Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2015

HD 24064 b

A gas giant orbiting the k-type orange HD 24064, located approximately 979.3 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 12.30 Earth radii
  • A mass of 4,096.83 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 27.08 g
  • An orbital period of 535.600 days
  • Semi-major axis 1.2900 AU
  • Distance from Earth 979.27 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.348
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 17,269,489 years

HD 24064 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
12.30 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.100 R♃
Mass
4,096.83 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
12.890 M♃
Density
12.10 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
27.08 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.348
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2015
Method Radial Velocity
Facility Bohyunsan Optical Astronomical Observatory
Telescope 1.8 m Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#1349of 1771

top 76.1%

This planet

12.30R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth HD 24064 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0012.3011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.004,096.83317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.5112.101.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.0027.082.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i) 4,096.829 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD

HD 24064

HIP

HIP 18451

TIC

TIC 102987456

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 549832131164952832

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 549832131164952832

System

HD 24064

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 12.300 R⊕ · percentile 22 / cohort 1771
Mass 4,096.829 M⊕ · percentile 92 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 535.60 d · percentile 69 / cohort 1533
Distance 300.25 pc · percentile 60 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.348 · percentile 70 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
535.600 days
Semi-major axis
1.2900 AU
Eccentricity
0.350
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts about 1.47 Earth years on a highly eccentric trajectory at a mean orbital distance of 1.2900 AU.

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.348

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Lee et al. 2015

Instrument

BOES Echelle Spectrograph

Publication

2015-12

Observation locale

Ground

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 2015 at Bohyunsan Optical Astronomical Observatory (3 shown).

Host System: HD 24064

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,052 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

9.00 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

40.000 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.610 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.49

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

1.440 dex

Systemic radial velocity

-45.28 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

3.50 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
300.25 parsec
Light-years 979.27 ly
V-band magnitude
6.75 mag
Voyager-speed travel 17,269,489 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

2.98.48.40B6.75V6.18Gaia5.35TESS4.32J3.43H3.13K3.09W12.91W23.06W32.97W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

3.302 mas

Total Proper Motion

17.865 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-14.57 mas/yr

PM Declination

10.34 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.141 · y = 0.235 · z = 0.962

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 59.15101° · Dec 74.08008°

Galactic ℓ, b

134.815° · 15.653°

Ecliptic λ, β

76.773° · 52.057°

HTM-20 index

-328601440

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