Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2022

HD 62364 b

A gas giant orbiting the f-type yellow-white HD 62364, located approximately 173.2 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 12.10 Earth radii
  • A mass of 5,965.64 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 40.75 g
  • An orbital period of 5,138.000 days
  • Semi-major axis 6.1500 AU
  • Distance from Earth 173.23 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.299
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 3,054,875 years

HD 62364 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
12.10 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.080 R♃
Mass
5,965.64 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
18.770 M♃
Density
18.50 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
40.75 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.299
HZ Position Outer
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2022
Method Radial Velocity
Facility Multiple Observatories
Telescope Multiple Telescopes

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#1454of 1771

top 82.0%

This planet

12.10R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth HD 62364 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0012.1011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.005,965.64317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.5118.501.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.0040.752.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.070.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Best measured mass 5,965.639 M⊕ Direct mass measurement (not derived).
Minimum mass (M sin i) 4,036.421 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD

HD 62364

HIP

HIP 36941

TIC

TIC 271972463

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 5214209564293214208

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 5214209564293214208

System

HD 62364

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 12.100 R⊕ · percentile 16 / cohort 1771
Mass 5,965.639 M⊕ · percentile 96 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 5,138.00 d · percentile 92 / cohort 1533
Distance 53.11 pc · percentile 21 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.299 · percentile 58 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
5,138.000 days
Semi-major axis
6.1500 AU
Eccentricity
0.607
Inclination
137.30 °

Year Length

A year here lasts about 14.07 Earth years on a highly eccentric trajectory at a mean orbital distance of 6.1500 AU.

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

0.07

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.299

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Detection Signatures

Radial velocity

Stellar wobble has been measured spectroscopically.

Astrometry

Positional wobble of the host star was measured.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Feng et al. 2022

Instrument

Multiple Instruments

Publication

2022-09

Observation locale

Ground

Host System: HD 62364

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,255 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.90 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.401 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.157 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.11

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.140 dex

Stellar density

0.560 g/cm³

Rotational v·sin i

3.80 km/s

Rotation period

14.00 days

Activity index (log R'HK)

-5.020

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
53.11 parsec
Light-years 173.23 ly
V-band magnitude
7.32 mag
Voyager-speed travel 3,054,875 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

5.97.87.84B7.32V7.18Gaia6.81TESS6.35J6.12H6.00K6.11W15.92W26.02W35.96W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

18.799 mas

Total Proper Motion

123.683 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-123.36 mas/yr

PM Declination

-8.97 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.101 · y = 0.228 · z = -0.968

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 113.90527° · Dec -75.54427°

Galactic ℓ, b

287.434° · -23.515°

Ecliptic λ, β

240.079° · -78.298°

HTM-20 index

-1505268321

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