Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 1999

HD 192263 b

A gas giant orbiting the k-type orange HD 192263, located approximately 64.0 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 14.20 Earth radii
  • A mass of 177.98 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 0.88 g
  • An orbital period of 24.356 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.1500 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 486 K (213 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 64.04 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.242
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 1,129,410 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

HD 192263 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
14.20 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.260 R♃
Mass
177.98 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.560 M♃
Density
0.34 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
0.88 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.242
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 1999
Method Radial Velocity
Facility La Silla Observatory
Telescope 1.2 m Leonhard Euler Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#334of 1771

top 18.8%

This planet

14.20R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth HD 192263 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0014.2011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.00177.98317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.510.341.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.000.882.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i) 177.985 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD

HD 192263

HIP

HIP 99711

TIC

TIC 243962745

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 4224259562941398400

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 4224259562941398400

System

HD 192263

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 14.200 R⊕ · percentile 79 / cohort 1771
Mass 177.985 M⊕ · percentile 16 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 24.36 d · percentile 48 / cohort 1533
Distance 19.64 pc · percentile 4 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.242 · percentile 42 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
24.356 days
Semi-major axis
0.1500 AU
Eccentricity
0.050
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 24.36 Earth days (6.7% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1500 AU.

Extended Orbital Architecture

RV semi-amplitude (K)

51.900 m/s

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,452,107.0900

Long. of periastron (ω)

20.00°

Angular separation (arcsec)

7.64000

Eq. Temperature

486K

(213 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.242

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Insufficient insolation data — the surface is too hot to retain surface water. Close-orbiting tidally-locked around a cool host.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Santos et al. 2000

Instrument

CORALIE Spectrograph

Publication

2000-04

Observation locale

Ground

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 1999 at La Silla Observatory (4 shown).

Host System: HD 192263

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,976 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

2.09 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.740 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.660 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.03

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.510 dex

Stellar density

2.539 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-10.69 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

1.80 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
19.64 parsec
Light-years 64.04 ly
V-band magnitude
7.79 mag
Voyager-speed travel 1,129,410 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

5.48.78.73B7.79V7.50Gaia6.92TESS6.12J5.69H5.54K5.51W15.43W25.54W35.50W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

50.898 mas

Total Proper Motion

268.381 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-62.67 mas/yr

PM Declination

260.96 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.552 · y = -0.834 · z = -0.015

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 303.49909° · Dec -0.86576°

Galactic ℓ, b

41.876° · -18.697°

Ecliptic λ, β

305.590° · 18.530°

HTM-20 index

255514817

Observation Record

Photometric series

3

RV measurements

3

Archive notes

1

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