Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2018

HATS-69 b

A gas giant orbiting the k-type orange HATS-69, located approximately 1,352.0 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 10.59 Earth radii
  • A mass of 183.39 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.63 g
  • An orbital period of 2.225 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0321 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 1,296 K (1023 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,352.04 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.098
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 23,843,176 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

HATS-69 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
10.59 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.945 R♃
Mass
183.39 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.577 M♃
Density
0.46 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.63 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.098
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

#1716of 1771

top 96.8%

This planet

10.59R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth HATS-69 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0010.5911.21
Mass (M⊕)1.00183.39317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.510.461.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.632.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00466.600.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Best measured mass 183.388 M⊕ Direct mass measurement (not derived).

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 467971286

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 6445881974332225536

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 6445881974332225536

System

HATS-69

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 10.593 R⊕ · percentile 3 / cohort 1771
Mass 183.388 M⊕ · percentile 17 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 2.23 d · percentile 9 / cohort 1533
Distance 414.54 pc · percentile 71 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.098 · percentile 26 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
2.225 days
Semi-major axis
0.0321 AU
Eccentricity
0.519
Inclination
88.49 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 2.23 Earth days (0.6% of a terrestrial year) on a highly eccentric trajectory at a mean orbital distance of 0.0321 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

1.314 %

Duration

2.358 h

Impact parameter b

0.207

Rp / R★

0.110500

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,457,755.3939

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 13,145 ppm lasting ≈ 2.36 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.110500

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

7.859

Impact parameter (b)

0.207

RV semi-amplitude (K)

52.000 m/s

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,457,755.3939

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.07750

Eq. Temperature

1,296K

(1023 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

466.60

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.098

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

Hartman et al. 2019

Instrument

Apogee 4K CCD Sensor

Publication

2019-02

Observation locale

Ground

Host System: HATS-69

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,137 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

8.00 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.879 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.892 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.38

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.501 dex

Stellar density

1.854 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

4.09 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

2.55 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
414.54 parsec
Light-years 1,352.04 ly
V-band magnitude
14.07 mag
Voyager-speed travel 23,843,176 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 14 bands

9.014.914.91B14.07V13.76Gaia13.19TESS14.40Sloan g13.62Sloan r13.60Sloan i12.41J11.97H11.88K11.81W111.90W211.58W38.96W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

2.384 mas

Total Proper Motion

19.890 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

8.70 mas/yr

PM Declination

-17.89 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.161 · y = -0.459 · z = -0.874

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 289.29743° · Dec -60.89176°

Galactic ℓ, b

335.641° · -26.547°

Ecliptic λ, β

281.807° · -38.241°

HTM-20 index

-640825053

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