Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 13.00 Earth radii
A mass of 1,144.19 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 6.77 g
An orbital period of 1,270.000 days
Semi-major axis 2.7200 AU
Distance from Earth 684.40 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.411
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 12,069,437 years

HD 86950 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

13.00 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

1.160 R♃

Mass

1,144.19 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

3.600 M♃

Density

2.86 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

6.77 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.411

HZ Position Unknown

Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2016

Method Radial Velocity

Facility Multiple Observatories

Telescope Multiple Telescopes

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#960of 1771

top 54.2%

This planet

13.00R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

HIP 14810 b 13.00 R⊕ HD 47186 c 13.00 R⊕ WASP-107 c 13.00 R⊕

Metric	Earth	HD 86950 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	13.00	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	1,144.19	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	2.86	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	6.77	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	—	0.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method	Value	Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i)	1,144.188 M⊕	Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD 86950

HIP

HIP 49129

TIC

TIC 332711151

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 5673523262530712832

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 5673523262530712832

System

HD 86950

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 13.000 R⊕ · percentile 43 / cohort 1771

Mass 1,144.188 M⊕ · percentile 70 / cohort 1747

Orbital period 1,270.00 d · percentile 80 / cohort 1533

Distance 209.84 pc · percentile 51 / cohort 1759

ESI 0.411 · percentile 88 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

1,270.000 days

Semi-major axis

2.7200 AU

Eccentricity

0.170

Inclination

— °

Year Length

A year here lasts about 3.48 Earth years on a mildly elliptical path at a mean orbital distance of 2.7200 AU.

Eq. Temperature

—

Insolation (S⊕)

—

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.411

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Wittenmyer et al. 2017

Instrument

Multiple Instruments

Publication

2017-02

Observation locale

Ground

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 2016 at Multiple Observatories (12 shown).

HD 42618 b · Sub-Neptune HD 164922 c · Sub-Neptune HD 224538 b · Gas Giant HD 30177 c · Gas Giant Kepler-56 d · Gas Giant HD 72892 b · Gas Giant HD 147873 b · Gas Giant HIP 8541 b · Gas Giant HD 68402 b · Gas Giant HD 165155 b · Gas Giant rho CrB c · Neptune-like HIP 74890 b · Gas Giant

Host System: HD 86950

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,805 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

—

Stellar Radius

8.800 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.660 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.04

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

2.660 dex

Systemic radial velocity

10.75 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

209.84 parsec

Light-years 684.40 ly

V-band magnitude

7.47 mag

Voyager-speed travel 12,069,437 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

4.737 mas

Total Proper Motion

14.206 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-9.44 mas/yr

PM Declination

-10.62 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.830 · y = 0.471 · z = -0.298

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 150.40666° · Dec -17.33307°

Galactic ℓ, b

255.233° · 29.406°

Ecliptic λ, β

159.275° · -27.443°

HTM-20 index

1431874879

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Radius 13.00 R⊕ · 515.3 ly

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