Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2021

Kepler-1945 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1945, located approximately Distance pending from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.29 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.21 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.33 g
  • An orbital period of 6.080 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0597 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 808 K (535 °C)
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.388
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1945 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.29 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.115 R♃
Mass
2.21 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.007 M♃
Density
5.67 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.33 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.388
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

#1111of 1176

top 94.4%

This planet

1.29R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1945 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.2911.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.21317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.515.671.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.332.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00100.720.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 123408849

System

Kepler-1945

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.289 R⊕ · percentile 5 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.210 M⊕ · percentile 6 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 6.08 d · percentile 48 / cohort 1164
ESI 0.388 · percentile 58 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
6.080 days
Semi-major axis
0.0597 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
89.58 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 6.08 Earth days (1.7% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0597 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.018 %

Duration

1.308 h

Impact parameter b

0.254

Rp / R★

0.012218

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,969.8826

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 184 ppm lasting ≈ 1.31 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.012218

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

34.800

Impact parameter (b)

0.254

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,969.8826

Eq. Temperature

808K

(535 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

100.72

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.388

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-1945

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,991 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

Stellar Radius

0.804 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.767 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.04

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.513 dex

Stellar density

21.567 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Multi-band Host Photometry — 15 bands

9.414.514.51B13.59V13.47Kepler12.75TESS14.22Sloan g13.40Sloan r13.15Sloan i13.02Sloan z11.95J11.42H11.37K11.32W111.38W211.34W39.39W4

Astrometric Data

Total Proper Motion

12.054 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-7.04 mas/yr

PM Declination

-9.78 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.153 · y = -0.724 · z = 0.673

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 281.89808° · Dec 42.28582°

Galactic ℓ, b

71.658° · 18.533°

Ecliptic λ, β

291.035° · 64.858°

HTM-20 index

-1816938093

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