Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2009

BD-08 2823 b

A unclassified orbiting the k-type orange BD-08 2823, located approximately 134.8 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A mass of 2,948.49 Earth masses
  • An orbital period of 5.600 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0600 AU
  • Distance from Earth 134.81 light-years
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 2,377,444 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

1 sibling around BD-08 2823

BD-08 2823 b shares its host star with 1 other confirmed planet. Side-by-side measurements below.

Planet Type Radius (R⊕) Mass (M⊕) Period (d) Eq. T (K) Year
BD-08 2823 b this Unclassified 2,948.49 5.600 2009
BD-08 2823 c Gas Giant 12.50 104.00 237.600 2009

BD-08 2823 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
R♃
Mass
2,948.49 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
9.277 M♃
Density
g/cm³
Surface Gravity
g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Unclassified

ESI Score
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2009
Method Radial Velocity
Facility La Silla Observatory
Telescope 3.6 m ESO Telescope
Metric Earth BD-08 2823 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002,948.49317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.511.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.002.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Best measured mass 2,948.494 M⊕ Direct mass measurement (not derived).
Minimum mass (M sin i) 12.713 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HIP

HIP 49067

TIC

TIC 33355302

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 3770419611540574080

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 3770419611540574080

System

BD-08 2823

Percentile among Unclassified cohort

Mass 2,948.494 M⊕ · percentile 76 / cohort 42
Orbital period 5.60 d · percentile 14 / cohort 43
Distance 41.33 pc · percentile 65 / cohort 43

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
5.600 days
Semi-major axis
0.0600 AU
Eccentricity
0.150
Inclination
0.27 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 5.60 Earth days (1.5% of a terrestrial year) on a mildly elliptical path at a mean orbital distance of 0.0600 AU.

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Insufficient insolation data. Close-orbiting tidally-locked around a cool host.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Hebrard et al. 2010

Instrument

HARPS Spectrograph

Publication

2010-03

Observation locale

Ground

Host System: BD-08 2823

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,816 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.50 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.710 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.500 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.06

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.430 dex

Stellar density

3.318 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

53.35 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

1.40 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
41.33 parsec
Light-years 134.81 ly
V-band magnitude
9.86 mag
Voyager-speed travel 2,377,444 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

7.210.910.88B9.86V9.50Gaia8.86TESS7.96J7.50H7.32K7.21W17.34W27.29W37.40W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

24.164 mas

Total Proper Motion

376.379 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-375.52 mas/yr

PM Declination

25.46 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.856 · y = 0.490 · z = -0.165

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 150.19720° · Dec -9.51657°

Galactic ℓ, b

248.495° · 34.755°

Ecliptic λ, β

155.832° · -20.284°

HTM-20 index

-1585389109

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