Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2019

HIP 35173 b

A sub-neptune orbiting the k-type orange HIP 35173, located approximately 108.1 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 3.61 Earth radii
  • A mass of 12.70 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 0.97 g
  • An orbital period of 41.516 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.2170 AU
  • Distance from Earth 108.14 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.577
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 1,907,065 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

HIP 35173 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
3.61 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.322 R♃
Mass
12.70 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.040 M♃
Density
1.48 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
0.97 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Sub-Neptune

ESI Score 0.577
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2019
Method Radial Velocity
Facility Las Campanas Observatory
Telescope 6.5 m Magellan II Clay Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#132of 1978

top 6.6%

This planet

3.61R⊕

Sub-Neptune median

2.71R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth HIP 35173 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.003.6111.21
Mass (M⊕)1.0012.70317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.511.481.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.000.972.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i) 12.700 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HIP

HIP 35173

TIC

TIC 50992589

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 3059948148669499008

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 3059948148669499008

System

HIP 35173

Percentile among Sub-Neptune cohort

Radius 3.610 R⊕ · percentile 93 / cohort 1978
Mass 12.700 M⊕ · percentile 86 / cohort 1978
Orbital period 41.52 d · percentile 81 / cohort 1946
Distance 33.16 pc · percentile 8 / cohort 1975
ESI 0.577 · percentile 80 / cohort 1978

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
41.516 days
Semi-major axis
0.2170 AU
Eccentricity
0.160
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 41.52 Earth days (11.4% of a terrestrial year) on a mildly elliptical path at a mean orbital distance of 0.2170 AU.

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.577

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Insufficient insolation data. Close-orbiting tidally-locked around a cool host.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Feng et al. 2019

Instrument

Carnegie Planet Finder Spectrograph

Publication

2019-06

Observation locale

Ground

Host System: HIP 35173

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,881 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

Stellar Radius

0.773 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.790 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.519 dex

Stellar density

2.111 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

11.08 km/s

Distance
33.16 parsec
Light-years 108.14 ly
V-band magnitude
9.01 mag
Voyager-speed travel 1,907,065 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

6.610.110.11B9.01V8.71Gaia8.10TESS7.26J6.80H6.67K6.61W16.67W26.66W36.70W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

30.132 mas

Total Proper Motion

116.671 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

105.08 mas/yr

PM Declination

-50.69 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.326 · y = 0.943 · z = -0.064

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 109.04493° · Dec -3.66613°

Galactic ℓ, b

219.027° · 3.815°

Ecliptic λ, β

111.185° · -25.715°

HTM-20 index

-1723908653

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