Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2019

DMPP-3 A b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange DMPP-3 A, located approximately 152.9 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.44 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.67 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.29 g
  • An orbital period of 5.590 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0596 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 854 K (581 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 152.94 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.358
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 2,697,098 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

DMPP-3 A b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.44 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.129 R♃
Mass
2.67 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.008 M♃
Density
4.91 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.29 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.358
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2019
Method Radial Velocity
Facility La Silla Observatory
Telescope 3.6 m ESO Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#850of 1176

top 72.2%

This planet

1.44R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth DMPP-3 A b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.4411.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.67317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.911.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.292.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i) 2.670 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD

HD 42936

HIP

HIP 28941

TIC

TIC 141765836

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 5266148569447305600

System

DMPP-3

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.440 R⊕ · percentile 27 / cohort 1176
Mass 2.670 M⊕ · percentile 25 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 5.59 d · percentile 43 / cohort 1164
Distance 46.89 pc · percentile 10 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.358 · percentile 52 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
5.590 days
Semi-major axis
0.0596 AU
Eccentricity
0.420
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 5.59 Earth days (1.5% of a terrestrial year) on a highly eccentric trajectory at a mean orbital distance of 0.0596 AU.

Eq. Temperature

854K

(581 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.358

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Insufficient insolation data — the surface is too hot to retain surface water. Close-orbiting tidally-locked around a cool host.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Barnes et al. 2020

Instrument

HARPS Spectrograph

Publication

2019-12

Observation locale

Ground

Host System: DMPP-3 A

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,138 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

10.90 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.910 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.900 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.18

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.461 dex

Stellar density

1.643 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-0.67 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

1.97 km/s

Rotation period

21.80 days

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
46.89 parsec
Light-years 152.94 ly
V-band magnitude
9.10 mag
Voyager-speed travel 2,697,098 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

6.910.010.01B9.10V8.85Gaia8.31TESS7.59J7.19H7.06K7.00W17.07W27.04W36.95W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

21.298 mas

Total Proper Motion

383.640 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-1.41 mas/yr

PM Declination

-383.64 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.009 · y = 0.300 · z = -0.954

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 91.62435° · Dec -72.51431°

Galactic ℓ, b

283.212° · -29.145°

Ecliptic λ, β

265.307° · -84.020°

HTM-20 index

1280912498

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