Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2017

HD 3167 d

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange HD 3167, located approximately 154.2 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.92 Earth radii
  • A mass of 4.33 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.17 g
  • An orbital period of 8.411 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0763 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 860 K (586 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 154.24 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.323
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 2,720,002 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

3 siblings around HD 3167

HD 3167 d shares its host star with 3 other confirmed planets. Side-by-side measurements below.

Planet Type Radius (R⊕) Mass (M⊕) Period (d) Eq. T (K) Year
HD 3167 b Super-Earth 1.67 4.97 0.960 1,774 2016
HD 3167 d this Super-Earth 1.92 4.33 8.411 860 2017
HD 3167 c Sub-Neptune 3.00 11.13 29.845 564 2016
HD 3167 e Sub-Neptune 2.83 8.41 96.630 375 2022

HD 3167 d Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.92 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.171 R♃
Mass
4.33 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.014 M♃
Density
3.36 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.17 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.323
HZ Position Inner
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2017
Method Radial Velocity
Facility Multiple Observatories
Telescope Multiple Telescopes

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#102of 1176

top 8.6%

This planet

1.92R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth HD 3167 d Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.9211.21
Mass (M⊕)1.004.33317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.513.361.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.172.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0088.900.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i) 4.330 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD

HD 3167

HIP

HIP 2736

TIC

TIC 318707987

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2554032474712538880

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2554032474712538880

System

HD 3167

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.920 R⊕ · percentile 90 / cohort 1176
Mass 4.330 M⊕ · percentile 84 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 8.41 d · percentile 59 / cohort 1164
Distance 47.29 pc · percentile 11 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.323 · percentile 43 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
8.411 days
Semi-major axis
0.0763 AU
Eccentricity
0.120
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 8.41 Earth days (2.3% of a terrestrial year) on a mildly elliptical path at a mean orbital distance of 0.0763 AU.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

19.020

RV semi-amplitude (K)

1.550 m/s

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,457,745.3700

Angular separation (arcsec)

1.61000

Eq. Temperature

860K

(586 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

88.90

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.323

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.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Christiansen et al. 2017

Instrument

Multiple Instruments

Publication

2017-09

Observation locale

Ground

Host System: HD 3167

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,261 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

7.80 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.880 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.837 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.04

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.530 dex

Stellar density

1.817 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

19.53 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

2.41 km/s

Rotation period

23.52 days

Activity index (log R'HK)

-5.040

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
47.29 parsec
Light-years 154.24 ly
V-band magnitude
8.97 mag
Voyager-speed travel 2,720,002 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 12 bands

6.99.89.77B8.97V8.76Gaia8.95Kepler8.25TESS7.55J7.20H7.07K6.94W17.09W27.05W37.07W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

21.118 mas

Total Proper Motion

203.880 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

107.41 mas/yr

PM Declination

-173.29 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.986 · y = 0.152 · z = 0.076

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 8.74015° · Dec 4.38072°

Galactic ℓ, b

115.111° · -58.241°

Ecliptic λ, β

9.749° · 0.562°

HTM-20 index

-1000385905

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