Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2023

HD 165131 b

A gas giant orbiting the g-type yellow (sun-like) HD 165131, located approximately 187.3 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 12.10 Earth radii
  • A mass of 5,943.39 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 40.59 g
  • An orbital period of 2,342.600 days
  • Semi-major axis 3.5400 AU
  • Distance from Earth 187.30 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.300
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 3,303,023 years

HD 165131 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
12.10 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.080 R♃
Mass
5,943.39 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
18.700 M♃
Density
18.40 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
40.59 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.300
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2023
Method Radial Velocity
Facility Multiple Facilities
Telescope Multiple Telescopes

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#1454of 1771

top 82.0%

This planet

12.10R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth HD 165131 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0012.1011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.005,943.39317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.5118.401.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.0040.592.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Best measured mass 5,943.391 M⊕ Direct mass measurement (not derived).
Minimum mass (M sin i) 5,581.067 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD

HD 165131

HIP

HIP 88595

TIC

TIC 105138916

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 4070009007975710464

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 4070009007975710464

System

HD 165131

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 12.100 R⊕ · percentile 16 / cohort 1771
Mass 5,943.391 M⊕ · percentile 96 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 2,342.60 d · percentile 86 / cohort 1533
Distance 57.43 pc · percentile 24 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.300 · percentile 58 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
2,342.600 days
Semi-major axis
3.5400 AU
Eccentricity
0.671
Inclination
70.00 °

Year Length

A year here lasts about 6.41 Earth years on a highly eccentric trajectory at a mean orbital distance of 3.5400 AU.

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.300

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Detection Signatures

Radial velocity

Stellar wobble has been measured spectroscopically.

Astrometry

Positional wobble of the host star was measured.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Xiao et al. 2023

Instrument

Multiple Instruments

Publication

2023-05

Observation locale

Multiple Locales

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 2023 at Multiple Facilities (3 shown).

Host System: HD 165131

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,870 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

2.70 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.064 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.060 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.06

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.390 dex

Stellar density

1.240 g/cm³

Rotational v·sin i

2.30 km/s

Activity index (log R'HK)

-4.980

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
57.43 parsec
Light-years 187.30 ly
V-band magnitude
8.42 mag
Voyager-speed travel 3,303,023 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

6.69.19.07B8.42V8.26Gaia7.84TESS7.26J6.96H6.93K6.64W16.88W27.19W36.56W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

17.385 mas

Total Proper Motion

138.852 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-62.06 mas/yr

PM Declination

-124.21 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.022 · y = -0.929 · z = -0.369

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 271.34440° · Dec -21.67370°

Galactic ℓ, b

8.521° · -0.189°

Ecliptic λ, β

271.246° · 1.760°

HTM-20 index

200230246

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