Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2022

HD 142 A d

A gas giant orbiting the f-type yellow-white HD 142, located approximately 85.4 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 10.90 Earth radii
  • A mass of 82.64 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 0.70 g
  • An orbital period of 108.453 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.4740 AU
  • Distance from Earth 85.40 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.289
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 1,506,116 years

2 siblings around HD 142

HD 142 A d shares its host star with 2 other confirmed planets. Side-by-side measurements below.

Planet Type Radius (R⊕) Mass (M⊕) Period (d) Eq. T (K) Year
HD 142 A d this Gas Giant 10.90 82.64 108.453 2022
HD 142 b Gas Giant 12.70 2,256.58 351.434 2001
HD 142 c Gas Giant 12.40 3,464.65 10,159.643 2012

HD 142 A d Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
10.90 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.971 R♃
Mass
82.64 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.260 M♃
Density
0.35 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
0.70 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.289
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2022
Method Radial Velocity
Facility Multiple Observatories
Telescope Multiple Telescopes

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#1672of 1771

top 94.4%

This planet

10.90R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth HD 142 A d Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0010.9011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.0082.64317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.510.351.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.000.702.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i) 82.635 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD

HD 142

HIP

HIP 522

TIC

TIC 389757979

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 4976894960284258048

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 4976894960284258048

System

HD 142

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 10.900 R⊕ · percentile 5 / cohort 1771
Mass 82.635 M⊕ · percentile 3 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 108.45 d · percentile 54 / cohort 1533
Distance 26.19 pc · percentile 6 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.289 · percentile 55 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
108.453 days
Semi-major axis
0.4740 AU
Eccentricity
0.130
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 108.45 Earth days (29.7% of a terrestrial year) on a mildly elliptical path at a mean orbital distance of 0.4740 AU.

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.289

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Feng et al. 2022

Instrument

Multiple Instruments

Publication

2022-09

Observation locale

Ground

Host System: HD 142

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,245 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.12 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.470 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.210 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.09

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.620 dex

Stellar density

0.550 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

5.44 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

10.40 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
26.19 parsec
Light-years 85.40 ly
V-band magnitude
5.70 mag
Voyager-speed travel 1,506,116 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 12 bands

3.66.26.20B5.70V5.58Gaia5.25TESS5.12Ic4.69J4.65H4.47K4.31W13.64W24.32W34.38W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

38.161 mas

Total Proper Motion

576.468 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

575.03 mas/yr

PM Declination

-40.69 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.655 · y = 0.018 · z = -0.756

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 1.58368° · Dec -49.07536°

Galactic ℓ, b

321.581° · -66.388°

Ecliptic λ, β

336.554° · -44.461°

HTM-20 index

1910038462

Observation Record

Photometric series

1

RV measurements

2

Archive notes

5

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