Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

HD 12484 b

A gas giant orbiting the f-type yellow-white HD 12484, located approximately 157.7 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 13.20 Earth radii
  • A mass of 947.13 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 5.44 g
  • An orbital period of 58.830 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.2970 AU
  • Distance from Earth 157.65 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.395
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 2,780,211 years

HD 12484 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
13.20 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.170 R♃
Mass
947.13 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
2.980 M♃
Density
2.26 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
5.44 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.395
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2016
Method Radial Velocity
Facility Haute-Provence Observatory
Telescope 1.93 m Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#847of 1771

top 47.8%

This planet

13.20R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth HD 12484 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0013.2011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.00947.13317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.512.261.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.005.442.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i) 947.133 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD

HD 12484

HIP

HIP 9519

TIC

TIC 419940916

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2517585927699042944

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2517585931994600448

System

HD 12484

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 13.200 R⊕ · percentile 49 / cohort 1771
Mass 947.133 M⊕ · percentile 65 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 58.83 d · percentile 51 / cohort 1533
Distance 48.34 pc · percentile 19 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.395 · percentile 84 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
58.830 days
Semi-major axis
0.2970 AU
Eccentricity
0.070
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 58.83 Earth days (16.1% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.2970 AU.

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.395

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Discovery Paper

Instrument

SOPHIE Spectrograph

Publication

2016-04

Observation locale

Ground

Host System: HD 12484

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

5,920 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

Stellar Radius

1.002 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.010 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.05

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.650 dex

Stellar density

1.469 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

4.96 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

8.20 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
48.34 parsec
Light-years 157.65 ly
V-band magnitude
8.18 mag
Voyager-speed travel 2,780,211 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

6.58.88.76B8.18V8.04Gaia7.62TESS7.07J6.78H6.71K6.65W16.65W26.69W36.54W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

20.660 mas

Total Proper Motion

37.941 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

36.37 mas/yr

PM Declination

-10.81 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.860 · y = 0.509 · z = 0.049

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 30.61153° · Dec 2.81581°

Galactic ℓ, b

155.462° · -55.506°

Ecliptic λ, β

29.488° · -9.047°

HTM-20 index

-424993026

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