Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2022

HD 69123 b

A gas giant orbiting the k-type orange HD 69123, located approximately 245.0 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 13.10 Earth radii
  • A mass of 982.09 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 5.72 g
  • An orbital period of 1,193.300 days
  • Semi-major axis 2.4820 AU
  • Distance from Earth 245.00 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.400
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 4,320,493 years

HD 69123 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
13.10 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.170 R♃
Mass
982.09 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
3.090 M♃
Density
2.40 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
5.72 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.400
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2022
Method Radial Velocity
Facility La Silla Observatory
Telescope 1.2 m Leonhard Euler Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#910of 1771

top 51.3%

This planet

13.10R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth HD 69123 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0013.1011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.00982.09317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.512.401.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.005.722.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Best measured mass 982.090 M⊕ Direct mass measurement (not derived).
Minimum mass (M sin i) 966.198 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD

HD 69123

HIP

HIP 40344

TIC

TIC 146264536

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 5544699390684005248

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 5544699390684005248

System

HD 69123

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 13.100 R⊕ · percentile 46 / cohort 1771
Mass 982.090 M⊕ · percentile 66 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 1,193.30 d · percentile 80 / cohort 1533
Distance 75.12 pc · percentile 29 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.400 · percentile 86 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
1,193.300 days
Semi-major axis
2.4820 AU
Eccentricity
0.190
Inclination
70.00 °

Year Length

A year here lasts about 3.27 Earth years on a mildly elliptical path at a mean orbital distance of 2.4820 AU.

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.400

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

Ottoni et al. 2022

Instrument

CORALIE Spectrograph

Publication

2022-01

Observation locale

Ground

Host System: HD 69123

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,842 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

Stellar Radius

7.720 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.680 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.05

Distance
75.12 parsec
Light-years 245.00 ly
V-band magnitude
5.77 mag
Voyager-speed travel 4,320,493 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

2.66.86.80B5.77V5.50Gaia4.89TESS4.43J3.72H3.59K2.56W13.15W23.39W33.36W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

13.284 mas

Total Proper Motion

51.194 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-46.40 mas/yr

PM Declination

21.63 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.450 · y = 0.679 · z = -0.581

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 123.55499° · Dec -35.48992°

Galactic ℓ, b

253.317° · -0.495°

Ecliptic λ, β

138.968° · -53.375°

HTM-20 index

-713210259

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