Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2021

Kepler-1899 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1899, located approximately 2,320.6 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.55 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3.02 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.26 g
  • An orbital period of 4.096 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0457 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 851 K (578 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 2,320.63 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.351
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 40,924,295 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1899 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.55 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.138 R♃
Mass
3.02 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.010 M♃
Density
4.45 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.26 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.351
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

#651of 1176

top 55.3%

This planet

1.55R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1899 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.5511.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003.02317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.451.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.262.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00124.300.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 137348756

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2051903999855859712

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2051903999855859712

System

Kepler-1899

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.551 R⊕ · percentile 45 / cohort 1176
Mass 3.020 M⊕ · percentile 39 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 4.10 d · percentile 32 / cohort 1164
Distance 711.51 pc · percentile 61 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.351 · percentile 50 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
4.096 days
Semi-major axis
0.0457 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
86.60 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 4.10 Earth days (1.1% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0457 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.041 %

Duration

1.704 h

Impact parameter b

0.752

Rp / R★

0.020221

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,964.6199

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 406 ppm lasting ≈ 1.70 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.020221

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

10.000

Impact parameter (b)

0.752

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,964.6199

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.06420

Eq. Temperature

851K

(578 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

124.30

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.351

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-1899

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,791 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

13.90 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.742 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.759 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.07

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.577 dex

Stellar density

2.299 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
711.51 parsec
Light-years 2,320.63 ly
V-band magnitude
16.14 mag
Voyager-speed travel 40,924,295 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 17 bands

9.319.219.25U17.39B16.14V15.95Gaia15.96Kepler15.26TESS16.85Sloan g15.86Sloan r15.53Sloan i15.34Sloan z14.25J13.74H13.70K13.62W113.78W212.97W39.33W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.378 mas

Total Proper Motion

23.378 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-13.62 mas/yr

PM Declination

-19.00 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.296 · y = -0.731 · z = 0.615

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 292.03338° · Dec 37.97446°

Galactic ℓ, b

70.791° · 9.713°

Ecliptic λ, β

304.785° · 58.781°

HTM-20 index

1248598498

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