Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2019

HD 50499 c

A gas giant orbiting the g-type yellow (sun-like) HD 50499, located approximately 151.0 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 13.20 Earth radii
  • A mass of 931.24 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 5.34 g
  • An orbital period of 8,619.900 days
  • Semi-major axis 9.0200 AU
  • Distance from Earth 150.96 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.394
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 2,662,174 years

1 sibling around HD 50499

HD 50499 c shares its host star with 1 other confirmed planet. Side-by-side measurements below.

Planet Type Radius (R⊕) Mass (M⊕) Period (d) Eq. T (K) Year
HD 50499 b Gas Giant 13.50 519.97 2,447.100 2005
HD 50499 c this Gas Giant 13.20 931.24 8,619.900 2019

HD 50499 c Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
13.20 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.170 R♃
Mass
931.24 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
2.930 M♃
Density
2.22 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
5.34 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.394
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2019
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 50499 c Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0013.2011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.00931.24317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.512.221.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.005.342.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i) 931.242 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD

HD 50499

HIP

HIP 32970

TIC

TIC 53175558

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 5579783574073770112

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 5579783574073770112

System

HD 50499

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 13.200 R⊕ · percentile 49 / cohort 1771
Mass 931.242 M⊕ · percentile 65 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 8,619.90 d · percentile 95 / cohort 1533
Distance 46.28 pc · percentile 17 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.394 · percentile 84 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
8,619.900 days
Semi-major axis
9.0200 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts about 23.60 Earth years on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 9.0200 AU.

Extended Orbital Architecture

RV semi-amplitude (K)

24.230 m/s

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,452,710.0000

Long. of periastron (ω)

23.00°

Angular separation (arcsec)

195.00000

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.394

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Rickman et al. 2019

Instrument

CORALIE Spectrograph

Publication

2019-05

Observation locale

Ground

Host System: HD 50499

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

6,099 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

2.40 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.420 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.310 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.38

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.420 dex

Stellar density

0.510 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

36.94 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

4.31 km/s

Rotation period

22.40 days

Activity index (log R'HK)

-5.020

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
46.28 parsec
Light-years 150.96 ly
V-band magnitude
7.21 mag
Voyager-speed travel 2,662,174 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

5.77.87.82B7.21V7.06Gaia6.66TESS6.15J5.88H5.84K5.84W15.75W25.84W35.77W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

21.577 mas

Total Proper Motion

97.171 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-69.33 mas/yr

PM Declination

68.09 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.187 · y = 0.809 · z = -0.558

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 103.00808° · Dec -33.91527°

Galactic ℓ, b

243.878° · -14.626°

Ecliptic λ, β

109.759° · -56.466°

HTM-20 index

820500915

Observation Record

Photometric series

1

RV measurements

1

Stellar spectra

2

Archive notes

1

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