Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2021

Kepler-1825 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1825, located approximately 1,403.3 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.42 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.61 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.29 g
  • An orbital period of 1.026 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0187 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 1,520 K (1247 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,403.30 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.189
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 24,747,181 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1825 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.42 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.127 R♃
Mass
2.61 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.008 M♃
Density
4.99 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.29 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.189
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

#881of 1176

top 74.8%

This planet

1.42R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1825 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.4211.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.61317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.991.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.292.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.001,264.700.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 63282889

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2125760772871583744

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2125760772871583744

System

Kepler-1825

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.422 R⊕ · percentile 25 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.610 M⊕ · percentile 24 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 1.03 d · percentile 6 / cohort 1164
Distance 430.25 pc · percentile 42 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.189 · percentile 10 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
1.026 days
Semi-major axis
0.0187 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
83.02 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 1.03 Earth days (0.3% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0187 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.027 %

Duration

0.807 h

Impact parameter b

0.039

Rp / R★

0.015592

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,964.6555

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 271 ppm lasting ≈ 0.81 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.015592

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

10.012

Impact parameter (b)

0.039

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,964.6555

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.04350

Eq. Temperature

1,520K

(1247 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

1,264.70

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.189

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-1825

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,123 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

14.00 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.847 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.828 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.14

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.501 dex

Stellar density

4.739 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
430.25 parsec
Light-years 1,403.30 ly
V-band magnitude
14.61 mag
Voyager-speed travel 24,747,181 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.415.415.37B14.61V14.38Gaia14.41Kepler13.77TESS15.17Sloan g14.36Sloan r14.09Sloan i13.96Sloan z12.89J12.40H12.35K12.28W112.34W212.17W39.38W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

2.295 mas

Total Proper Motion

15.645 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

15.63 mas/yr

PM Declination

-0.78 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.282 · y = -0.679 · z = 0.678

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 292.51406° · Dec 42.65176°

Galactic ℓ, b

75.210° · 11.488°

Ecliptic λ, β

308.512° · 63.112°

HTM-20 index

-246435871

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