Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2000

HD 46375 b

A gas giant orbiting the k-type orange HD 46375, located approximately 96.4 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 10.00 Earth radii
  • A mass of 71.80 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 0.72 g
  • An orbital period of 3.024 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0398 AU
  • Distance from Earth 96.39 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.306
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 1,699,812 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

HD 46375 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
10.00 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.894 R♃
Mass
71.80 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.226 M♃
Density
0.40 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
0.72 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.306
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2000
Method Radial Velocity
Facility W. M. Keck Observatory
Telescope 10 m Keck I Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#1770of 1771

top 99.9%

This planet

10.00R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth HD 46375 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0010.0011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.0071.80317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.510.401.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.000.722.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i) 71.800 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD

HD 46375

HIP

HIP 31246

TIC

TIC 234928947

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 3131777319158581376

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 3131777319158581376

System

HD 46375

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 10.000 R⊕ · percentile 0 / cohort 1771
Mass 71.800 M⊕ · percentile 1 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 3.02 d · percentile 16 / cohort 1533
Distance 29.55 pc · percentile 7 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.306 · percentile 60 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
3.024 days
Semi-major axis
0.0398 AU
Eccentricity
0.063
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 3.02 Earth days (0.8% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0398 AU.

Extended Orbital Architecture

RV semi-amplitude (K)

33.650 m/s

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,452,571.0440

Long. of periastron (ω)

114.00°

Angular separation (arcsec)

1.35000

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.306

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Insufficient insolation data. Close-orbiting tidally-locked around a cool host.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Marcy et al. 2000

Instrument

HIRES Spectrometer

Publication

2000-06

Observation locale

Ground

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 2000 at W. M. Keck Observatory (4 shown).

Host System: HD 46375

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,285 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

9.00 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.914 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.920 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.24

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.533 dex

Stellar density

1.640 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-1.07 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

0.86 km/s

Activity index (log R'HK)

-4.960

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
29.55 parsec
Light-years 96.39 ly
V-band magnitude
7.91 mag
Voyager-speed travel 1,699,812 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

4.88.78.70B7.91V7.70Gaia7.17TESS6.45J6.07H6.00K4.79W15.28W25.89W35.67W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

33.809 mas

Total Proper Motion

147.716 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

111.48 mas/yr

PM Declination

-96.92 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.144 · y = 0.985 · z = 0.095

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 98.30308° · Dec 5.46251°

Galactic ℓ, b

205.992° · -1.546°

Ecliptic λ, β

98.676° · -17.727°

HTM-20 index

-1544409914

Observation Record

Photometric series

1

RV measurements

2

Stellar spectra

2

Archive notes

5

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