Discovery Method
Transit
Consistent across records
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K2-180 b
Host star K2-180 • 2.47 R⊕ • 8.87 d orbit
Records
10
archive rows
Discovery
2018
Transit
Radius
2.47 R⊕
default parameter set
Mass
11.41 M⊕
default parameter set
K2-180
797.5 K equilibrium
Canonical Summary
Adopted planet values from the default parameter set
Values come from the archive's default parameter set. Missing values stay missing. Ranges and counts describe all source rows.
Selected source: Thygesen et al. 2023
Host Star
K2-180
Stable across source rows
Discovery Year
2018
Stable across source rows
Orbital Period
8.87 day
8.87 to 8.87
Semi-Major Axis
0.08 au
0.07 to 0.08
Radius
2.47 Rearth
2.13 to 4.40
Mass
11.41 Mearth
9.40 to 11.44
Density
4.16 g/cm**3
4.16 to 5.60
Equilibrium Temperature
797.5 K
672 to 802
Scale Comparison
Radius against familiar reference worlds
Current adopted radius: 2.47 R⊕ • circles scaled linearly by radius
Earth
1.0 R⊕ baseline
K2-180 b
2.47 R⊕
Jupiter
11.2 R⊕ reference
Provenance
Underlying measurements and references
Evidence Summary
Rows
10
Refs
10
Methods
1
Discoverystable
Facilitystable
Periodstable
Radiusdisputed
Massdisputed
Eq. Tempdisputed
| Year | Method | Facility | Telescope | Period | Radius | Mass | Eq. Temp | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Transit | K2 | 0.95 m Kepler Telescope | 8.87 day | 2.52 Rearth | — | 802 K | Castro-González et al. 2022 |
| 2018 | Transit | K2 | 0.95 m Kepler Telescope | 8.87 day | 2.51 Rearth | — | — | Kruse et al. 2019 |
| 2018 | Transit | K2 | 0.95 m Kepler Telescope | 8.87 day | 2.31 Rearth | — | 731 K | Livingston et al. 2018 |
| 2018 | Transit | K2 | 0.95 m Kepler Telescope | 8.87 day | 2.24 Rearth | 11.44 Mearth | 729 K | Korth et al. 2019 |
| 2018 | Transit | K2 | 0.95 m Kepler Telescope | 8.87 day | 2.13 Rearth | 9.40 Mearth | 672 K | Howard et al. 2025 |
| 2018 | Transit | K2 | 0.95 m Kepler Telescope | 8.87 day | 2.47 Rearth | 11.41 Mearth | 797.5 K | Thygesen et al. 2023 |
| 2018 | Transit | K2 | 0.95 m Kepler Telescope | 8.87 day | 4.29 Rearth | — | 691.3 K | ExoFOP |
| 2018 | Transit | K2 | 0.95 m Kepler Telescope | 8.87 day | — | — | — | Pope et al. 2016 |
| 2018 | Transit | K2 | 0.95 m Kepler Telescope | 8.87 day | 2.41 Rearth | — | — | Mayo et al. 2018 |
| 2018 | Transit | K2 | 0.95 m Kepler Telescope | 8.87 day | 4.40 Rearth | — | — | Petigura et al. 2018 |