Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2021

TOI-1685 b

A super-earth orbiting the m-type red dwarf TOI-1685, located approximately 122.7 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.42 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3.07 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.52 g
  • An orbital period of 0.669 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0116 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 1,000 K (727 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 122.68 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.304
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 2,163,542 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

TOI-1685 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.42 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.127 R♃
Mass
3.07 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.010 M♃
Density
5.30 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.52 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.304
HZ Position Inner
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2021
Method Transit
Facility Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
Telescope 0.1 m TESS Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#882of 1176

top 74.9%

This planet

1.42R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth TOI-1685 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.4211.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003.07317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.515.301.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.522.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00213.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Best measured mass 3.070 M⊕ Direct mass measurement (not derived).

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 28900646

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 252366608956186240

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 252366608956186240

System

TOI-1685

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.421 R⊕ · percentile 25 / cohort 1176
Mass 3.070 M⊕ · percentile 42 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 0.67 d · percentile 2 / cohort 1164
Distance 37.62 pc · percentile 8 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.304 · percentile 38 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
0.669 days
Semi-major axis
0.0116 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
86.62 °

Year Length

A year here lasts roughly 16.1 hours long on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0116 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.125 %

Duration

0.904 h

Impact parameter b

0.310

Rp / R★

0.028180

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,458,816.2257

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 1,254 ppm lasting ≈ 0.90 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.028180

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

5.410

Impact parameter (b)

0.310

RV semi-amplitude (K)

3.760 m/s

Occultation depth

0.012 ppm

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,458,816.2257

Long. of periastron (ω)

90.00°

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.30900

Eq. Temperature

1,000K

(727 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

213.00

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.304

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the dayside is scorched. Close-orbiting tidally-locked around a cool host.

Detection Signatures

Transit photometry

A transit dip has been observed from at least one telescope.

Radial velocity

Stellar wobble has been measured spectroscopically.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Bluhm et al. 2021

Instrument

TESS CCD Array

Publication

2021-06

Observation locale

Space

Host System: TOI-1685

Spectral Class

M-type red dwarf

Effective Temperature

3,470 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

1.40 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.462 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.466 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.01

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.680 dex

Stellar density

5.797 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-43.76 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

2.00 km/s

Rotation period

18.66 days

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
37.62 parsec
Light-years 122.68 ly
V-band magnitude
13.38 mag
Voyager-speed travel 2,163,542 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

8.214.914.88B13.38V12.30Gaia11.11TESS9.62J9.01H8.76K8.64W18.54W28.45W38.22W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

26.556 mas

Total Proper Motion

94.783 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

37.82 mas/yr

PM Declination

-86.91 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.267 · y = 0.680 · z = 0.682

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 68.59395° · Dec 43.03704°

Galactic ℓ, b

160.159° · -3.156°

Ecliptic λ, β

73.413° · 20.822°

HTM-20 index

337127432

Observation Record

Transmission spectra

9

Emission spectra

1

Archive notes

1

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