Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2021

Kepler-1816 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1816, located approximately 1,428.0 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.97 Earth radii
  • A mass of 4.53 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.17 g
  • An orbital period of 91.501 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.3565 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 310 K (37 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,427.99 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.796
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 25,182,531 years

Kepler-1816 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.97 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.176 R♃
Mass
4.53 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.014 M♃
Density
3.27 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.17 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.796
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

#47of 1176

top 3.9%

This planet

1.97R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1816 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.9711.21
Mass (M⊕)1.004.53317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.513.271.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.172.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.002.000.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 27911400

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2135427576021495168

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2135427576021495168

System

Kepler-1816

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.968 R⊕ · percentile 96 / cohort 1176
Mass 4.530 M⊕ · percentile 88 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 91.50 d · percentile 98 / cohort 1164
Distance 437.82 pc · percentile 43 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.796 · percentile 89 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
91.501 days
Semi-major axis
0.3565 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
89.99 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 91.50 Earth days (25.1% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.3565 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.070 %

Duration

4.842 h

Impact parameter b

0.225

Rp / R★

0.023662

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,998.6730

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 705 ppm lasting ≈ 4.84 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.023662

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

147.710

Impact parameter (b)

0.225

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,998.6730

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.81400

Eq. Temperature

310K

(37 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

2.00

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.796

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — liquid water is physically possible with adequate atmospheric pressure.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Valizadegan et al. 2022

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2022-02

Observation locale

Space

Host System: Kepler-1816

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,051 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

0.70 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.706 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.786 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.24

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.628 dex

Stellar density

7.282 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
437.82 parsec
Light-years 1,427.99 ly
V-band magnitude
14.73 mag
Voyager-speed travel 25,182,531 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.515.515.53B14.73V14.46Gaia14.45Kepler13.87TESS15.12Sloan g14.39Sloan r14.16Sloan i14.06Sloan z13.04J12.56H12.53K12.43W112.49W211.98W39.47W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

2.255 mas

Total Proper Motion

31.570 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-2.50 mas/yr

PM Declination

-31.47 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.286 · y = -0.565 · z = 0.774

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 296.85098° · Dec 50.69877°

Galactic ℓ, b

83.915° · 12.507°

Ecliptic λ, β

323.629° · 69.189°

HTM-20 index

-55909266

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