Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2021

BD+60 1417 b

A gas giant orbiting the k-type orange BD+60 1417, located approximately 146.6 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 14.68 Earth radii
  • A mass of 4,767.43 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 22.11 g
  • Semi-major axis 1,662.0000 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 1,303 K (1030 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 146.62 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.115
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 2,585,664 years

BD+60 1417 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
14.68 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.310 R♃
Mass
4,767.43 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
15.000 M♃
Density
8.27 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
22.11 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.115
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2021
Method Imaging
Facility Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) Satellite Mission
Telescope 0.4 m Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#261of 1771

top 14.7%

This planet

14.68R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

HAT-P-16 b 14.68 R⊕ Kepler-17 b 14.68 R⊕ CoRoT-18 b 14.68 R⊕
Metric Earth BD+60 1417 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0014.6811.21
Mass (M⊕)1.004,767.43317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.518.271.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.0022.112.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00—0.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Best measured mass 4,767.426 M⊕ Direct mass measurement (not derived).

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 159527171

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 1579929906250111232

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 1579929906250111232

System

BD+60 1417

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 14.684 R⊕ · percentile 85 / cohort 1771
Mass 4,767.426 M⊕ · percentile 94 / cohort 1747
Distance 44.95 pc · percentile 16 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.115 · percentile 30 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
— days
Semi-major axis
1,662.0000 AU
Eccentricity
—
Inclination
— °

Year Length

Orbital period for this planet has not yet been measured.

Eq. Temperature

1,303K

(1030 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

—

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.115

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Insufficient insolation data — the dayside is scorched.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Faherty et al. 2021

Instrument

HgCdTe and Si:As 1K Infrared Detectors

Publication

2021-12

Observation locale

Space

Host System: BD+60 1417

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,993 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

0.10 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.797 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.000 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

—

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.554 dex

Stellar density

2.309 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-10.15 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

11.00 km/s

Rotation period

7.50 days

Distance
44.95 parsec
Light-years 146.62 ly
V-band magnitude
9.37 mag
Voyager-speed travel 2,585,664 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

7.110.410.38B9.37V9.17Gaia8.61TESS7.82J7.36H7.29K7.18W17.29W27.24W37.14W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

22.216 mas

Total Proper Motion

141.885 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-126.50 mas/yr

PM Declination

-64.26 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.491 · y = -0.094 · z = 0.866

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 190.88755° · Dec 60.01436°

Galactic ℓ, b

124.746° · 57.086°

Ecliptic λ, β

152.273° · 56.328°

HTM-20 index

1123128366

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