Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 1999

HD 130322 b

A gas giant orbiting the k-type orange HD 130322, located approximately 104.0 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 13.70 Earth radii
  • A mass of 365.49 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.95 g
  • An orbital period of 10.709 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0925 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 720 K (447 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 103.97 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.195
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 1,833,466 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

HD 130322 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
13.70 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.220 R♃
Mass
365.49 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
1.150 M♃
Density
0.78 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.95 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.195
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 1999
Method Radial Velocity
Facility La Silla Observatory
Telescope 1.2 m Leonhard Euler Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#554of 1771

top 31.2%

This planet

13.70R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth HD 130322 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0013.7011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.00365.49317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.510.781.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.952.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i) 365.490 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD

HD 130322

HIP

HIP 72339

TIC

TIC 189694184

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 3650718804281798912

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 3650718804281798912

System

HD 130322

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 13.700 R⊕ · percentile 66 / cohort 1771
Mass 365.490 M⊕ · percentile 39 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 10.71 d · percentile 45 / cohort 1533
Distance 31.88 pc · percentile 8 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.195 · percentile 39 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
10.709 days
Semi-major axis
0.0925 AU
Eccentricity
0.029
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 10.71 Earth days (2.9% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0925 AU.

Extended Orbital Architecture

RV semi-amplitude (K)

112.500 m/s

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,455,631.7770

Long. of periastron (ω)

193.00°

Angular separation (arcsec)

2.90000

Eq. Temperature

720K

(447 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.195

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Insufficient insolation data — the surface is too hot to retain surface water. Close-orbiting tidally-locked around a cool host.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Udry et al. 2000

Instrument

CORALIE Spectrograph

Publication

2000-04

Observation locale

Ground

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 1999 at La Silla Observatory (4 shown).

Host System: HD 130322

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,387 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

0.35 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.850 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.920 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.02

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.520 dex

Stellar density

1.958 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-12.50 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

0.50 km/s

Activity index (log R'HK)

-4.780

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
31.88 parsec
Light-years 103.97 ly
V-band magnitude
8.04 mag
Voyager-speed travel 1,833,466 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

6.18.88.77B8.04V7.83Gaia7.34TESS6.71J6.32H6.23K6.22W16.13W26.23W36.12W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

31.342 mas

Total Proper Motion

191.861 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-130.80 mas/yr

PM Declination

-140.37 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.744 · y = -0.668 · z = -0.005

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 221.88580° · Dec -0.28208°

Galactic ℓ, b

353.214° · 50.891°

Ecliptic λ, β

219.533° · 15.133°

HTM-20 index

1666767985

Observation Record

Photometric series

1

RV measurements

4

Archive notes

1

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