Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2021

Kepler-1904 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1904, located approximately 883.4 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.39 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.51 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.30 g
  • An orbital period of 4.577 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0436 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 567 K (294 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 883.41 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.541
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 15,578,874 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1904 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.39 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.124 R♃
Mass
2.51 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.008 M♃
Density
5.13 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.30 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.541
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

#939of 1176

top 79.8%

This planet

1.39R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1904 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.3911.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.51317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.515.131.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.302.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0024.380.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 299089587

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2133344104564365184

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2133344104564365184

System

Kepler-1904

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.391 R⊕ · percentile 20 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.510 M⊕ · percentile 19 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 4.58 d · percentile 37 / cohort 1164
Distance 270.85 pc · percentile 29 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.541 · percentile 76 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
4.577 days
Semi-major axis
0.0436 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
89.48 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 4.58 Earth days (1.3% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0436 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.071 %

Duration

0.949 h

Impact parameter b

0.327

Rp / R★

0.024527

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,965.0992

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 710 ppm lasting ≈ 0.95 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.024527

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

38.200

Impact parameter (b)

0.327

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,965.0992

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.16100

Eq. Temperature

567K

(294 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

24.38

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.541

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-1904

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

3,805 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

5.83 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.497 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.526 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.10

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.767 dex

Stellar density

41.380 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
270.85 parsec
Light-years 883.41 ly
V-band magnitude
16.37 mag
Voyager-speed travel 15,578,874 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.518.618.57B16.37V15.74Gaia15.74Kepler14.76TESS17.16Sloan g15.83Sloan r15.13Sloan i14.75Sloan z13.52J12.92H12.75K12.62W112.56W212.33W39.54W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

3.663 mas

Total Proper Motion

23.450 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

5.38 mas/yr

PM Declination

22.82 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.203 · y = -0.594 · z = 0.779

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 288.87440° · Dec 51.15422°

Galactic ℓ, b

82.151° · 17.256°

Ecliptic λ, β

310.838° · 71.925°

HTM-20 index

268327061

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