Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2021

Kepler-1805 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1805, located approximately 722.9 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.55 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3.00 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.26 g
  • An orbital period of 8.848 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0699 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 479 K (206 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 722.89 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.610
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 12,748,145 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1805 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.55 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.138 R♃
Mass
3.00 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.009 M♃
Density
4.47 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.26 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.610
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

#669of 1176

top 56.8%

This planet

1.55R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1805 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.5511.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003.00317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.471.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.262.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0012.480.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 120422519

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2103822075621468672

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2103822075621468672

System

Kepler-1805

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.545 R⊕ · percentile 43 / cohort 1176
Mass 3.000 M⊕ · percentile 39 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 8.85 d · percentile 61 / cohort 1164
Distance 221.64 pc · percentile 26 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.610 · percentile 81 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
8.848 days
Semi-major axis
0.0699 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
89.92 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 8.85 Earth days (2.4% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0699 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.052 %

Duration

2.088 h

Impact parameter b

0.388

Rp / R★

0.019043

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,973.1516

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 519 ppm lasting ≈ 2.09 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.019043

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

17.000

Impact parameter (b)

0.388

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,973.1516

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.31500

Eq. Temperature

479K

(206 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

12.48

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.610

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-1805

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

3,867 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

1.65 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.552 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.581 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.10

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.718 dex

Stellar density

9.045 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
221.64 parsec
Light-years 722.89 ly
V-band magnitude
15.54 mag
Voyager-speed travel 12,748,145 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 17 bands

9.419.019.05U17.16B15.54V14.90Gaia14.91Kepler13.90TESS16.44Sloan g15.02Sloan r14.26Sloan i13.86Sloan z12.66J11.96H11.81K11.66W111.69W211.61W39.37W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

4.483 mas

Total Proper Motion

6.866 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

1.49 mas/yr

PM Declination

6.70 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.197 · y = -0.730 · z = 0.655

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 285.08654° · Dec 40.89905°

Galactic ℓ, b

71.213° · 15.807°

Ecliptic λ, β

295.676° · 63.000°

HTM-20 index

1783756477

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