Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2010

GJ 1148 b

A gas giant orbiting the m-type red dwarf GJ 1148, located approximately 35.9 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 11.90 Earth radii
  • A mass of 96.70 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 0.68 g
  • An orbital period of 41.380 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.1660 AU
  • Distance from Earth 35.92 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.272
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 633,516 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

1 sibling around GJ 1148

GJ 1148 b shares its host star with 1 other confirmed planet. Side-by-side measurements below.

Planet Type Radius (R⊕) Mass (M⊕) Period (d) Eq. T (K) Year
GJ 1148 b this Gas Giant 11.90 96.70 41.380 2010
GJ 1148 c Neptune-like 9.71 68.06 532.580 2017

GJ 1148 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
11.90 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.070 R♃
Mass
96.70 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.304 M♃
Density
0.32 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
0.68 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.272
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2010
Method Radial Velocity
Facility W. M. Keck Observatory
Telescope 10 m Keck I Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#1526of 1771

top 86.1%

This planet

11.90R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth GJ 1148 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0011.9011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.0096.70317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.510.321.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.000.682.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i) 96.700 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HIP

HIP 57050

TIC

TIC 115869504

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 772430527947893632

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 772430527947893632

System

GJ 1148

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 11.900 R⊕ · percentile 13 / cohort 1771
Mass 96.700 M⊕ · percentile 5 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 41.38 d · percentile 50 / cohort 1533
Distance 11.01 pc · percentile 1 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.272 · percentile 50 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
41.380 days
Semi-major axis
0.1660 AU
Eccentricity
0.380
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 41.38 Earth days (11.3% of a terrestrial year) on a highly eccentric trajectory at a mean orbital distance of 0.1660 AU.

Extended Orbital Architecture

RV semi-amplitude (K)

38.370 m/s

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,796.9200

Long. of periastron (ω)

258.10°

Angular separation (arcsec)

15.10000

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.272

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

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

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Haghighipour et al. 2010

Instrument

HIRES Spectrometer

Publication

2010-05

Observation locale

Ground

Host System: GJ 1148

Spectral Class

M-type red dwarf

Effective Temperature

3,287 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

Stellar Radius

0.359 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.344 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.16

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.866 dex

Stellar density

10.526 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-9.10 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
11.01 parsec
Light-years 35.92 ly
V-band magnitude
11.94 mag
Voyager-speed travel 633,516 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 17 bands

6.315.915.90U13.34B11.94V10.58Gaia9.30TESS13.02Sloan g11.40Sloan r9.96Sloan i10.32Sloan z9.18Ic7.61J7.07H6.82K6.67W16.44W26.45W36.25W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

90.762 mas

Total Proper Motion

582.643 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-575.65 mas/yr

PM Declination

-89.97 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.732 · y = 0.058 · z = 0.679

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 175.43261° · Dec 42.75159°

Galactic ℓ, b

160.618° · 68.916°

Ecliptic λ, β

156.142° · 36.837°

HTM-20 index

-1865794278

Observation Record

Photometric series

1

RV measurements

1

Stellar spectra

3

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