Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2017

HATS-22 b

A gas giant orbiting the k-type orange HATS-22, located approximately 748.6 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 10.68 Earth radii
  • A mass of 870.85 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 7.63 g
  • An orbital period of 4.723 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0503 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 858 K (585 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 748.59 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.214
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 13,201,326 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

HATS-22 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
10.68 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.953 R♃
Mass
870.85 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
2.740 M♃
Density
3.89 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
7.63 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.214
HZ Position Inner
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2017
Method Transit
Facility HATSouth
Telescope Multiple Telescopes

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#1709of 1771

top 96.4%

This planet

10.68R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth HATS-22 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0010.6811.21
Mass (M⊕)1.00870.85317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.513.891.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.007.632.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00111.300.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Best measured mass 870.854 M⊕ Direct mass measurement (not derived).

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 14661418

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 3483606402800185728

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 3483606402800185728

System

HATS-22

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 10.682 R⊕ · percentile 4 / cohort 1771
Mass 870.854 M⊕ · percentile 63 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 4.72 d · percentile 35 / cohort 1533
Distance 229.52 pc · percentile 54 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.214 · percentile 40 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
4.723 days
Semi-major axis
0.0503 AU
Eccentricity
0.079
Inclination
87.96 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 4.72 Earth days (1.3% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0503 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

2.268 %

Duration

2.191 h

Impact parameter b

0.536

Rp / R★

0.142600

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,457,078.5803

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 22,675 ppm lasting ≈ 2.19 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.142600

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

15.700

Impact parameter (b)

0.536

RV semi-amplitude (K)

399.000 m/s

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,457,078.5803

Long. of periastron (ω)

56.00°

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.21900

Eq. Temperature

858K

(585 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

111.30

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.214

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the surface is too hot to retain surface water. Close-orbiting tidally-locked around a cool host.

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

Bento et al. 2017

Instrument

Multiple Instruments

Publication

2017-06

Observation locale

Ground

Host System: HATS-22

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,803 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

Stellar Radius

0.689 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.759 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.00

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.644 dex

Stellar density

3.280 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-7.37 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

0.50 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
229.52 parsec
Light-years 748.59 ly
V-band magnitude
13.40 mag
Voyager-speed travel 13,201,326 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 14 bands

8.814.514.49B13.40V13.12Gaia12.48TESS13.94Sloan g13.06Sloan r12.82Sloan i11.56J11.01H10.94K10.90W110.97W210.77W38.80W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

4.328 mas

Total Proper Motion

26.818 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

24.92 mas/yr

PM Declination

-9.91 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.865 · y = 0.091 · z = -0.493

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 174.00987° · Dec -29.54336°

Galactic ℓ, b

283.888° · 30.525°

Ecliptic λ, β

187.426° · -29.243°

HTM-20 index

-1908817806

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