Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

HD 220842 b

A gas giant orbiting the f-type yellow-white HD 220842, located approximately 210.9 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 13.10 Earth radii
  • A mass of 1,010.70 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 5.89 g
  • An orbital period of 218.470 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.7400 AU
  • Distance from Earth 210.86 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.401
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 3,718,502 years

HD 220842 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
13.10 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.170 R♃
Mass
1,010.70 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
3.180 M♃
Density
2.47 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
5.89 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.401
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2016
Method Radial Velocity
Facility Haute-Provence Observatory
Telescope 1.93 m Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#910of 1771

top 51.3%

This planet

13.10R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth HD 220842 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0013.1011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.001,010.70317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.512.471.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.005.892.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i) 1,010.699 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD

HD 220842

HIP

HIP 115714

TIC

TIC 251866143

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 1997273733835247616

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 1997273733835247616

System

HD 220842

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 13.100 R⊕ · percentile 46 / cohort 1771
Mass 1,010.699 M⊕ · percentile 67 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 218.47 d · percentile 58 / cohort 1533
Distance 64.65 pc · percentile 27 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.401 · percentile 86 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
218.470 days
Semi-major axis
0.7400 AU
Eccentricity
0.404
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 218.47 Earth days (59.8% of a terrestrial year) on a highly eccentric trajectory at a mean orbital distance of 0.7400 AU.

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.401

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Discovery Paper

Instrument

SOPHIE Spectrograph

Publication

2016-04

Observation locale

Ground

Host System: HD 220842

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

5,960 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

Stellar Radius

1.416 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.130 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.17

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.240 dex

Stellar density

0.519 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-22.57 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

3.40 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
64.65 parsec
Light-years 210.86 ly
V-band magnitude
7.98 mag
Voyager-speed travel 3,718,502 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

6.58.68.57B7.98V7.83Gaia7.43TESS6.85J6.63H6.56K6.48W16.48W26.53W36.55W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

15.439 mas

Total Proper Motion

168.601 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-89.12 mas/yr

PM Declination

143.12 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.541 · y = -0.079 · z = 0.838

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 351.65342° · Dec 56.88714°

Galactic ℓ, b

111.505° · -4.091°

Ecliptic λ, β

25.721° · 53.132°

HTM-20 index

-96445540

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