Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2005

HD 27894 b

A gas giant orbiting the k-type orange HD 27894, located approximately 142.9 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 14.10 Earth radii
  • A mass of 196.74 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 0.99 g
  • An orbital period of 18.019 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.1250 AU
  • Distance from Earth 142.93 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.270
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 2,520,502 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

2 siblings around HD 27894

HD 27894 b shares its host star with 2 other confirmed planets. Side-by-side measurements below.

Planet Type Radius (R⊕) Mass (M⊕) Period (d) Eq. T (K) Year
HD 27894 b this Gas Giant 14.10 196.74 18.019 2005
HD 27894 c Neptune-like 8.24 51.49 36.070 2017
HD 27894 d Gas Giant 12.70 2,063.66 5,019.542 2017

HD 27894 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
14.10 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.260 R♃
Mass
196.74 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.619 M♃
Density
0.39 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
0.99 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.270
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2005
Method Radial Velocity
Facility La Silla Observatory
Telescope 3.6 m ESO Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#371of 1771

top 20.9%

This planet

14.10R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth HD 27894 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0014.1011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.00196.74317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.510.391.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.000.992.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i) 196.736 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD

HD 27894

HIP

HIP 20277

TIC

TIC 396697266

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 4678605152248591488

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 4678605152248591488

System

HD 27894

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 14.100 R⊕ · percentile 77 / cohort 1771
Mass 196.736 M⊕ · percentile 19 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 18.02 d · percentile 47 / cohort 1533
Distance 43.82 pc · percentile 16 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.270 · percentile 50 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
18.019 days
Semi-major axis
0.1250 AU
Eccentricity
0.047
Inclination
89.00 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 18.02 Earth days (4.9% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1250 AU.

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.270

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Insufficient insolation data. Close-orbiting tidally-locked around a cool host.

Detection Signatures

Radial velocity

Stellar wobble has been measured spectroscopically.

Astrometry

Positional wobble of the host star was measured.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Moutou et al. 2005

Instrument

HARPS Spectrograph

Publication

2005-08

Observation locale

Ground

Host System: HD 27894

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,875 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.90 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.892 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.810 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.30

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.220 dex

Stellar density

1.846 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

82.90 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

1.50 km/s

Rotation period

44.00 days

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
43.82 parsec
Light-years 142.93 ly
V-band magnitude
9.36 mag
Voyager-speed travel 2,520,502 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

6.910.310.31B9.36V9.07Gaia8.46TESS7.64J7.17H7.07K6.94W17.08W27.05W36.99W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

22.791 mas

Total Proper Motion

325.715 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

182.31 mas/yr

PM Declination

269.91 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.213 · y = 0.462 · z = -0.861

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 65.19757° · Dec -59.40968°

Galactic ℓ, b

270.100° · -42.009°

Ecliptic λ, β

20.873° · -76.793°

HTM-20 index

1725638851

Observation Record

Photometric series

1

RV measurements

1

Archive notes

1

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