Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2021

Kepler-1802 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1802, located approximately 2,076.6 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.67 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3.43 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.23 g
  • An orbital period of 15.450 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0662 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 581 K (308 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 2,076.62 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.500
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 36,621,116 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

1 sibling around Kepler-1802

Kepler-1802 b shares its host star with 1 other confirmed planet. Side-by-side measurements below.

Planet Type Radius (R⊕) Mass (M⊕) Period (d) Eq. T (K) Year
Kepler-1802 b this Super-Earth 1.67 3.43 15.450 581 2021
Kepler-1802 c Sub-Neptune 2.32 6.00 33.136 357 2021

Kepler-1802 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.67 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.149 R♃
Mass
3.43 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.011 M♃
Density
4.04 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.23 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.500
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

#451of 1176

top 38.3%

This planet

1.67R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1802 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.6711.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003.43317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.041.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.232.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0026.910.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 239291510

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2076053604520641024

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2076053604520641024

System

Kepler-1802

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.671 R⊕ · percentile 62 / cohort 1176
Mass 3.430 M⊕ · percentile 55 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 15.45 d · percentile 79 / cohort 1164
Distance 636.69 pc · percentile 58 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.500 · percentile 73 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
15.450 days
Semi-major axis
0.0662 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
84.97 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 15.45 Earth days (4.2% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0662 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.038 %

Duration

2.042 h

Impact parameter b

0.470

Rp / R★

0.018704

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,455,009.8020

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 382 ppm lasting ≈ 2.04 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.018704

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

10.880

Impact parameter (b)

0.470

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,455,009.8020

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.10400

Eq. Temperature

581K

(308 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

26.91

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.500

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-1802

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,245 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

13.90 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.637 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.649 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.00

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.641 dex

Stellar density

0.408 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
636.69 parsec
Light-years 2,076.62 ly
V-band magnitude
15.91 mag
Voyager-speed travel 36,621,116 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 12 bands

12.417.117.13B15.91V16.51Gaia15.67Kepler16.08TESS16.82Sloan g15.61Sloan r15.18Sloan i14.94Sloan z13.73J13.11H12.40K

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.554 mas

Total Proper Motion

8.141 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-1.54 mas/yr

PM Declination

-7.99 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.361 · y = -0.620 · z = 0.696

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 300.24209° · Dec 44.14129°

Galactic ℓ, b

79.269° · 7.282°

Ecliptic λ, β

321.083° · 62.321°

HTM-20 index

-1720396576

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