Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2000

BD-10 3166 b

A gas giant orbiting the k-type orange BD-10 3166, located approximately 275.3 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 14.10 Earth radii
  • A mass of 187.52 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 0.94 g
  • An orbital period of 3.488 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0400 AU
  • Distance from Earth 275.30 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.267
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 4,854,883 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

BD-10 3166 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
14.10 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.260 R♃
Mass
187.52 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.590 M♃
Density
0.37 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
0.94 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.267
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2000
Method Radial Velocity
Facility W. M. Keck Observatory
Telescope 10 m Keck I Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#371of 1771

top 20.9%

This planet

14.10R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth BD-10 3166 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0014.1011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.00187.52317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.510.371.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.000.942.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i) 187.520 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 148563075

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 3758629479636689536

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 3758629479636689536

System

BD-10 3166

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 14.100 R⊕ · percentile 77 / cohort 1771
Mass 187.520 M⊕ · percentile 18 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 3.49 d · percentile 23 / cohort 1533
Distance 84.41 pc · percentile 31 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.267 · percentile 49 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
3.488 days
Semi-major axis
0.0400 AU
Eccentricity
0.020
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 3.49 Earth days (1.0% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0400 AU.

Extended Orbital Architecture

RV semi-amplitude (K)

60.900 m/s

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,451,705.9630

Long. of periastron (ω)

35.00°

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.47400

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.267

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

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

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Butler et al. 2000

Instrument

HIRES Spectrometer

Publication

2000-12

Observation locale

Ground

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 2000 at W. M. Keck Observatory (4 shown).

Host System: BD-10 3166

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,393 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

0.25 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.910 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.470 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.38

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.690 dex

Stellar density

1.533 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

26.40 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

0.92 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
84.41 parsec
Light-years 275.30 ly
V-band magnitude
10.01 mag
Voyager-speed travel 4,854,883 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

7.610.910.88B10.01V9.84Gaia9.33TESS8.61J8.30H8.12K8.11W18.14W28.15W37.57W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

11.819 mas

Total Proper Motion

185.026 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-184.84 mas/yr

PM Declination

-8.37 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.947 · y = 0.261 · z = -0.187

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 164.61912° · Dec -10.77042°

Galactic ℓ, b

263.285° · 43.238°

Ecliptic λ, β

170.131° · -15.968°

HTM-20 index

-573649377

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