Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2021

Kepler-1848 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1848, located approximately 1,010.1 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.41 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.57 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.29 g
  • An orbital period of 5.604 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0584 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 774 K (501 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,010.09 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.398
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 17,812,973 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1848 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

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

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.398
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

#919of 1176

top 78.1%

This planet

1.41R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1848 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.4111.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.57317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.515.051.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.292.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0094.300.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 268712158

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2085242360641759616

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2085242360641759616

System

Kepler-1848

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.409 R⊕ · percentile 22 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.570 M⊕ · percentile 21 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 5.60 d · percentile 43 / cohort 1164
Distance 309.70 pc · percentile 33 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.398 · percentile 60 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
5.604 days
Semi-major axis
0.0584 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
88.25 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 5.60 Earth days (1.5% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0583 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.022 %

Duration

1.027 h

Impact parameter b

0.293

Rp / R★

0.013585

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,966.8251

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 225 ppm lasting ≈ 1.03 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.013585

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

40.950

Impact parameter (b)

0.293

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,966.8251

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.18800

Eq. Temperature

774K

(501 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

94.30

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.398

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-1848

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,847 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

1.82 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.737 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.756 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.00

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.581 dex

Stellar density

10.721 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
309.70 parsec
Light-years 1,010.09 ly
V-band magnitude
13.89 mag
Voyager-speed travel 17,812,973 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

8.915.215.17B13.89V13.68Gaia13.71Kepler13.04TESS14.55Sloan g13.64Sloan r13.36Sloan i13.20Sloan z12.14J11.63H11.53K11.50W111.60W211.43W38.92W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

3.200 mas

Total Proper Motion

47.240 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-20.99 mas/yr

PM Declination

-42.32 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.343 · y = -0.610 · z = 0.714

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 299.38149° · Dec 45.59208°

Galactic ℓ, b

80.213° · 8.548°

Ecliptic λ, β

321.273° · 63.893°

HTM-20 index

-1929897727

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