Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2022

HD 19615 b

A gas giant orbiting the k-type orange HD 19615, located approximately 864.8 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 12.60 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2,701.54 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 17.02 g
  • An orbital period of 402.000 days
  • Semi-major axis 1.1000 AU
  • Distance from Earth 864.82 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.406
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 15,251,081 years

HD 19615 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
12.60 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.120 R♃
Mass
2,701.54 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
8.500 M♃
Density
7.42 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
17.02 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.406
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2022
Method Radial Velocity
Facility Bohyunsan Optical Astronomical Observatory
Telescope 1.8 m Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#1179of 1771

top 66.5%

This planet

12.60R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth HD 19615 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0012.6011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002,701.54317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.517.421.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.0017.022.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i) 2,701.541 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD

HD 19615

TIC

TIC 289383510

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 547375547309768064

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 547375547309768064

System

HD 19615

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 12.600 R⊕ · percentile 31 / cohort 1771
Mass 2,701.541 M⊕ · percentile 85 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 402.00 d · percentile 64 / cohort 1533
Distance 265.16 pc · percentile 57 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.406 · percentile 87 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
402.000 days
Semi-major axis
1.1000 AU
Eccentricity
0.200
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts about 1.10 Earth years on a mildly elliptical path at a mean orbital distance of 1.1000 AU.

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.406

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Jeong et al. 2022

Instrument

BOES Echelle Spectrograph

Publication

2022-06

Observation locale

Ground

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 2022 at Bohyunsan Optical Astronomical Observatory (2 shown).

Host System: HD 19615

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,263 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

6.70 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

32.300 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.100 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.31

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

1.400 dex

Systemic radial velocity

-35.21 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

2.60 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
265.16 parsec
Light-years 864.82 ly
V-band magnitude
6.56 mag
Voyager-speed travel 15,251,081 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

2.28.08.03B6.56V6.02Gaia5.18TESS4.21J3.41H3.06K2.17W12.84W22.95W32.90W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

3.743 mas

Total Proper Motion

30.856 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-6.79 mas/yr

PM Declination

-30.10 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.183 · y = 0.209 · z = 0.961

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 48.78133° · Dec 73.86802°

Galactic ℓ, b

132.593° · 13.755°

Ecliptic λ, β

72.301° · 52.960°

HTM-20 index

240944691

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