Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2021

Kepler-1964 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange Kepler-1964, located approximately Distance pending from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.78 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3.83 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.21 g
  • An orbital period of 2.441 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0322 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 986 K (713 °C)
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.287
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1964 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.78 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.159 R♃
Mass
3.83 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.012 M♃
Density
3.73 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.21 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.287
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

#281of 1176

top 23.8%

This planet

1.78R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-1964 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.7811.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003.83317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.513.731.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.212.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00223.800.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 27991150

System

Kepler-1964

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.781 R⊕ · percentile 76 / cohort 1176
Mass 3.830 M⊕ · percentile 69 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 2.44 d · percentile 16 / cohort 1164
ESI 0.287 · percentile 33 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
2.441 days
Semi-major axis
0.0322 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
75.89 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 2.44 Earth days (0.7% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0322 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.051 %

Duration

0.540 h

Impact parameter b

1.147

Rp / R★

0.189316

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,966.8413

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 510 ppm lasting ≈ 0.54 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.189316

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

5.140

Impact parameter (b)

1.147

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,966.8413

Eq. Temperature

986K

(713 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

223.80

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.287

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-1964

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,803 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

Stellar Radius

0.698 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.752 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.08

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.623 dex

Stellar density

0.431 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Multi-band Host Photometry — 15 bands

9.317.016.92B16.36V15.88Kepler15.43TESS16.98Sloan g15.71Sloan r15.41Sloan i15.14Sloan z14.20J13.59H13.45K13.29W113.36W212.44W39.31W4

Astrometric Data

Total Proper Motion

14.665 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-12.22 mas/yr

PM Declination

-8.11 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.296 · y = -0.579 · z = 0.760

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 297.05880° · Dec 49.47844°

Galactic ℓ, b

82.877° · 11.816°

Ecliptic λ, β

322.290° · 68.063°

HTM-20 index

1881403630

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