Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2019

HD 21411 b

A neptune-like orbiting the g-type yellow (sun-like) HD 21411, located approximately 95.0 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 9.52 Earth radii
  • A mass of 65.90 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 0.73 g
  • An orbital period of 84.288 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.3620 AU
  • Distance from Earth 95.02 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.316
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 1,675,649 years

HD 21411 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
9.52 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.850 R♃
Mass
65.90 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.207 M♃
Density
0.42 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
0.73 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Neptune-like

ESI Score 0.316
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2019
Method Radial Velocity
Facility Las Campanas Observatory
Telescope 6.5 m Magellan II Clay Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#45of 574

top 7.7%

This planet

9.52R⊕

Neptune-like median

6.39R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth HD 21411 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.009.5211.21
Mass (M⊕)1.0065.90317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.510.421.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.000.732.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i) 65.900 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD

HD 21411

HIP

HIP 16012

TIC

TIC 142875660

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 5056511692465250304

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 5056511692465250304

System

HD 21411

Percentile among Neptune-like cohort

Radius 9.520 R⊕ · percentile 92 / cohort 574
Mass 65.900 M⊕ · percentile 82 / cohort 574
Orbital period 84.29 d · percentile 78 / cohort 524
Distance 29.13 pc · percentile 9 / cohort 572
ESI 0.316 · percentile 54 / cohort 574

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
84.288 days
Semi-major axis
0.3620 AU
Eccentricity
0.400
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 84.29 Earth days (23.1% of a terrestrial year) on a highly eccentric trajectory at a mean orbital distance of 0.3620 AU.

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.316

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Feng et al. 2019

Instrument

Carnegie Planet Finder Spectrograph

Publication

2019-06

Observation locale

Ground

Host System: HD 21411

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,605 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

Stellar Radius

0.826 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.890 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.27

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.510 dex

Stellar density

2.405 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

17.82 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

2.00 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[M/H]

Distance
29.13 parsec
Light-years 95.02 ly
V-band magnitude
7.88 mag
Voyager-speed travel 1,675,649 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 12 bands

6.18.68.64B7.88V7.68Gaia7.21TESS7.11Ic6.57J6.24H6.13K6.14W16.08W26.13W36.06W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

34.297 mas

Total Proper Motion

314.125 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

218.07 mas/yr

PM Declination

226.10 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.535 · y = 0.674 · z = -0.509

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 51.54742° · Dec -30.61684°

Galactic ℓ, b

228.212° · -56.107°

Ecliptic λ, β

37.838° · -47.337°

HTM-20 index

619351461

Observation Record

Photometric series

1

Stellar spectra

1

Archive notes

1

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