Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2021

Kepler-1809 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1809, located approximately 1,335.9 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.51 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.90 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.27 g
  • An orbital period of 3.757 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0444 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 877 K (604 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,335.94 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.343
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 23,559,327 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1809 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.51 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.135 R♃
Mass
2.90 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.009 M♃
Density
4.60 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.27 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.343
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

#727of 1176

top 61.7%

This planet

1.51R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1809 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.5111.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.90317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.601.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.272.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00158.200.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 122300177

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2101194109695286272

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2101194109695286272

System

Kepler-1809

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.513 R⊕ · percentile 38 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.900 M⊕ · percentile 35 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 3.76 d · percentile 29 / cohort 1164
Distance 409.60 pc · percentile 40 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.343 · percentile 49 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
3.757 days
Semi-major axis
0.0444 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
88.70 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 3.76 Earth days (1.0% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0444 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.026 %

Duration

0.921 h

Impact parameter b

0.019

Rp / R★

0.014476

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,966.9604

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 259 ppm lasting ≈ 0.92 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.014476

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

31.630

Impact parameter (b)

0.019

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,966.9604

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.10800

Eq. Temperature

877K

(604 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

158.20

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.343

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-1809

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,901 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

1.55 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.716 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.807 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.04

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.618 dex

Stellar density

22.783 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
409.60 parsec
Light-years 1,335.94 ly
V-band magnitude
14.27 mag
Voyager-speed travel 23,559,327 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.415.515.47B14.27V14.14Gaia14.10Kepler13.53TESS14.84Sloan g14.04Sloan r13.78Sloan i13.68Sloan z12.66J12.16H12.16K12.01W112.08W211.86W39.42W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

2.413 mas

Total Proper Motion

42.444 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-25.71 mas/yr

PM Declination

-33.77 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.263 · y = -0.713 · z = 0.650

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 290.26517° · Dec 40.54849°

Galactic ℓ, b

72.526° · 12.079°

Ecliptic λ, β

303.644° · 61.641°

HTM-20 index

-1011451963

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