Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2012

HD 166724 b

A gas giant orbiting the k-type orange HD 166724, located approximately 147.2 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 13.00 Earth radii
  • A mass of 1,207.75 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 7.15 g
  • An orbital period of 5,144.000 days
  • Semi-major axis 5.4200 AU
  • Distance from Earth 147.21 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.414
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 2,596,011 years

HD 166724 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
13.00 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.160 R♃
Mass
1,207.75 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
3.800 M♃
Density
3.02 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
7.15 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.414
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2012
Method Radial Velocity
Facility La Silla Observatory
Telescope 1.2 m Leonhard Euler Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#960of 1771

top 54.2%

This planet

13.00R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth HD 166724 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0013.0011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.001,207.75317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.513.021.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.007.152.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Best measured mass 1,207.748 M⊕ Direct mass measurement (not derived).
Minimum mass (M sin i) 1,121.890 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD

HD 166724

HIP

HIP 89354

TIC

TIC 87989721

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 6724520279784564864

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 6724520279784564864

System

HD 166724

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 13.000 R⊕ · percentile 43 / cohort 1771
Mass 1,207.748 M⊕ · percentile 71 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 5,144.00 d · percentile 93 / cohort 1533
Distance 45.13 pc · percentile 16 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.414 · percentile 89 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
5,144.000 days
Semi-major axis
5.4200 AU
Eccentricity
0.734
Inclination
68.00 °

Year Length

A year here lasts about 14.08 Earth years on a highly eccentric trajectory at a mean orbital distance of 5.4200 AU.

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.414

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

Marmier et al. 2013

Instrument

CORALIE Spectrograph

Publication

2013-03

Observation locale

Ground

Host System: HD 166724

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,127 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.00 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.797 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.810 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.09

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.430 dex

Stellar density

2.422 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-17.62 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

1.42 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
45.13 parsec
Light-years 147.21 ly
V-band magnitude
9.33 mag
Voyager-speed travel 2,596,011 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

7.210.110.14B9.33V9.07Gaia8.52TESS7.75J7.41H7.25K7.19W17.26W27.25W37.22W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

22.127 mas

Total Proper Motion

87.906 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

36.11 mas/yr

PM Declination

-80.15 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.045 · y = -0.735 · z = -0.677

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 273.49886° · Dec -42.57572°

Galactic ℓ, b

350.822° · -11.649°

Ecliptic λ, β

272.723° · -19.170°

HTM-20 index

-487301942

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