Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2009

HD 147018 c

A gas giant orbiting the g-type yellow (sun-like) HD 147018, located approximately 131.9 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 12.70 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2,080.00 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 12.90 g
  • An orbital period of 1,008.000 days
  • Semi-major axis 1.9220 AU
  • Distance from Earth 131.85 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.441
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 2,325,184 years

Context from the literature

HD 147018 c is a gas giant extrasolar planet which orbits the G-type main sequence star HD 147018, located approximately 140 light years away in the constellation Triangulum Australe. It has mass at least six and a half time more than Jupiter and orbits HD 147018 nearly twice the distance between the Earth and the Sun. This planet is eight times farther away than HD 147018 b. This planet was discovered on August 11, 2009 by radial velocity method.

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1 sibling around HD 147018

HD 147018 c shares its host star with 1 other confirmed planet. Side-by-side measurements below.

Planet Type Radius (R⊕) Mass (M⊕) Period (d) Eq. T (K) Year
HD 147018 b Gas Giant 13.40 674.00 44.236 2009
HD 147018 c this Gas Giant 12.70 2,080.00 1,008.000 2009

HD 147018 c Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
12.70 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.130 R♃
Mass
2,080.00 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
6.560 M♃
Density
5.58 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
12.90 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.441
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2009
Method Radial Velocity
Facility La Silla Observatory
Telescope 1.2 m Leonhard Euler Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#1130of 1771

top 63.7%

This planet

12.70R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth HD 147018 c Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0012.7011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002,080.00317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.515.581.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.0012.902.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i) 2,080.000 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD

HD 147018

HIP

HIP 80250

TIC

TIC 350083732

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 5831054382288870912

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 5831054382288870912

System

HD 147018

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 12.700 R⊕ · percentile 34 / cohort 1771
Mass 2,080.000 M⊕ · percentile 81 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 1,008.00 d · percentile 77 / cohort 1533
Distance 40.43 pc · percentile 14 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.441 · percentile 98 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
1,008.000 days
Semi-major axis
1.9220 AU
Eccentricity
0.133
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts about 2.76 Earth years on a mildly elliptical path at a mean orbital distance of 1.9220 AU.

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.441

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Segransan et al. 2010

Instrument

CORALIE Spectrograph

Publication

2010-02

Observation locale

Ground

Host System: HD 147018

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,441 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

6.36 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.938 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.927 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.10

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.420 dex

Stellar density

1.676 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-27.35 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

1.56 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
40.43 parsec
Light-years 131.85 ly
V-band magnitude
8.30 mag
Voyager-speed travel 2,325,184 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

6.59.19.07B8.30V8.11Gaia7.63TESS6.96J6.64H6.57K6.49W16.54W26.57W36.55W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

24.708 mas

Total Proper Motion

362.651 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-177.50 mas/yr

PM Declination

-316.24 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.195 · y = -0.432 · z = -0.880

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 245.74900° · Dec -61.69013°

Galactic ℓ, b

325.410° · -8.441°

Ecliptic λ, β

255.380° · -39.476°

HTM-20 index

1065003242

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