Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2019

HD 97048 b

A gas giant orbiting the b-type blue-white HD 97048, located approximately 599.7 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 13.30 Earth radii
  • A mass of 794.58 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 4.49 g
  • Semi-major axis 130.0000 AU
  • Distance from Earth 599.66 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.382
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 10,575,015 years

HD 97048 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
13.30 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.180 R♃
Mass
794.58 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
2.500 M♃
Density
1.86 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
4.49 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.382
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2019
Method Disk Kinematics
Facility Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)
Telescope Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#793of 1771

top 44.7%

This planet

13.30R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth HD 97048 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0013.3011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.00794.58317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.511.861.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.004.492.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Best measured mass 794.575 M⊕ Direct mass measurement (not derived).

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD

HD 97048

HIP

HIP 54413

TIC

TIC 454291762

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 5201128124701636864

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 5201128124701636864

System

HD 97048

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 13.300 R⊕ · percentile 53 / cohort 1771
Mass 794.575 M⊕ · percentile 61 / cohort 1747
Distance 183.86 pc · percentile 48 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.382 · percentile 80 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
days
Semi-major axis
130.0000 AU
Eccentricity
Inclination
40.00 °

Year Length

Orbital period for this planet has not yet been measured.

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.382

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Pinte et al. 2019

Instrument

12-m Array

Publication

2019-08

Observation locale

Ground

Host System: HD 97048

Spectral Class

B-type blue-white

Effective Temperature

10,000 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

0.00 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

2.250 R☉

Stellar Mass

2.400 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

Distance
183.86 parsec
Light-years 599.66 ly
V-band magnitude
8.44 mag
Voyager-speed travel 10,575,015 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

-1.38.88.79B8.44V8.34Gaia8.07TESS7.27J6.67H5.94K4.47W14.47W21.34W3-1.32W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

5.411 mas

Total Proper Motion

22.475 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-22.44 mas/yr

PM Declination

1.30 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.208 · y = 0.048 · z = -0.977

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 167.01334° · Dec -77.65485°

Galactic ℓ, b

297.370° · -15.914°

Ecliptic λ, β

238.833° · -66.260°

HTM-20 index

-768654681

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