Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 13.30 Earth radii
A mass of 797.75 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 4.51 g
An orbital period of 600.100 days
Semi-major axis 1.6000 AU
Distance from Earth 84.71 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.382
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 1,493,824 years

1 sibling around HD 60532

HD 60532 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 60532 b	Gas Giant	13.80	336.90	201.900	—	2008
HD 60532 c this	Gas Giant	13.30	797.75	600.100	—	2008

HD 60532 c Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

13.30 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

1.180 R♃

Mass

797.75 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

2.510 M♃

Density

1.86 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

4.51 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.382

HZ Position Unknown

Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2008

Method Radial Velocity

Facility La Silla Observatory

Telescope 3.6 m ESO Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#793of 1771

top 44.7%

This planet

13.30R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

HD 12661 b 13.30 R⊕ HD 129445 b 13.30 R⊕ GJ 876 b 13.30 R⊕

Metric	Earth	HD 60532 c	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	13.30	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	797.75	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	1.86	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	4.51	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	—	0.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method	Value	Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i)	797.753 M⊕	Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD 60532

HIP

HIP 36795

TIC

TIC 456871289

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 5619121248264726272

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 5619121248267202688

System

HD 60532

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 13.300 R⊕ · percentile 53 / cohort 1771

Mass 797.753 M⊕ · percentile 62 / cohort 1747

Orbital period 600.10 d · percentile 70 / cohort 1533

Distance 25.97 pc · percentile 6 / cohort 1759

ESI 0.382 · percentile 80 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

600.100 days

Semi-major axis

1.6000 AU

Eccentricity

0.030

Inclination

— °

Year Length

A year here lasts about 1.64 Earth years on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 1.6000 AU.

Eq. Temperature

—

Insolation (S⊕)

—

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.382

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Desort et al. 2008

Instrument

HARPS Spectrograph

Publication

2008-12

Observation locale

Ground

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 2008 at La Silla Observatory (12 shown).

HD 285968 b · Sub-Neptune HD 47186 b · Neptune-like HD 145377 b · Gas Giant BD-17 63 b · Gas Giant HD 73267 b · Gas Giant HD 153950 b · Gas Giant HD 181433 d · Gas Giant HD 45364 b · Neptune-like HD 20868 b · Gas Giant HD 60532 b · Gas Giant HD 45364 c · Gas Giant HD 47186 c · Gas Giant

Host System: HD 60532

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,245 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

2.80 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

2.570 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.500 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.26

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

3.800 dex

Stellar density

0.093 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

60.70 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

8.00 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

25.97 parsec

Light-years 84.71 ly

V-band magnitude

4.44 mag

Voyager-speed travel 1,493,824 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 12 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

38.477 mas

Total Proper Motion

61.213 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-39.84 mas/yr

PM Declination

46.48 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.369 · y = 0.848 · z = -0.379

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 113.51307° · Dec -22.29587°

Galactic ℓ, b

237.498° · -1.190°

Ecliptic λ, β

120.463° · -43.280°

HTM-20 index

-68995216

Observation Record

Photometric series

RV measurements

Archive notes