Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2023

HD 235088 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange HD 235088, located approximately 134.3 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.98 Earth radii
  • A mass of 4.15 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.06 g
  • An orbital period of 7.434 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0706 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 805 K (532 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 134.28 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.338
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 2,368,034 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

HD 235088 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.98 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.177 R♃
Mass
4.15 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.013 M♃
Density
2.92 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.06 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.338
HZ Position Inner
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2023
Method Transit
Facility Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
Telescope 0.1 m TESS Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#24of 1176

top 2.0%

This planet

1.98R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth HD 235088 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.9811.21
Mass (M⊕)1.004.15317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.512.921.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.062.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0070.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Best measured mass 4.150 M⊕ Direct mass measurement (not derived).

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD

HD 235088

HIP

HIP 98668

TIC

TIC 293954617

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2089570519439964416

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2089570519439964416

System

HD 235088

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.982 R⊕ · percentile 98 / cohort 1176
Mass 4.150 M⊕ · percentile 78 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 7.43 d · percentile 55 / cohort 1164
Distance 41.17 pc · percentile 9 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.338 · percentile 48 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
7.434 days
Semi-major axis
0.0706 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
88.74 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 7.43 Earth days (2.0% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0706 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.070 %

Duration

2.673 h

Impact parameter b

0.435

Rp / R★

0.023600

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,458,705.6461

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 701 ppm lasting ≈ 2.67 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.023600

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

19.710

Impact parameter (b)

0.435

RV semi-amplitude (K)

1.520 m/s

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,458,705.6461

Long. of periastron (ω)

90.00°

Angular separation (arcsec)

1.71000

Eq. Temperature

805K

(532 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

70.00

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.338

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the surface is too hot to retain surface water. Close-orbiting tidally-locked around a cool host.

Detection Signatures

Transit photometry

A transit dip has been observed from at least one telescope.

Radial velocity

Stellar wobble has been measured spectroscopically.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Orell Miquel et al. 2023

Instrument

TESS CCD Array

Publication

2023-07

Observation locale

Space

Host System: HD 235088

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,075 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

0.70 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.772 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.849 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.02

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.550 dex

Stellar density

2.622 g/cm³

Rotational v·sin i

1.90 km/s

Rotation period

12.17 days

Activity index (log R'HK)

-4.480

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
41.17 parsec
Light-years 134.28 ly
V-band magnitude
9.19 mag
Voyager-speed travel 2,368,034 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

7.010.110.13B9.19V8.94Gaia8.39TESS7.65J7.22H7.08K7.00W17.10W27.08W37.16W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

24.260 mas

Total Proper Motion

219.833 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

164.82 mas/yr

PM Declination

145.47 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.304 · y = -0.513 · z = 0.803

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 300.61545° · Dec 53.37744°

Galactic ℓ, b

87.458° · 11.774°

Ecliptic λ, β

333.450° · 70.147°

HTM-20 index

-1889364398

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