Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2012

HD 207832 b

A gas giant orbiting the g-type yellow (sun-like) HD 207832, located approximately 192.2 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 160.070 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.5860 AU
  • Distance from Earth 192.20 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.261
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 3,389,461 years

1 sibling around HD 207832

HD 207832 b shares its host star with 1 other confirmed planet. Side-by-side measurements below.

Planet Type Radius (R⊕) Mass (M⊕) Period (d) Eq. T (K) Year
HD 207832 b this Gas Giant 14.20 177.98 160.070 2012
HD 207832 c Gas Giant 14.00 232.02 1,155.700 2012

HD 207832 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 0.261
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2012
Method Radial Velocity
Facility W. M. Keck Observatory
Telescope 10 m Keck I 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 207832 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 207832

HIP

HIP 107985

TIC

TIC 53895723

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 6812056381881853056

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 6812056381881853056

System

HD 207832

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 14.200 R⊕ · percentile 79 / cohort 1771
Mass 177.985 M⊕ · percentile 16 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 160.07 d · percentile 56 / cohort 1533
Distance 58.93 pc · percentile 24 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.261 · percentile 48 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
160.070 days
Semi-major axis
0.5860 AU
Eccentricity
0.197
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 160.07 Earth days (43.8% of a terrestrial year) on a mildly elliptical path at a mean orbital distance of 0.5860 AU.

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.261

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Haghighipour et al. 2012

Instrument

HIRES Spectrometer

Publication

2012-09

Observation locale

Ground

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 2012 at W. M. Keck Observatory (2 shown).

Host System: HD 207832

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,726 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

1.36 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.890 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.050 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.14

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.480 dex

Stellar density

1.525 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-16.48 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

3.00 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
58.93 parsec
Light-years 192.20 ly
V-band magnitude
8.78 mag
Voyager-speed travel 3,389,461 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

7.19.59.47B8.78V8.61Gaia8.17TESS7.59J7.30H7.21K7.06W17.18W27.19W37.11W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

16.941 mas

Total Proper Motion

192.650 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

129.09 mas/yr

PM Declination

-143.00 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.763 · y = -0.474 · z = -0.439

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 328.15179° · Dec -26.02717°

Galactic ℓ, b

24.003° · -50.216°

Ecliptic λ, β

321.385° · -12.356°

HTM-20 index

1804539890

Observation Record

Photometric series

1

RV measurements

1

Stellar spectra

2

Archive notes

1

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