Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2021

Kepler-1783 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1783, located approximately 861.3 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.32 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.30 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.32 g
  • An orbital period of 8.277 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0760 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 1,088 K (815 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 861.31 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.283
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 15,189,135 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1783 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.32 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.118 R♃
Mass
2.30 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.007 M♃
Density
5.50 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.32 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.283
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

#1069of 1176

top 90.8%

This planet

1.32R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1783 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.3211.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.30317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.515.501.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.322.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0065.500.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 168811794

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2076839480469187712

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2076839480469187712

System

Kepler-1783

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.319 R⊕ · percentile 9 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.300 M⊕ · percentile 9 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 8.28 d · percentile 59 / cohort 1164
Distance 264.08 pc · percentile 29 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.283 · percentile 32 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
8.277 days
Semi-major axis
0.0760 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
89.35 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 8.28 Earth days (2.3% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0760 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.019 %

Duration

2.704 h

Impact parameter b

0.151

Rp / R★

0.012223

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,971.2551

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 186 ppm lasting ≈ 2.70 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.012223

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

22.820

Impact parameter (b)

0.151

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,971.2551

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.28800

Eq. Temperature

1,088K

(815 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

65.50

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.283

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

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

Detection Signatures

Transit photometry

A transit dip has been observed from at least one telescope.

Transit timing variations

Gravitational interactions from neighbours have been detected.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Valizadegan et al. 2022

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2022-02

Observation locale

Space

Host System: Kepler-1783

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,129 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

1.15 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.781 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.887 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.16

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

3.884 dex

Stellar density

3.279 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
264.08 parsec
Light-years 861.31 ly
V-band magnitude
13.31 mag
Voyager-speed travel 15,189,135 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.414.314.33B13.31V13.10Gaia13.12Kepler12.51TESS13.81Sloan g13.06Sloan r12.82Sloan i12.68Sloan z11.69J11.17H11.12K11.05W111.13W211.63W39.36W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

3.758 mas

Total Proper Motion

2.582 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

2.09 mas/yr

PM Declination

-1.51 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.341 · y = -0.668 · z = 0.661

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 297.02110° · Dec 41.37717°

Galactic ℓ, b

75.658° · 7.933°

Ecliptic λ, β

314.212° · 60.735°

HTM-20 index

-833990954

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