Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2002

HD 196050 b

A gas giant orbiting the g-type yellow (sun-like) HD 196050, located approximately 165.3 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 12.90 Earth radii
  • A mass of 1,493.79 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 8.98 g
  • An orbital period of 1,392.000 days
  • Semi-major axis 2.6500 AU
  • Distance from Earth 165.28 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.426
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 2,914,659 years

Context from the literature

HD 196050 b is an exoplanet with a 1378-day period and a minimum mass of 2.90 Jupiter masses. The average orbital distance is 2.54 astronomical units and the orbital eccentricity is 22.8%. The periastron (closest) distance is 1.96 AU and the apastron (farthest) distance is 3.12 AU. The average orbital velocity is 20.1 km/s and the semi-amplitude is 49.7 m/s. The longitude of periastron is 187° and the time of periastron is 2,450,843 JD.

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HD 196050 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
12.90 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.150 R♃
Mass
1,493.79 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
4.700 M♃
Density
3.82 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
8.98 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.426
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2002
Method Radial Velocity
Facility Anglo-Australian Telescope
Telescope 3.9 m Anglo-Australian Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#1011of 1771

top 57.0%

This planet

12.90R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth HD 196050 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0012.9011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.001,493.79317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.513.821.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.008.982.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Best measured mass 1,493.794 M⊕ Direct mass measurement (not derived).
Minimum mass (M sin i) 949.353 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD

HD 196050

HIP

HIP 101806

TIC

TIC 351534793

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 6454954010413575296

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 6454954010413575296

System

HD 196050

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 12.900 R⊕ · percentile 41 / cohort 1771
Mass 1,493.794 M⊕ · percentile 74 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 1,392.00 d · percentile 81 / cohort 1533
Distance 50.67 pc · percentile 20 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.426 · percentile 93 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
1,392.000 days
Semi-major axis
2.6500 AU
Eccentricity
0.200
Inclination
42.00 °

Year Length

A year here lasts about 3.81 Earth years on a mildly elliptical path at a mean orbital distance of 2.6500 AU.

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.426

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

Jones et al. 2002

Instrument

UCLES Spectrograph

Publication

2002-12

Observation locale

Ground

Host System: HD 196050

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,879 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.30 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.420 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.270 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.23

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.250 dex

Stellar density

0.523 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

61.37 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

3.30 km/s

Activity index (log R'HK)

-4.980

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
50.67 parsec
Light-years 165.28 ly
V-band magnitude
7.50 mag
Voyager-speed travel 2,914,659 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

5.88.08.04B7.50V7.34Gaia6.92TESS6.38J6.12H6.03K5.84W15.80W26.02W35.96W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

19.705 mas

Total Proper Motion

201.848 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-191.12 mas/yr

PM Declination

-64.92 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.312 · y = -0.379 · z = -0.872

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 309.46378° · Dec -60.63476°

Galactic ℓ, b

335.919° · -36.359°

Ecliptic λ, β

294.181° · -40.467°

HTM-20 index

-1740142364

Observation Record

Photometric series

1

RV measurements

3

Archive notes

6

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