Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2021

Kepler-1930 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1930, located approximately 899.2 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.53 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.95 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.26 g
  • An orbital period of 13.027 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.1023 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 643 K (370 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 899.19 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.467
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 15,857,259 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1930 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.53 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.136 R♃
Mass
2.95 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.009 M♃
Density
4.53 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.26 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.467
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

#702of 1176

top 59.6%

This planet

1.53R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1930 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.5311.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.95317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.531.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.262.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0031.600.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 169560572

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2073655432234604288

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2073655432234604288

System

Kepler-1930

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.530 R⊕ · percentile 40 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.950 M⊕ · percentile 37 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 13.03 d · percentile 72 / cohort 1164
Distance 275.69 pc · percentile 30 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.467 · percentile 70 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
13.027 days
Semi-major axis
0.1023 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
89.01 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 13.03 Earth days (3.6% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1023 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.036 %

Duration

0.785 h

Impact parameter b

0.388

Rp / R★

0.017934

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,972.1478

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 357 ppm lasting ≈ 0.79 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.017934

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

54.000

Impact parameter (b)

0.388

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,972.1478

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.37100

Eq. Temperature

643K

(370 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

31.60

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.467

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-1930

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,083 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

0.62 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.844 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.844 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.22

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.512 dex

Stellar density

17.540 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
275.69 parsec
Light-years 899.19 ly
V-band magnitude
13.45 mag
Voyager-speed travel 15,857,259 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

8.714.614.56B13.45V13.37Gaia13.34Kepler12.76TESS14.06Sloan g13.26Sloan r13.03Sloan i12.91Sloan z11.88J11.46H11.29K11.23W111.29W210.26W38.70W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

3.598 mas

Total Proper Motion

9.684 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

5.82 mas/yr

PM Declination

-7.74 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.354 · y = -0.679 · z = 0.643

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 297.57715° · Dec 40.02768°

Galactic ℓ, b

74.686° · 6.900°

Ecliptic λ, β

314.011° · 59.325°

HTM-20 index

-1757047164

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