Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2018

HATS-43 b

A gas giant orbiting the k-type orange HATS-43, located approximately 1,181.6 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 13.23 Earth radii
  • A mass of 82.95 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 0.47 g
  • An orbital period of 4.389 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0494 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 1,003 K (730 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,181.58 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.108
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 20,837,076 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

HATS-43 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
13.23 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.180 R♃
Mass
82.95 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.261 M♃
Density
0.19 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
0.47 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.108
HZ Position Inner
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2018
Method Transit
Facility HATSouth
Telescope 0.18 m Takahashi Epsilon Astrograph

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#844of 1771

top 47.6%

This planet

13.23R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth HATS-43 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0013.2311.21
Mass (M⊕)1.0082.95317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.510.191.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.000.472.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00192.230.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Best measured mass 82.954 M⊕ Direct mass measurement (not derived).

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 78055054

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2905983466705521792

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2905983466705521792

System

HATS-43

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 13.227 R⊕ · percentile 52 / cohort 1771
Mass 82.954 M⊕ · percentile 3 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 4.39 d · percentile 33 / cohort 1533
Distance 362.27 pc · percentile 66 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.108 · percentile 29 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
4.389 days
Semi-major axis
0.0494 AU
Eccentricity
0.173
Inclination
89.24 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 4.39 Earth days (1.2% of a terrestrial year) on a mildly elliptical path at a mean orbital distance of 0.0494 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

2.496 %

Duration

2.988 h

Impact parameter b

0.172

Rp / R★

0.149200

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,457,636.0895

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 24,965 ppm lasting ≈ 2.99 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.149200

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

13.040

Impact parameter (b)

0.172

RV semi-amplitude (K)

37.500 m/s

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,457,636.0895

Long. of periastron (ω)

330.00°

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.13600

Eq. Temperature

1,003K

(730 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

192.23

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.108

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the dayside is scorched. 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

Brahm et al. 2018

Instrument

Apogee 4K CCD Sensor

Publication

2018-03

Observation locale

Ground

Host System: HATS-43

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,099 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

8.60 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.812 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.837 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.05

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.539 dex

Stellar density

2.180 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

22.08 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

1.11 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
362.27 parsec
Light-years 1,181.58 ly
V-band magnitude
13.56 mag
Voyager-speed travel 20,837,076 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 14 bands

8.814.514.51B13.56V13.40Gaia12.85TESS13.97Sloan g13.30Sloan r13.09Sloan i12.06J11.65H11.56K11.50W111.55W211.59W38.78W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

2.731 mas

Total Proper Motion

9.720 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

8.70 mas/yr

PM Declination

4.33 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.141 · y = 0.846 · z = -0.515

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 80.53824° · Dec -30.97082°

Galactic ℓ, b

234.248° · -31.633°

Ecliptic λ, β

76.136° · -53.956°

HTM-20 index

-55215170

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