Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2021

Kepler-1804 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1804, located approximately 1,417.0 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.60 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3.18 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.25 g
  • An orbital period of 12.288 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.1017 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 913 K (640 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,417.00 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.323
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 24,988,870 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1804 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.60 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.142 R♃
Mass
3.18 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.010 M♃
Density
4.30 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.25 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.323
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

#586of 1176

top 49.7%

This planet

1.60R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1804 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.6011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003.18317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.301.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.252.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00164.610.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 185185751

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2081919842663938688

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2081919842663938688

System

Kepler-1804

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.596 R⊕ · percentile 50 / cohort 1176
Mass 3.180 M⊕ · percentile 46 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 12.29 d · percentile 70 / cohort 1164
Distance 434.46 pc · percentile 42 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.323 · percentile 43 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
12.288 days
Semi-major axis
0.1017 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
88.64 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 12.29 Earth days (3.4% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1017 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.037 %

Duration

2.813 h

Impact parameter b

0.248

Rp / R★

0.017196

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,974.6178

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 367 ppm lasting ≈ 2.81 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.017196

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

32.940

Impact parameter (b)

0.248

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,974.6178

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.23400

Eq. Temperature

913K

(640 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

164.61

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.323

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-1804

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,109 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

14.00 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.671 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.929 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.10

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

3.960 dex

Stellar density

2.384 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
434.46 parsec
Light-years 1,417.00 ly
V-band magnitude
14.68 mag
Voyager-speed travel 24,988,870 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.715.615.60B14.68V14.43Gaia14.41Kepler13.80TESS15.20Sloan g14.37Sloan r14.08Sloan i13.94Sloan z12.92J12.47H12.36K12.28W112.34W211.01W39.70W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

2.273 mas

Total Proper Motion

0.780 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-0.35 mas/yr

PM Declination

0.70 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.370 · y = -0.607 · z = 0.703

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 301.34287° · Dec 44.67218°

Galactic ℓ, b

80.138° · 6.888°

Ecliptic λ, β

323.110° · 62.453°

HTM-20 index

-1750075457

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