Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2021

Kepler-1890 b

A rocky terrestrial orbiting the f-type yellow-white Kepler-1890, located approximately 1,727.3 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 0.87 Earth radii
  • A mass of 0.59 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 0.78 g
  • An orbital period of 4.821 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0571 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 1,328 K (1055 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,727.31 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.227
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 30,461,095 years

Kepler-1890 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
0.87 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.078 R♃
Mass
0.59 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.002 M♃
Density
4.92 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
0.78 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Rocky Terrestrial

ESI Score 0.227
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

#440of 570

top 77.0%

This planet

0.87R⊕

Rocky Terrestrial median

1.01R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1890 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.000.8711.21
Mass (M⊕)1.000.59317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.921.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.000.782.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00493.000.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 137754713

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2053515849540816768

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2053515849540816768

System

Kepler-1890

Percentile among Rocky Terrestrial cohort

Radius 0.869 R⊕ · percentile 23 / cohort 570
Mass 0.587 M⊕ · percentile 19 / cohort 570
Orbital period 4.82 d · percentile 53 / cohort 567
Distance 529.60 pc · percentile 67 / cohort 566
ESI 0.227 · percentile 18 / cohort 570

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
4.821 days
Semi-major axis
0.0571 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
77.54 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 4.82 Earth days (1.3% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0571 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.004 %

Duration

3.468 h

Impact parameter b

0.016

Rp / R★

0.005900

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,968.7852

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 41 ppm lasting ≈ 3.47 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.005900

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

10.700

Impact parameter (b)

0.016

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,968.7852

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.10800

Eq. Temperature

1,328K

(1055 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

493.00

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.227

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the dayside is scorched.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Valizadegan et al. 2022

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2022-02

Observation locale

Space

Host System: Kepler-1890

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,046 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

2.65 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.396 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.024 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.16

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.158 dex

Stellar density

0.064 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
529.60 parsec
Light-years 1,727.31 ly
V-band magnitude
12.92 mag
Voyager-speed travel 30,461,095 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.013.413.42B12.92V12.78Gaia12.86Kepler12.40TESS13.17Sloan g12.81Sloan r12.73Sloan i12.72Sloan z11.85J11.62H11.57K11.48W111.50W211.39W39.03W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.860 mas

Total Proper Motion

11.270 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

6.16 mas/yr

PM Declination

9.44 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.291 · y = -0.700 · z = 0.652

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 292.57782° · Dec 40.66790°

Galactic ℓ, b

73.425° · 10.556°

Ecliptic λ, β

307.218° · 61.222°

HTM-20 index

1788434302

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