Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2018

HD 148164 b

A gas giant orbiting the f-type yellow-white HD 148164, located approximately 251.8 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 13.70 Earth radii
  • A mass of 390.93 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 2.08 g
  • An orbital period of 328.550 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.9930 AU
  • Distance from Earth 251.78 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.325
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 4,440,192 years

1 sibling around HD 148164

HD 148164 b 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 148164 b this Gas Giant 13.70 390.93 328.550 2018
HD 148164 c Gas Giant 12.80 1,640.00 5,062.000 2018

HD 148164 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
13.70 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.220 R♃
Mass
390.93 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
1.230 M♃
Density
0.84 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
2.08 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.325
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2018
Method Radial Velocity
Facility W. M. Keck Observatory
Telescope 10 m Keck I 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 148164 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0013.7011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.00390.93317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.510.841.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.002.082.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i) 390.931 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD

HD 148164

HIP

HIP 80484

TIC

TIC 323319664

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 4459907547841472128

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 4459907547841472128

System

HD 148164

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 13.700 R⊕ · percentile 66 / cohort 1771
Mass 390.931 M⊕ · percentile 41 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 328.55 d · percentile 62 / cohort 1533
Distance 77.20 pc · percentile 30 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.325 · percentile 64 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
328.550 days
Semi-major axis
0.9930 AU
Eccentricity
0.587
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 328.55 Earth days (90.0% of a terrestrial year) on a highly eccentric trajectory at a mean orbital distance of 0.9930 AU.

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.325

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Ment et al. 2018

Instrument

HIRES Spectrometer

Publication

2018-11

Observation locale

Ground

Host System: HD 148164

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,032 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

2.41 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.340 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.210 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.24

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.158 dex

Stellar density

0.507 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-64.63 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

4.00 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
77.20 parsec
Light-years 251.78 ly
V-band magnitude
8.23 mag
Voyager-speed travel 4,440,192 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

6.88.78.69B8.23V8.09Gaia7.71TESS7.23J6.97H6.91K6.87W16.89W26.91W36.84W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

12.925 mas

Total Proper Motion

88.524 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-88.51 mas/yr

PM Declination

1.57 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.391 · y = -0.897 · z = 0.207

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 246.43517° · Dec 11.91907°

Galactic ℓ, b

27.051° · 37.678°

Ecliptic λ, β

242.157° · 33.109°

HTM-20 index

152517994

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