Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2004

HD 330075 b

A gas giant orbiting the k-type orange HD 330075, located approximately 147.7 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 14.30 Earth radii
  • A mass of 152.56 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 0.75 g
  • An orbital period of 3.388 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0400 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 990 K (717 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 147.75 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.116
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 2,605,484 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

HD 330075 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
14.30 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.270 R♃
Mass
152.56 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.480 M♃
Density
0.29 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
0.75 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.116
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2004
Method Radial Velocity
Facility La Silla Observatory
Telescope 3.6 m ESO Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#301of 1771

top 16.9%

This planet

14.30R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth HD 330075 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0014.3011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.00152.56317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.510.291.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.000.752.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i) 152.558 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD

HD 330075

HIP

HIP 77517

TIC

TIC 275786473

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 5982775854377691136

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 5982775854377691136

System

HD 330075

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 14.300 R⊕ · percentile 82 / cohort 1771
Mass 152.558 M⊕ · percentile 12 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 3.39 d · percentile 22 / cohort 1533
Distance 45.30 pc · percentile 17 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.116 · percentile 31 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
3.388 days
Semi-major axis
0.0400 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 3.39 Earth days (0.9% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0400 AU.

Eq. Temperature

990K

(717 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.116

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Insufficient insolation data — the surface is too hot to retain surface water. Close-orbiting tidally-locked around a cool host.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Pepe et al. 2004

Instrument

HARPS Spectrograph

Publication

2004-08

Observation locale

Ground

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 2004 at La Silla Observatory (3 shown).

Host System: HD 330075

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,000 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

6.20 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.840 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.470 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.05

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.260 dex

Stellar density

2.017 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

61.28 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

0.70 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
45.30 parsec
Light-years 147.75 ly
V-band magnitude
9.36 mag
Voyager-speed travel 2,605,484 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

7.110.410.36B9.36V9.09Gaia8.52TESS7.73J7.25H7.17K7.09W17.19W27.15W37.37W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

22.047 mas

Total Proper Motion

250.481 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-232.76 mas/yr

PM Declination

-92.54 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.347 · y = -0.542 · z = -0.766

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 237.40550° · Dec -49.96392°

Galactic ℓ, b

329.806° · 3.376°

Ecliptic λ, β

246.623° · -29.136°

HTM-20 index

-72371238

Observation Record

Photometric series

1

RV measurements

1

Archive notes

1

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