Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2009

HD 190984 b

A gas giant orbiting the f-type yellow-white HD 190984, located approximately 483.3 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 13.00 Earth radii
  • A mass of 1,137.83 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 6.73 g
  • An orbital period of 4,885.000 days
  • Semi-major axis 5.5000 AU
  • Distance from Earth 483.32 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.411
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 8,523,362 years

HD 190984 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
13.00 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.160 R♃
Mass
1,137.83 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
3.580 M♃
Density
2.85 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
6.73 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.411
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2009
Method Radial Velocity
Facility La Silla Observatory
Telescope 3.6 m ESO 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 190984 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0013.0011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.001,137.83317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.512.851.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.006.732.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Best measured mass 1,137.826 M⊕ Direct mass measurement (not derived).
Minimum mass (M sin i) 985.200 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD

HD 190984

HIP

HIP 99496

TIC

TIC 466222634

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 6429295051154269440

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 6429295051154269440

System

HD 190984

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 13.000 R⊕ · percentile 43 / cohort 1771
Mass 1,137.826 M⊕ · percentile 69 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 4,885.00 d · percentile 92 / cohort 1533
Distance 148.19 pc · percentile 44 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.411 · percentile 88 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
4,885.000 days
Semi-major axis
5.5000 AU
Eccentricity
0.570
Inclination
64.00 °

Year Length

A year here lasts about 13.37 Earth years on a highly eccentric trajectory at a mean orbital distance of 5.5000 AU.

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.411

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

Santos et al. 2010

Instrument

HARPS Spectrograph

Publication

2010-03

Observation locale

Ground

Host System: HD 190984

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

5,988 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

Stellar Radius

1.530 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.910 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.48

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.020 dex

Stellar density

0.126 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

20.27 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

3.40 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
148.19 parsec
Light-years 483.32 ly
V-band magnitude
8.76 mag
Voyager-speed travel 8,523,362 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

7.39.39.32B8.76V8.61Gaia8.22TESS7.67J7.39H7.32K7.25W17.29W27.29W37.46W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

6.720 mas

Total Proper Motion

45.481 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

0.28 mas/yr

PM Declination

45.48 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.233 · y = -0.360 · z = -0.903

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 302.87798° · Dec -64.62027°

Galactic ℓ, b

331.579° · -32.858°

Ecliptic λ, β

288.640° · -43.294°

HTM-20 index

821007721

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