Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2021

Kepler-1813 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1813, located approximately Distance pending from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.41 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.58 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.29 g
  • An orbital period of 2.818 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0364 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 1,059 K (786 °C)
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.286
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1813 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.41 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.126 R♃
Mass
2.58 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.008 M♃
Density
5.03 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.29 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.286
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

#901of 1176

top 76.5%

This planet

1.41R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1813 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.4111.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.58317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.515.031.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.292.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00298.200.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 424864367

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2129660087777589248

System

Kepler-1813

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.413 R⊕ · percentile 23 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.580 M⊕ · percentile 23 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 2.82 d · percentile 20 / cohort 1164
ESI 0.286 · percentile 33 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
2.818 days
Semi-major axis
0.0364 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
88.52 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 2.82 Earth days (0.8% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0364 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.037 %

Duration

1.776 h

Impact parameter b

0.720

Rp / R★

0.017372

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,965.2513

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 370 ppm lasting ≈ 1.78 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.017372

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

12.230

Impact parameter (b)

0.720

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,965.2513

Eq. Temperature

1,059K

(786 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

298.20

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.286

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the dayside is scorched. 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-1813

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,167 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

2.30 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.787 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.812 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.04

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.555 dex

Stellar density

3.954 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.016.816.80B15.64V15.54Gaia15.50Kepler14.96TESS16.16Sloan g15.45Sloan r15.21Sloan i15.09Sloan z14.09J13.63H13.64K13.50W113.52W212.66W38.99W4

Astrometric Data

Total Proper Motion

10.569 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-8.75 mas/yr

PM Declination

-5.93 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.251 · y = -0.613 · z = 0.749

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 292.23991° · Dec 48.51152°

Galactic ℓ, b

80.537° · 14.210°

Ecliptic λ, β

313.453° · 68.621°

HTM-20 index

-694132638

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