Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2022

Kepler-451 d

A gas giant orbiting the b-type blue-white 2MASS J19383260+4603591, located approximately 1,292.7 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 13.50 Earth radii
  • A mass of 559.38 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 3.07 g
  • An orbital period of 43.000 days
  • Distance from Earth 1,292.66 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.354
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 22,796,068 years

2 siblings around 2MASS J19383260+4603591

Kepler-451 d shares its host star with 2 other confirmed planets. Side-by-side measurements below.

Planet Type Radius (R⊕) Mass (M⊕) Period (d) Eq. T (K) Year
Kepler-451 d this Gas Giant 13.50 559.38 43.000 2022
2MASS J19383260+4603591 b Gas Giant 13.40 603.88 406.000 2015
Kepler-451 c Gas Giant 13.50 511.70 1,460.000 2022
brightness_6

Circumbinary planet

Kepler-451 d orbits a binary-star pair rather than a single host — a minority architecture in the confirmed catalogue.

Kepler-451 d Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
13.50 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.200 R♃
Mass
559.38 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
1.760 M♃
Density
1.25 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
3.07 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.354
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2022
Method Eclipse Timing Variations
Facility Multiple Observatories
Telescope Multiple Telescopes

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#671of 1771

top 37.8%

This planet

13.50R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Kepler-451 d Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0013.5011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.00559.38317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.511.251.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.003.072.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i) 559.378 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 271164763

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2080063931448749824

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2080063931448749824

System

2MASS J19383260+4603591

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 13.500 R⊕ · percentile 59 / cohort 1771
Mass 559.378 M⊕ · percentile 51 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 43.00 d · percentile 50 / cohort 1533
Distance 396.33 pc · percentile 69 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.354 · percentile 72 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
43.000 days
Semi-major axis
AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 43.00 Earth days (11.8% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit.

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.354

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Esmer et al. 2022

Instrument

Multiple Instruments

Publication

2022-04

Observation locale

Space

Host System: 2MASS J19383260+4603591

Spectral Class

B-type blue-white

Effective Temperature

29,564 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

Stellar Radius

0.203 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.480 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.09

Distance
396.33 parsec
Light-years 1,292.66 ly
V-band magnitude
12.65 mag
Voyager-speed travel 22,796,068 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.213.012.11B12.65V12.14Gaia12.26Kepler12.46TESS11.96Sloan g12.36Sloan r12.72Sloan i13.04Sloan z12.76J12.89H12.96K12.86W112.92W212.67W39.20W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

2.495 mas

Total Proper Motion

6.965 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

5.20 mas/yr

PM Declination

-4.64 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.289 · y = -0.631 · z = 0.720

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 294.63592° · Dec 46.06641°

Galactic ℓ, b

79.019° · 11.674°

Ecliptic λ, β

314.705° · 65.725°

HTM-20 index

-1217063556

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