Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2015

HD 175607 b

A unclassified orbiting the g-type yellow (sun-like) HD 175607, located approximately 131.5 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A mass of 2,456.18 Earth masses
  • An orbital period of 29.010 days
  • Distance from Earth 131.54 light-years
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 2,319,702 years

HD 175607 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
R♃
Mass
2,456.18 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
7.728 M♃
Density
g/cm³
Surface Gravity
g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Unclassified

ESI Score
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2015
Method Radial Velocity
Facility La Silla Observatory
Telescope 3.6 m ESO Telescope
Metric Earth HD 175607 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002,456.18317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.511.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.002.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Best measured mass 2,456.178 M⊕ Direct mass measurement (not derived).
Minimum mass (M sin i) 8.980 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD

HD 175607

HIP

HIP 93373

TIC

TIC 382073690

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 6434759761383343744

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 6434759761383343744

System

HD 175607

Percentile among Unclassified cohort

Mass 2,456.178 M⊕ · percentile 71 / cohort 42
Orbital period 29.01 d · percentile 53 / cohort 43
Distance 40.33 pc · percentile 60 / cohort 43

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
29.010 days
Semi-major axis
AU
Eccentricity
0.110
Inclination
0.19 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 29.01 Earth days (7.9% of a terrestrial year) on a mildly elliptical path.

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Mortier et al. 2016

Instrument

HARPS Spectrograph

Publication

2016-01

Observation locale

Ground

Host System: HD 175607

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,392 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

10.32 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.700 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.710 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.62

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.640 dex

Stellar density

2.222 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-92.00 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

1.31 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
40.33 parsec
Light-years 131.54 ly
V-band magnitude
8.60 mag
Voyager-speed travel 2,319,702 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

6.79.29.22B8.60V8.41Gaia7.94TESS7.28J6.93H6.88K6.80W16.81W26.82W36.68W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

24.766 mas

Total Proper Motion

407.749 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

133.11 mas/yr

PM Declination

-385.41 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.106 · y = -0.389 · z = -0.915

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 285.27429° · Dec -66.19434°

Galactic ℓ, b

329.498° · -25.615°

Ecliptic λ, β

278.384° · -43.199°

HTM-20 index

1133135496

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