Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2024

BD-14 3065 b

A gas giant orbiting the f-type yellow-white BD-14 3065 A, located approximately 1,922.4 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 21.59 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3,932.00 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 8.44 g
  • An orbital period of 4.289 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0656 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 2,001 K (1728 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,922.44 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.063
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 33,902,201 years

BD-14 3065 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
21.59 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.926 R♃
Mass
3,932.00 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
12.370 M♃
Density
2.15 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
8.44 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.063
HZ Position Inner
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2024
Method Transit
Facility Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
Telescope 0.1 m TESS Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#19of 1771

top 1.0%

This planet

21.59R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth BD-14 3065 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0021.5911.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003,932.00317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.512.151.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.008.442.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00646.760.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Best measured mass 3,932.000 M⊕ Direct mass measurement (not derived).

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 293607057

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 3751877374435102720

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 3751877374435102720

System

BD-14 3065

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 21.590 R⊕ · percentile 99 / cohort 1771
Mass 3,932.000 M⊕ · percentile 91 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 4.29 d · percentile 32 / cohort 1533
Distance 589.42 pc · percentile 78 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.063 · percentile 10 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
4.289 days
Semi-major axis
0.0656 AU
Eccentricity
0.066
Inclination
80.78 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 4.29 Earth days (1.2% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0656 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.649 %

Duration

3.086 h

Impact parameter b

0.910

Rp / R★

0.084300

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,459,313.4858

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 6,490 ppm lasting ≈ 3.09 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.084300

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

6.010

Impact parameter (b)

0.910

RV semi-amplitude (K)

1,210.000 m/s

Occultation depth

0.048 ppm

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,459,313.4858

Long. of periastron (ω)

54.00°

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.11100

Eq. Temperature

2,001K

(1728 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

646.76

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.063

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the dayside is scorched.

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

Scaron Ubjak et al. 2024

Instrument

TESS CCD Array

Publication

2024-03

Observation locale

Space

Host System: BD-14 3065 A

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,935 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

2.24 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

2.350 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.410 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.34

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

3.850 dex

Stellar density

0.223 g/cm³

Rotational v·sin i

22.00 km/s

Rotation period

4.30 days

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
589.42 parsec
Light-years 1,922.44 ly
V-band magnitude
11.10 mag
Voyager-speed travel 33,902,201 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

9.111.511.48B11.10V10.91Gaia10.63TESS10.14J9.98H9.93K9.84W19.87W29.85W39.06W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.668 mas

Total Proper Motion

9.031 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-5.61 mas/yr

PM Declination

7.08 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.863 · y = 0.427 · z = -0.270

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 153.66967° · Dec -15.64284°

Galactic ℓ, b

256.574° · 32.772°

Ecliptic λ, β

161.745° · -24.663°

HTM-20 index

-1278034246

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