Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2012

HD 220074 b

A gas giant orbiting the m-type red dwarf HD 220074, located approximately 1,058.5 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 12.20 Earth radii
  • A mass of 5,288.69 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 35.53 g
  • An orbital period of 672.100 days
  • Semi-major axis 1.6000 AU
  • Distance from Earth 1,058.51 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.315
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 18,666,764 years

HD 220074 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
12.20 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.090 R♃
Mass
5,288.69 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
16.640 M♃
Density
16.00 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
35.53 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.315
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

#1410of 1771

top 79.6%

This planet

12.20R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth HD 220074 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0012.2011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.005,288.69317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.5116.001.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.0035.532.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i) 5,288.691 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD

HD 220074

HIP

HIP 115218

TIC

TIC 269237357

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2014988549785194752

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2014988549785194752

System

HD 220074

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 12.200 R⊕ · percentile 19 / cohort 1771
Mass 5,288.691 M⊕ · percentile 95 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 672.10 d · percentile 72 / cohort 1533
Distance 324.54 pc · percentile 63 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.315 · percentile 62 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
672.100 days
Semi-major axis
1.6000 AU
Eccentricity
0.140
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts about 1.84 Earth years on a mildly elliptical path at a mean orbital distance of 1.6000 AU.

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.315

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 220074

Spectral Class

M-type red dwarf

Effective Temperature

3,787 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.50 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

54.920 R☉

Stellar Mass

2.200 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.25

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

1.300 dex

Systemic radial velocity

-36.89 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

3.00 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
324.54 parsec
Light-years 1,058.51 ly
V-band magnitude
6.41 mag
Voyager-speed travel 18,666,764 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

0.48.18.11B6.41V5.63Gaia4.69TESS3.18J2.37H2.01K0.40W10.75W22.17W32.03W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

3.054 mas

Total Proper Motion

9.448 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

7.81 mas/yr

PM Declination

-5.32 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.463 · y = -0.081 · z = 0.883

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 350.05998° · Dec 61.97011°

Galactic ℓ, b

112.438° · 0.971°

Ecliptic λ, β

30.866° · 57.366°

HTM-20 index

816547487

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