Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2022

HD 3167 e

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

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 2.83 Earth radii
  • A mass of 8.41 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.05 g
  • An orbital period of 96.630 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.3885 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 375 K (102 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 154.24 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.602
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 2,720,002 years

Context from the literature

HD 3167 is a single, orange-hued star in the zodiac constellation of Pisces that hosts a system with four exoplanets. The star is too faint to be seen with the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of 8.97. The distance to HD 3167 can be determined from its annual parallax shift of 21.1363 mas as measured by the Gaia space observatory, yielding a range of 154 light years. It has a relatively high proper motion, traversing the celestial sphere at the rate of 0.204″ per year. Since it was first photographed during the Palomar observatory sky survey in 1953, it had moved over 12.5″ by 2017. The star is moving away from the Earth with an average heliocentric radial velocity of +19.5 km/s.

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3 siblings around HD 3167

HD 3167 e 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 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 this Sub-Neptune 2.83 8.41 96.630 375 2022

HD 3167 e Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
2.83 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.253 R♃
Mass
8.41 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.026 M♃
Density
2.04 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.05 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Sub-Neptune

ESI Score 0.602
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2022
Method Radial Velocity
Facility CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite (CHEOPS)
Telescope 0.3 m Ritchey-Chretien Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#703of 1978

top 35.5%

This planet

2.83R⊕

Sub-Neptune median

2.71R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth HD 3167 e Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.002.8311.21
Mass (M⊕)1.008.41317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.512.041.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.052.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i) 8.410 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 Sub-Neptune cohort

Radius 2.830 R⊕ · percentile 64 / cohort 1978
Mass 8.410 M⊕ · percentile 59 / cohort 1978
Orbital period 96.63 d · percentile 94 / cohort 1946
Distance 47.29 pc · percentile 11 / cohort 1975
ESI 0.602 · percentile 82 / cohort 1978

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
96.630 days
Semi-major axis
0.3885 AU
Eccentricity
0.150
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 96.63 Earth days (26.5% of a terrestrial year) on a mildly elliptical path at a mean orbital distance of 0.3885 AU.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

99.930

RV semi-amplitude (K)

1.330 m/s

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,457,738.4300

Angular separation (arcsec)

8.22000

Eq. Temperature

375K

(102 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.602

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Insufficient insolation data — the surface is too hot to retain surface water.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Bourrier et al. 2022

Instrument

Teledyne e2v CCD detector

Publication

2022-09

Observation locale

Space

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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