Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 12.60 Earth radii
A mass of 2,707.58 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 17.05 g
An orbital period of 14,306.885 days
Semi-major axis 11.8420 AU
Distance from Earth 160.89 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.406
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 2,837,372 years

HD 62549 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

12.60 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

1.120 R♃

Mass

2,707.58 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

8.519 M♃

Density

7.44 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

17.05 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.406

HZ Position Unknown

Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2022

Method Radial Velocity

Facility Multiple Observatories

Telescope Multiple Telescopes

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#1179of 1771

top 66.5%

This planet

12.60R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Kepler-419 c 12.60 R⊕ 2MASS J04414489+2301513 b 12.60 R⊕ HD 47536 b 12.60 R⊕

Metric	Earth	HD 62549 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	12.60	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	2,707.58	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	7.44	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	17.05	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	—	0.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method	Value	Interpretation
Best measured mass	2,707.580 M⊕	Direct mass measurement (not derived).

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD 62549

TIC

TIC 68061731

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 3056551894686671616

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 3056551894686671616

System

HD 62549

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 12.600 R⊕ · percentile 31 / cohort 1771

Mass 2,707.580 M⊕ · percentile 85 / cohort 1747

Orbital period 14,306.89 d · percentile 96 / cohort 1533

Distance 49.33 pc · percentile 19 / cohort 1759

ESI 0.406 · percentile 87 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

14,306.885 days

Semi-major axis

11.8420 AU

Eccentricity

0.150

Inclination

162.31 °

Year Length

A year here lasts about 39.17 Earth years on a mildly elliptical path at a mean orbital distance of 11.8420 AU.

Eq. Temperature

—

Insolation (S⊕)

—

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.406

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Feng et al. 2022

Instrument

Multiple Instruments

Publication

2022-09

Observation locale

Ground

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 2022 at Multiple Observatories (12 shown).

Kepler-138 e · Rocky Terrestrial HD 93351 b · Super-Earth GJ 1002 b · Rocky Terrestrial GJ 2030 b · Sub-Neptune GJ 3929 c · Sub-Neptune HD 217786 c · Sub-Neptune GJ 1002 c · Rocky Terrestrial HD 155918 b · Sub-Neptune HD 213519 b · Sub-Neptune HD 191939 g · Sub-Neptune GJ 514 b · Sub-Neptune HD 12235 b · Sub-Neptune

Host System: HD 62549

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,930 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

—

Stellar Radius

1.232 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.080 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

—

Distance

49.33 parsec

Light-years 160.89 ly

V-band magnitude

7.72 mag

Voyager-speed travel 2,837,372 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

20.243 mas

Total Proper Motion

193.369 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-30.17 mas/yr

PM Declination

191.00 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.438 · y = 0.895 · z = -0.088

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 116.08214° · Dec -5.05412°

Galactic ℓ, b

223.579° · 9.358°

Ecliptic λ, β

119.128° · -25.894°

HTM-20 index

-1770971645