Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

HIP 109600 b

A gas giant orbiting the g-type yellow (sun-like) HIP 109600, located approximately 216.4 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 13.20 Earth radii
  • A mass of 851.78 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 4.89 g
  • An orbital period of 232.080 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.7060 AU
  • Distance from Earth 216.36 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.389
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 3,815,494 years

HIP 109600 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
13.20 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.180 R♃
Mass
851.78 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
2.680 M♃
Density
2.04 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
4.89 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.389
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2016
Method Radial Velocity
Facility Haute-Provence Observatory
Telescope 1.93 m Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#847of 1771

top 47.8%

This planet

13.20R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth HIP 109600 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0013.2011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.00851.78317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.512.041.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.004.892.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i) 851.784 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HIP

HIP 109600

TIC

TIC 27864699

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 1894962115280642688

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 1894962115280642688

System

HIP 109600

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 13.200 R⊕ · percentile 49 / cohort 1771
Mass 851.784 M⊕ · percentile 63 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 232.08 d · percentile 58 / cohort 1533
Distance 66.34 pc · percentile 27 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.389 · percentile 82 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
232.080 days
Semi-major axis
0.7060 AU
Eccentricity
0.163
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 232.08 Earth days (63.5% of a terrestrial year) on a mildly elliptical path at a mean orbital distance of 0.7060 AU.

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.389

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Discovery Paper

Instrument

SOPHIE Spectrograph

Publication

2016-04

Observation locale

Ground

Host System: HIP 109600

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,530 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

Stellar Radius

0.972 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.870 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.12

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.450 dex

Stellar density

1.454 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-70.00 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

2.70 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
66.34 parsec
Light-years 216.36 ly
V-band magnitude
9.18 mag
Voyager-speed travel 3,815,494 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

7.49.99.90B9.18V9.00Gaia8.54TESS7.88J7.51H7.50K7.41W17.49W27.49W37.46W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

15.046 mas

Total Proper Motion

228.111 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

208.65 mas/yr

PM Declination

92.19 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.779 · y = -0.396 · z = 0.486

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 333.02708° · Dec 29.06621°

Galactic ℓ, b

85.763° · -22.076°

Ecliptic λ, β

347.651° · 37.116°

HTM-20 index

-609932920

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