Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2021

Kepler-1841 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1841, located approximately 2,060.3 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.49 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.82 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.27 g
  • An orbital period of 25.886 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.1606 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 542 K (269 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 2,060.33 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.552
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 36,333,873 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1841 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.49 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.133 R♃
Mass
2.82 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.009 M♃
Density
4.69 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.27 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.552
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

#780of 1176

top 66.2%

This planet

1.49R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1841 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.4911.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.82317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.691.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.272.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0020.350.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 121329580

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2100629063795587840

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2100629063795587840

System

Kepler-1841

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.489 R⊕ · percentile 34 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.820 M⊕ · percentile 32 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 25.89 d · percentile 90 / cohort 1164
Distance 631.70 pc · percentile 57 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.552 · percentile 77 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
25.886 days
Semi-major axis
0.1606 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
87.16 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 25.89 Earth days (7.1% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1606 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.022 %

Duration

4.350 h

Impact parameter b

0.909

Rp / R★

0.017770

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,990.0383

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 217 ppm lasting ≈ 4.35 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.017770

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

17.700

Impact parameter (b)

0.909

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,990.0383

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.25400

Eq. Temperature

542K

(269 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

20.35

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.552

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-1841

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,190 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

11.60 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.899 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.823 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.12

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.446 dex

Stellar density

0.183 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
631.70 parsec
Light-years 2,060.33 ly
V-band magnitude
14.86 mag
Voyager-speed travel 36,333,873 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

8.915.715.68B14.86V14.53Gaia14.56Kepler14.00TESS15.14Sloan g14.50Sloan r14.30Sloan i14.19Sloan z13.25J12.83H12.75K12.70W112.71W212.51W38.94W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.554 mas

Total Proper Motion

5.181 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

1.15 mas/yr

PM Declination

-5.05 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.231 · y = -0.722 · z = 0.652

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 287.70690° · Dec 40.68522°

Galactic ℓ, b

71.819° · 13.900°

Ecliptic λ, β

299.751° · 62.307°

HTM-20 index

-1781494440

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