Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2021

Kepler-1853 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1853, located approximately 1,834.1 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.52 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.92 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.27 g
  • An orbital period of 48.888 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.2395 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 386 K (113 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,834.13 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.734
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 32,344,911 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1853 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.52 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.135 R♃
Mass
2.92 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.009 M♃
Density
4.58 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.27 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.734
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

#723of 1176

top 61.4%

This planet

1.52R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1853 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.5211.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.92317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.581.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.272.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.005.230.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 164784178

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2107294505140214784

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2107294505140214784

System

Kepler-1853

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.519 R⊕ · percentile 39 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.920 M⊕ · percentile 36 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 48.89 d · percentile 96 / cohort 1164
Distance 562.35 pc · percentile 51 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.734 · percentile 86 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
48.888 days
Semi-major axis
0.2395 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
86.81 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 48.89 Earth days (13.4% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.2395 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.037 %

Duration

6.468 h

Impact parameter b

0.268

Rp / R★

0.017299

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,986.8116

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 372 ppm lasting ≈ 6.47 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.017299

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

17.770

Impact parameter (b)

0.268

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,986.8116

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.42600

Eq. Temperature

386K

(113 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

5.23

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.734

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-1853

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,821 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

14.00 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.788 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.765 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.16

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.529 dex

Stellar density

0.044 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
562.35 parsec
Light-years 1,834.13 ly
V-band magnitude
15.23 mag
Voyager-speed travel 32,344,911 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.016.416.35B15.23V15.05Gaia14.99Kepler14.42TESS15.79Sloan g14.93Sloan r14.64Sloan i14.46Sloan z13.40J12.88H12.78K12.65W112.67W212.27W39.02W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.750 mas

Total Proper Motion

4.808 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-0.34 mas/yr

PM Declination

-4.80 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.176 · y = -0.667 · z = 0.724

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 284.74788° · Dec 46.37354°

Galactic ℓ, b

76.441° · 18.049°

Ecliptic λ, β

298.441° · 68.361°

HTM-20 index

-1386467236

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