Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2021

Kepler-1761 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1761, located approximately 721.4 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.39 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.51 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.30 g
  • An orbital period of 4.044 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0413 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 613 K (340 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 721.41 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.503
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 12,722,090 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1761 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.39 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.124 R♃
Mass
2.51 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.008 M♃
Density
5.12 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.30 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.503
HZ Position Inner
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2021
Method Transit
Facility Kepler
Telescope 0.95 m Kepler Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#938of 1176

top 79.7%

This planet

1.39R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1761 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.3911.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.51317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.515.121.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.302.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0033.340.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 48421337

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2131817707546856320

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2131817707546856320

System

Kepler-1761

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.391 R⊕ · percentile 20 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.510 M⊕ · percentile 19 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 4.04 d · percentile 31 / cohort 1164
Distance 221.19 pc · percentile 26 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.503 · percentile 73 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
4.044 days
Semi-major axis
0.0413 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
78.42 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 4.04 Earth days (1.1% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0413 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.042 %

Duration

1.457 h

Impact parameter b

0.154

Rp / R★

0.017623

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,964.6297

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 416 ppm lasting ≈ 1.46 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.017623

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

4.900

Impact parameter (b)

0.154

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,964.6297

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.18700

Eq. Temperature

613K

(340 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

33.34

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.503

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the surface is too hot to retain surface water. Close-orbiting tidally-locked around a cool host.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Valizadegan et al. 2022

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2022-02

Observation locale

Space

Host System: Kepler-1761

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

3,871 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.90 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.532 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.573 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.07

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.744 dex

Stellar density

0.136 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
221.19 parsec
Light-years 721.41 ly
V-band magnitude
15.62 mag
Voyager-speed travel 12,722,090 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.717.117.10B15.62V14.90Gaia14.96Kepler13.91TESS16.40Sloan g15.03Sloan r14.35Sloan i13.88Sloan z12.64J11.98H11.79K11.70W111.71W211.49W39.68W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

4.492 mas

Total Proper Motion

17.652 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

15.64 mas/yr

PM Declination

8.18 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.160 · y = -0.634 · z = 0.756

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 284.13297° · Dec 49.14263°

Galactic ℓ, b

79.038° · 19.387°

Ecliptic λ, β

299.597° · 71.133°

HTM-20 index

1770420569

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