Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2020

HATS-47 b

A gas giant orbiting the k-type orange HATS-47, located approximately 980.7 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 12.52 Earth radii
  • A mass of 117.28 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 0.75 g
  • An orbital period of 3.923 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0427 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 853 K (580 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 980.65 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.145
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 17,293,819 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

HATS-47 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
12.52 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.117 R♃
Mass
117.28 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.369 M♃
Density
0.33 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
0.75 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.145
HZ Position Inner
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2020
Method Transit
Facility HATSouth
Telescope 0.18 m Takahashi Epsilon Astrograph

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#1232of 1771

top 69.5%

This planet

12.52R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth HATS-47 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0012.5211.21
Mass (M⊕)1.00117.28317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.510.331.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.000.752.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0087.730.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Best measured mass 117.279 M⊕ Direct mass measurement (not derived).

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 158297421

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 6658373007402886400

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 6658373007402886400

System

HATS-47

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 12.520 R⊕ · percentile 30 / cohort 1771
Mass 117.279 M⊕ · percentile 7 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 3.92 d · percentile 28 / cohort 1533
Distance 300.67 pc · percentile 60 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.145 · percentile 36 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
3.923 days
Semi-major axis
0.0427 AU
Eccentricity
0.088
Inclination
87.08 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 3.92 Earth days (1.1% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0427 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

3.151 %

Duration

2.002 h

Impact parameter b

0.713

Rp / R★

0.174600

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,457,365.3580

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 31,511 ppm lasting ≈ 2.00 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.174600

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

13.980

Impact parameter (b)

0.713

RV semi-amplitude (K)

61.700 m/s

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,457,365.3580

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.14200

Eq. Temperature

853K

(580 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

87.73

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.145

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

Hartman et al. 2020

Instrument

Apogee 4K CCD Sensor

Publication

2020-04

Observation locale

Ground

Host System: HATS-47

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,512 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

8.10 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.656 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.674 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.11

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.633 dex

Stellar density

3.360 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

3.20 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

2.47 km/s

Rotation period

6.42 days

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
300.67 parsec
Light-years 980.65 ly
V-band magnitude
14.60 mag
Voyager-speed travel 17,293,819 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 14 bands

8.616.116.10B14.60V14.40Gaia13.67TESS15.48Sloan g14.40Sloan r14.01Sloan i12.65J12.03H11.93K11.87W111.95W211.65W38.64W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

3.298 mas

Total Proper Motion

6.200 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

3.83 mas/yr

PM Declination

4.88 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.194 · y = -0.617 · z = -0.762

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 287.48440° · Dec -49.66494°

Galactic ℓ, b

347.515° · -23.206°

Ecliptic λ, β

282.601° · -26.988°

HTM-20 index

854869513

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