Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 14.00 Earth radii
A mass of 227.88 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 1.16 g
An orbital period of 498.040 days
Semi-major axis 1.3320 AU
Distance from Earth 278.21 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.281
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 4,906,286 years

HD 96167 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

14.00 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

1.250 R♃

Mass

227.88 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.717 M♃

Density

0.46 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

1.16 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.281

HZ Position Unknown

Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2009

Method Radial Velocity

Facility W. M. Keck Observatory

Telescope 10 m Keck I Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#415of 1771

top 23.4%

This planet

14.00R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

HD 9446 b 14.00 R⊕ HD 156411 b 14.00 R⊕ HD 224693 b 14.00 R⊕

Metric	Earth	HD 96167 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	14.00	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	227.88	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	0.46	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	1.16	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	—	0.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method	Value	Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i)	227.884 M⊕	Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD 96167

HIP

HIP 54195

TIC

TIC 286277386

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 3758718711877270784

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 3758718711877270784

System

HD 96167

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 14.000 R⊕ · percentile 74 / cohort 1771

Mass 227.884 M⊕ · percentile 24 / cohort 1747

Orbital period 498.04 d · percentile 67 / cohort 1533

Distance 85.30 pc · percentile 31 / cohort 1759

ESI 0.281 · percentile 52 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

498.040 days

Semi-major axis

1.3320 AU

Eccentricity

0.685

Inclination

— °

Year Length

A year here lasts about 1.36 Earth years on a highly eccentric trajectory at a mean orbital distance of 1.3320 AU.

Eq. Temperature

—

Insolation (S⊕)

—

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.281

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Peek et al. 2009

Instrument

HIRES Spectrometer

Publication

2009-06

Observation locale

Ground

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 2009 at W. M. Keck Observatory (12 shown).

HD 13931 b · Gas Giant HAT-P-13 c · Gas Giant HD 181342 b · Gas Giant HD 212771 b · Gas Giant HD 136418 b · Gas Giant HIP 79431 b · Gas Giant HD 206610 b · Gas Giant HD 4313 b · Gas Giant HD 180902 b · Gas Giant HD 95089 b · Gas Giant GJ 179 b · Gas Giant HD 34445 b · Gas Giant

Host System: HD 96167

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,733 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.85 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.940 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.270 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.34

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

3.990 dex

Stellar density

0.197 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

12.05 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

3.80 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

85.30 parsec

Light-years 278.21 ly

V-band magnitude

8.09 mag

Voyager-speed travel 4,906,286 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

11.695 mas

Total Proper Motion

51.380 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-50.49 mas/yr

PM Declination

-9.50 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.956 · y = 0.233 · z = -0.179

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 166.31257° · Dec -10.29135°

Galactic ℓ, b

264.808° · 44.578°

Ecliptic λ, β

171.515° · -14.864°

HTM-20 index

1032895867

Observation Record

Photometric series

RV measurements

Stellar spectra

Archive notes