Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2023

HD 36384 b

A gas giant orbiting the m-type red dwarf HD 36384, located approximately 682.7 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 12.70 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2,097.67 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 13.01 g
  • An orbital period of 490.000 days
  • Semi-major axis 1.3000 AU
  • Distance from Earth 682.67 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.440
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 12,038,953 years

Context from the literature

HD 36384 is a star with an orbiting exoplanet companion in the northern constellation Camelopardalis. It is dimly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 6.19. The distance to this system is approximately 693 light-years based on parallax measurements, but is drifting closer with a heliocentric radial velocity of −5 km/s.

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HD 36384 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
12.70 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.130 R♃
Mass
2,097.67 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
6.600 M♃
Density
5.63 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
13.01 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.440
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2023
Method Radial Velocity
Facility Bohyunsan Optical Astronomical Observatory
Telescope 1.8 m Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#1130of 1771

top 63.7%

This planet

12.70R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth HD 36384 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0012.7011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002,097.67317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.515.631.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.0013.012.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i) 2,097.667 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD

HD 36384

HIP

HIP 26638

TIC

TIC 418343111

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 502835190261902464

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 502835190261902464

System

HD 36384

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 12.700 R⊕ · percentile 34 / cohort 1771
Mass 2,097.667 M⊕ · percentile 81 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 490.00 d · percentile 67 / cohort 1533
Distance 209.31 pc · percentile 51 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.440 · percentile 98 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
490.000 days
Semi-major axis
1.3000 AU
Eccentricity
0.200
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts about 1.34 Earth years on a mildly elliptical path at a mean orbital distance of 1.3000 AU.

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.440

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Lee et al. 2023

Instrument

BOES Echelle Spectrograph

Publication

2023-08

Observation locale

Ground

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 2023 at Bohyunsan Optical Astronomical Observatory (3 shown).

Host System: HD 36384

Spectral Class

M-type red dwarf

Effective Temperature

3,940 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

0.11 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

38.400 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.140 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.16

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

1.100 dex

Rotational v·sin i

4.50 km/s

Rotation period

440.00 days

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
209.31 parsec
Light-years 682.67 ly
V-band magnitude
6.19 mag
Voyager-speed travel 12,038,953 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

0.17.87.76B6.19V5.48Gaia4.58TESS3.32J2.59H2.29K0.12W11.11W22.19W32.08W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

4.751 mas

Total Proper Motion

27.230 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-6.71 mas/yr

PM Declination

26.39 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.023 · y = 0.257 · z = 0.966

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 84.93200° · Dec 75.04399°

Galactic ℓ, b

138.256° · 21.706°

Ecliptic λ, β

87.891° · 51.642°

HTM-20 index

-1103288870

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