Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

HD 35759 b

A gas giant orbiting the g-type yellow (sun-like) HD 35759, located approximately 232.4 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 13.00 Earth radii
  • A mass of 1,195.04 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 7.07 g
  • An orbital period of 82.467 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.3890 AU
  • Distance from Earth 232.36 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.413
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 4,097,687 years

HD 35759 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
13.00 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.160 R♃
Mass
1,195.04 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
3.760 M♃
Density
2.99 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
7.07 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.413
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2016
Method Radial Velocity
Facility Haute-Provence Observatory
Telescope 1.93 m Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#960of 1771

top 54.2%

This planet

13.00R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth HD 35759 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0013.0011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.001,195.04317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.512.991.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.007.072.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i) 1,195.041 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD

HD 35759

HIP

HIP 25883

TIC

TIC 286954708

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 287622247440034688

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 287622247440034688

System

HD 35759

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 13.000 R⊕ · percentile 43 / cohort 1771
Mass 1,195.041 M⊕ · percentile 70 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 82.47 d · percentile 53 / cohort 1533
Distance 71.24 pc · percentile 28 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.413 · percentile 89 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
82.467 days
Semi-major axis
0.3890 AU
Eccentricity
0.389
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 82.47 Earth days (22.6% of a terrestrial year) on a highly eccentric trajectory at a mean orbital distance of 0.3890 AU.

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.413

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Discovery Paper

Instrument

SOPHIE Spectrograph

Publication

2016-04

Observation locale

Ground

Host System: HD 35759

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

6,060 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

Stellar Radius

1.760 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.150 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.04

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.240 dex

Stellar density

0.311 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-12.57 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

3.50 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
71.24 parsec
Light-years 232.36 ly
V-band magnitude
7.74 mag
Voyager-speed travel 4,097,687 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

6.28.38.33B7.74V7.60Gaia7.20TESS6.61J6.39H6.32K6.31W16.28W26.34W36.25W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

14.008 mas

Total Proper Motion

97.317 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-29.16 mas/yr

PM Declination

-92.85 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.054 · y = 0.430 · z = 0.901

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 82.88866° · Dec 64.31838°

Galactic ℓ, b

148.031° · 16.213°

Ecliptic λ, β

85.921° · 40.980°

HTM-20 index

1350353730

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