Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2012

HD 208527 b

A gas giant orbiting the m-type red dwarf HD 208527, located approximately 1,018.3 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 12.50 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3,146.40 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 20.14 g
  • An orbital period of 875.500 days
  • Semi-major axis 2.1000 AU
  • Distance from Earth 1,018.27 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.385
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 17,957,112 years

HD 208527 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
12.50 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.110 R♃
Mass
3,146.40 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
9.900 M♃
Density
8.85 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
20.14 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.385
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2012
Method Radial Velocity
Facility Bohyunsan Optical Astronomical Observatory
Telescope 1.8 m Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#1235of 1771

top 69.7%

This planet

12.50R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth HD 208527 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0012.5011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003,146.40317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.518.851.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.0020.142.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i) 3,146.400 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD

HD 208527

HIP

HIP 108296

TIC

TIC 283621278

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 1781063082986968960

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 1781063087283857664

System

HD 208527

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 12.500 R⊕ · percentile 28 / cohort 1771
Mass 3,146.400 M⊕ · percentile 87 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 875.50 d · percentile 75 / cohort 1533
Distance 312.20 pc · percentile 61 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.385 · percentile 81 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
875.500 days
Semi-major axis
2.1000 AU
Eccentricity
0.080
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts about 2.40 Earth years on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 2.1000 AU.

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.385

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Lee et al. 2013

Instrument

BOES Echelle Spectrograph

Publication

2013-01

Observation locale

Ground

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 2012 at Bohyunsan Optical Astronomical Observatory (3 shown).

Host System: HD 208527

Spectral Class

M-type red dwarf

Effective Temperature

4,035 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

2.00 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

51.100 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.600 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.09

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

1.400 dex

Systemic radial velocity

4.79 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

3.60 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
312.20 parsec
Light-years 1,018.27 ly
V-band magnitude
6.39 mag
Voyager-speed travel 17,957,112 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

0.38.18.13B6.39V5.62Gaia4.68TESS3.33J2.54H2.22K0.28W10.37W22.10W32.01W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

3.180 mas

Total Proper Motion

15.077 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

1.21 mas/yr

PM Declination

15.03 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.800 · y = -0.479 · z = 0.362

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 329.09994° · Dec 21.23992°

Galactic ℓ, b

77.245° · -25.718°

Ecliptic λ, β

339.746° · 31.519°

HTM-20 index

-1800944628

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