Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2021

Kepler-1953 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1953, located approximately 1,975.3 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.29 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.20 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.33 g
  • An orbital period of 6.246 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0607 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 731 K (458 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,975.30 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.430
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 34,834,446 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1953 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

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

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.430
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

#1114of 1176

top 94.6%

This planet

1.29R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1953 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.2911.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.20317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.515.691.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.332.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0067.620.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 158625687

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2130377106797534336

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2130377106797534336

System

Kepler-1953

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.286 R⊕ · percentile 5 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.200 M⊕ · percentile 6 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 6.25 d · percentile 49 / cohort 1164
Distance 605.63 pc · percentile 55 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.430 · percentile 65 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
6.246 days
Semi-major axis
0.0607 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
87.87 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 6.25 Earth days (1.7% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0607 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.021 %

Duration

2.372 h

Impact parameter b

0.271

Rp / R★

0.014123

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,970.1636

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 212 ppm lasting ≈ 2.37 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.014123

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

19.670

Impact parameter (b)

0.271

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,970.1636

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.10000

Eq. Temperature

731K

(458 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

67.62

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.430

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-1953

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,858 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

Stellar Radius

0.707 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.786 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.02

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.622 dex

Stellar density

1.971 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
605.63 parsec
Light-years 1,975.30 ly
V-band magnitude
15.94 mag
Voyager-speed travel 34,834,446 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.416.916.91B15.94V15.47Gaia15.49Kepler14.80TESS16.29Sloan g15.34Sloan r15.14Sloan i14.84Sloan z13.86J13.28H13.16K13.17W113.20W212.77W39.38W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.623 mas

Total Proper Motion

4.951 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-4.51 mas/yr

PM Declination

-2.05 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.212 · y = -0.655 · z = 0.725

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 287.96810° · Dec 46.47060°

Galactic ℓ, b

77.394° · 16.023°

Ecliptic λ, β

304.192° · 67.788°

HTM-20 index

-1715613904

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