Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2021

HATS-74 A b

A gas giant orbiting the k-type orange HATS-74 A, located approximately 976.5 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 11.57 Earth radii
  • A mass of 464.03 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 3.47 g
  • An orbital period of 1.732 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0238 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 895 K (622 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 976.48 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.182
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 17,220,139 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

HATS-74 A b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
11.57 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.032 R♃
Mass
464.03 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
1.460 M♃
Density
1.64 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
3.47 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.182
HZ Position Inner
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2021
Method Transit
Facility HATSouth
Telescope 0.18 m Takahashi Epsilon Astrograph

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#1582of 1771

top 89.3%

This planet

11.57R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth HATS-74 A b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0011.5711.21
Mass (M⊕)1.00464.03317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.511.641.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.003.472.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00106.900.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Best measured mass 464.029 M⊕ Direct mass measurement (not derived).

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 219189765

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 3545653561942122368

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 3545653561942122368

System

HATS-74

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 11.568 R⊕ · percentile 11 / cohort 1771
Mass 464.029 M⊕ · percentile 46 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 1.73 d · percentile 5 / cohort 1533
Distance 299.39 pc · percentile 60 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.182 · percentile 39 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
1.732 days
Semi-major axis
0.0238 AU
Eccentricity
0.044
Inclination
87.39 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 1.73 Earth days (0.5% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0238 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

3.636 %

Duration

1.653 h

Impact parameter b

0.406

Rp / R★

0.184400

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,458,392.0265

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 36,359 ppm lasting ≈ 1.65 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.184400

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

8.900

Impact parameter (b)

0.406

RV semi-amplitude (K)

346.000 m/s

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,458,392.0265

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.07960

Eq. Temperature

895K

(622 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

106.90

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.182

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

Jord Aacute N et al. 2022

Instrument

Apogee 4K CCD Sensor

Publication

2022-03

Observation locale

Ground

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 2021 at HATSouth (3 shown).

Host System: HATS-74 A

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

3,777 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

11.00 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.576 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.601 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.51

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.696 dex

Stellar density

4.430 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

15.85 km/s

Rotation period

4.75 days

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
299.39 parsec
Light-years 976.48 ly
V-band magnitude
17.26 mag
Voyager-speed travel 17,220,139 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

8.518.618.61B17.26V15.98Gaia14.76TESS13.25J12.60H12.36K12.24W112.21W212.19W38.51W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

3.314 mas

Total Proper Motion

55.537 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-38.86 mas/yr

PM Declination

39.68 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.931 · y = 0.147 · z = -0.335

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 171.01479° · Dec -19.55696°

Galactic ℓ, b

276.219° · 38.740°

Ecliptic λ, β

179.881° · -21.448°

HTM-20 index

-358014710

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