Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2025

BEBOP-4 AB b

A unclassified orbiting the g-type yellow (sun-like) BEBOP-4 A, located approximately 764.2 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A mass of 8,358.89 Earth masses
  • An orbital period of 1,823.500 days
  • Semi-major axis 3.6340 AU
  • Distance from Earth 764.16 light-years
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 13,476,030 years
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Circumbinary planet

BEBOP-4 AB b orbits a binary-star pair rather than a single host — a minority architecture in the confirmed catalogue.

BEBOP-4 AB b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
R♃
Mass
8,358.89 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
26.300 M♃
Density
g/cm³
Surface Gravity
g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Unclassified

ESI Score
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2025
Method Radial Velocity
Facility Haute-Provence Observatory
Telescope 1.93 m Telescope
Metric Earth BEBOP-4 AB b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.008,358.89317.83
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 8,358.887 M⊕ Direct mass measurement (not derived).
Minimum mass (M sin i) 6,642.614 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD

HD 111605

TIC

TIC 356710041

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 3961485079994112896

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 3961485079994112896

System

BEBOP-4

Percentile among Unclassified cohort

Mass 8,358.887 M⊕ · percentile 98 / cohort 42
Orbital period 1,823.50 d · percentile 84 / cohort 43
Distance 234.29 pc · percentile 84 / cohort 43

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
1,823.500 days
Semi-major axis
3.6340 AU
Eccentricity
0.428
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts about 4.99 Earth years on a highly eccentric trajectory at a mean orbital distance of 3.6340 AU.

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Triaud et al. 2025

Instrument

SOPHIE Spectrograph

Publication

2025-10

Observation locale

Ground

Host System: BEBOP-4 A

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,701 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

Stellar Radius

2.756 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.507 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.26

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

3.566 dex

Stellar density

0.069 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

5.28 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[M/H]

Distance
234.29 parsec
Light-years 764.16 ly
V-band magnitude
9.65 mag
Voyager-speed travel 13,476,030 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

8.010.310.32B9.65V9.43Gaia9.00TESS8.40J8.13H8.08K8.03W18.09W28.03W38.08W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

4.240 mas

Total Proper Motion

12.860 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

12.58 mas/yr

PM Declination

2.66 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.876 · y = -0.195 · z = 0.441

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 192.57727° · Dec 26.15954°

Galactic ℓ, b

288.273° · 88.999°

Ecliptic λ, β

180.255° · 28.832°

HTM-20 index

367798568

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