Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2021

Kepler-1907 c

A rocky terrestrial orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1907, located approximately 952.7 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.16 Earth radii
  • A mass of 1.63 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.22 g
  • An orbital period of 14.864 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.1037 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 620 K (347 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 952.74 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.512
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 16,801,526 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

1 sibling around Kepler-1907

Kepler-1907 c shares its host star with 1 other confirmed planet. Side-by-side measurements below.

Planet Type Radius (R⊕) Mass (M⊕) Period (d) Eq. T (K) Year
Kepler-1907 b Rocky Terrestrial 0.87 0.59 5.652 856 2021
Kepler-1907 c this Rocky Terrestrial 1.16 1.63 14.864 620 2021

Kepler-1907 c Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.16 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.103 R♃
Mass
1.63 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.005 M♃
Density
5.81 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.22 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Rocky Terrestrial

ESI Score 0.512
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

#158of 570

top 27.5%

This planet

1.16R⊕

Rocky Terrestrial median

1.01R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1907 c Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.1611.21
Mass (M⊕)1.001.63317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.515.811.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.222.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0020.600.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 123130285

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2119409512668086656

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2119409512668086656

System

Kepler-1907

Percentile among Rocky Terrestrial cohort

Radius 1.155 R⊕ · percentile 72 / cohort 570
Mass 1.630 M⊕ · percentile 66 / cohort 570
Orbital period 14.86 d · percentile 87 / cohort 567
Distance 292.11 pc · percentile 40 / cohort 566
ESI 0.512 · percentile 71 / cohort 570

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
14.864 days
Semi-major axis
0.1037 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
84.23 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 14.86 Earth days (4.1% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1037 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.022 %

Duration

2.806 h

Impact parameter b

0.980

Rp / R★

0.018700

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,975.9516

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 221 ppm lasting ≈ 2.81 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.018700

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

8.230

Impact parameter (b)

0.980

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,975.9516

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.35500

Eq. Temperature

620K

(347 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

20.60

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.512

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-1907

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,159 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

14.00 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.800 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.752 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.16

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.508 dex

Stellar density

0.086 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-15.61 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

4.10 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
292.11 parsec
Light-years 952.74 ly
V-band magnitude
13.99 mag
Voyager-speed travel 16,801,526 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.414.914.92B13.99V13.73Gaia13.75Kepler13.15TESS14.42Sloan g13.69Sloan r13.47Sloan i13.36Sloan z12.27J11.81H11.73K11.68W111.72W211.27W39.43W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

3.394 mas

Total Proper Motion

33.281 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

4.13 mas/yr

PM Declination

-33.02 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.126 · y = -0.666 · z = 0.735

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 280.70858° · Dec 47.32792°

Galactic ℓ, b

76.432° · 20.971°

Ecliptic λ, β

291.567° · 69.967°

HTM-20 index

1974548741

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