Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2021

Kepler-1794 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1794, located approximately 1,830.5 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.79 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3.87 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.20 g
  • An orbital period of 9.763 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0821 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 703 K (430 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,830.48 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.406
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 32,280,549 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1794 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.79 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.160 R♃
Mass
3.87 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.012 M♃
Density
3.68 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.20 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.406
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

#267of 1176

top 22.6%

This planet

1.79R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1794 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.7911.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003.87317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.513.681.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.202.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0057.590.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 240219049

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2082304396854334720

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2082304396854334720

System

Kepler-1794

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.794 R⊕ · percentile 77 / cohort 1176
Mass 3.870 M⊕ · percentile 70 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 9.76 d · percentile 64 / cohort 1164
Distance 561.23 pc · percentile 51 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.406 · percentile 61 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
9.763 days
Semi-major axis
0.0821 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
88.68 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 9.76 Earth days (2.7% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0821 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.055 %

Duration

3.064 h

Impact parameter b

0.499

Rp / R★

0.021757

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,972.1574

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 553 ppm lasting ≈ 3.06 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.021757

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

24.380

Impact parameter (b)

0.499

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,972.1574

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.14600

Eq. Temperature

703K

(430 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

57.59

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.406

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-1794

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,052 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

14.00 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.816 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.773 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.02

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.503 dex

Stellar density

2.033 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
561.23 parsec
Light-years 1,830.48 ly
V-band magnitude
15.50 mag
Voyager-speed travel 32,280,549 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.416.616.63B15.50V15.28Gaia15.25Kepler14.65TESS16.04Sloan g15.19Sloan r14.91Sloan i14.77Sloan z13.72J13.25H13.03K13.01W113.10W212.90W39.44W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.754 mas

Total Proper Motion

22.596 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-5.49 mas/yr

PM Declination

-21.92 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.355 · y = -0.600 · z = 0.717

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 300.61966° · Dec 45.78881°

Galactic ℓ, b

80.831° · 7.905°

Ecliptic λ, β

323.222° · 63.679°

HTM-20 index

-1230319073

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