Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2019

HD 25015 b

A gas giant orbiting the k-type orange HD 25015, located approximately 122.1 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 12.50 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2,884.93 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 18.46 g
  • An orbital period of 6,134.427 days
  • Semi-major axis 6.2480 AU
  • Distance from Earth 122.09 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.396
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 2,153,057 years

HD 25015 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
12.50 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.120 R♃
Mass
2,884.93 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
9.077 M♃
Density
8.12 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
18.46 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.396
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2019
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 25015 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0012.5011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002,884.93317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.518.121.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.0018.462.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Best measured mass 2,884.928 M⊕ Direct mass measurement (not derived).
Minimum mass (M sin i) 1,423.878 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD

HD 25015

HIP

HIP 18527

TIC

TIC 178249461

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 5094032153102626688

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 5094032153102626688

System

HD 25015

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 12.500 R⊕ · percentile 28 / cohort 1771
Mass 2,884.928 M⊕ · percentile 86 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 6,134.43 d · percentile 94 / cohort 1533
Distance 37.43 pc · percentile 12 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.396 · percentile 85 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
6,134.427 days
Semi-major axis
6.2480 AU
Eccentricity
0.341
Inclination
32.05 °

Year Length

A year here lasts about 16.80 Earth years on a highly eccentric trajectory at a mean orbital distance of 6.2480 AU.

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.396

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

Rickman et al. 2019

Instrument

CORALIE Spectrograph

Publication

2019-05

Observation locale

Ground

Host System: HD 25015

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,160 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.00 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.830 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.860 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.04

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.400 dex

Stellar density

2.247 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

28.15 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

3.49 km/s

Rotation period

13.60 days

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
37.43 parsec
Light-years 122.09 ly
V-band magnitude
8.87 mag
Voyager-speed travel 2,153,057 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

6.79.89.79B8.87V8.60Gaia8.05TESS7.31J6.90H6.81K6.75W16.78W26.77W36.81W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

26.686 mas

Total Proper Motion

159.372 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

118.72 mas/yr

PM Declination

106.33 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.477 · y = 0.808 · z = -0.346

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 59.43355° · Dec -20.26733°

Galactic ℓ, b

214.130° · -47.043°

Ecliptic λ, β

51.661° · -39.726°

HTM-20 index

1706123577

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