Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2012

HD 219077 b

A gas giant orbiting the g-type yellow (sun-like) HD 219077, located approximately 95.2 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 12.50 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3,057.51 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 19.57 g
  • An orbital period of 5,478.689 days
  • Semi-major axis 5.9350 AU
  • Distance from Earth 95.19 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.389
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 1,678,732 years

HD 219077 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
12.50 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.110 R♃
Mass
3,057.51 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
9.620 M♃
Density
8.60 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
19.57 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.389
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2012
Method Radial Velocity
Facility La Silla Observatory
Telescope 1.2 m Leonhard Euler 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 219077 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0012.5011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003,057.51317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.518.601.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.0019.572.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Best measured mass 3,057.509 M⊕ Direct mass measurement (not derived).
Minimum mass (M sin i) 3,302.110 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD

HD 219077

HIP

HIP 114699

TIC

TIC 394125166

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 6489771832811810432

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 6489771832811810432

System

HD 219077

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 12.500 R⊕ · percentile 28 / cohort 1771
Mass 3,057.509 M⊕ · percentile 87 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 5,478.69 d · percentile 93 / cohort 1533
Distance 29.19 pc · percentile 7 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.389 · percentile 82 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
5,478.689 days
Semi-major axis
5.9350 AU
Eccentricity
0.768
Inclination
90.18 °

Year Length

A year here lasts about 15.00 Earth years on a highly eccentric trajectory at a mean orbital distance of 5.9350 AU.

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.389

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

Marmier et al. 2013

Instrument

CORALIE Spectrograph

Publication

2013-03

Observation locale

Ground

Host System: HD 219077

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,362 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

8.90 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.910 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.920 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.13

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.000 dex

Stellar density

0.170 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-30.87 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

1.46 km/s

Activity index (log R'HK)

-5.220

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
29.19 parsec
Light-years 95.19 ly
V-band magnitude
6.12 mag
Voyager-speed travel 1,678,732 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

3.96.96.90B6.12V5.92Gaia5.41TESS4.64J4.12H4.29K4.21W13.92W24.23W34.19W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

34.234 mas

Total Proper Motion

639.181 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

478.17 mas/yr

PM Declination

-424.15 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.449 · y = -0.091 · z = -0.889

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 348.53194° · Dec -62.70183°

Galactic ℓ, b

320.402° · -50.998°

Ecliptic λ, β

315.793° · -51.172°

HTM-20 index

-314779159

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