Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2004

HD 41004 A b

A gas giant orbiting the k-type orange HD 41004 A, located approximately 119.7 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 13.20 Earth radii
  • A mass of 807.25 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 4.63 g
  • An orbital period of 963.000 days
  • Distance from Earth 119.67 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.386
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 2,110,388 years

HD 41004 A b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
13.20 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.180 R♃
Mass
807.25 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
2.540 M♃
Density
1.93 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
4.63 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.386
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2004
Method Radial Velocity
Facility La Silla Observatory
Telescope 1.2 m Leonhard Euler Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#847of 1771

top 47.8%

This planet

13.20R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth HD 41004 A b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0013.2011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.00807.25317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.511.931.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.004.632.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i) 807.250 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD

HD 41004 A

HIP

HIP 28393 A

TIC

TIC 219152539

System

HD 41004

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 13.200 R⊕ · percentile 49 / cohort 1771
Mass 807.250 M⊕ · percentile 62 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 963.00 d · percentile 76 / cohort 1533
Distance 36.69 pc · percentile 11 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.386 · percentile 81 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
963.000 days
Semi-major axis
AU
Eccentricity
0.740
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts about 2.64 Earth years on a highly eccentric trajectory.

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.386

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Zucker et al. 2004

Instrument

CORALIE Spectrograph

Publication

2004-11

Observation locale

Ground

Discovery cohort

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

Host System: HD 41004 A

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,310 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

0.22 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.850 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.950 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.23

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.370 dex

Systemic radial velocity

42.51 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

2.00 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
36.69 parsec
Light-years 119.67 ly
V-band magnitude
8.65 mag
Voyager-speed travel 2,110,388 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 10 bands

6.29.59.49B8.65V7.77TESS7.00J6.55H6.43K6.36W16.30W26.31W36.24W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

27.255 mas

Total Proper Motion

78.007 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-42.65 mas/yr

PM Declination

65.32 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.001 · y = 0.666 · z = -0.746

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 89.95660° · Dec -48.23942°

Galactic ℓ, b

255.488° · -28.196°

Ecliptic λ, β

89.904° · -71.679°

HTM-20 index

-1840592795

Observation Record

Photometric series

1

RV measurements

3

Archive notes

6

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