Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2011

HIP 57274 b

A unclassified orbiting the k-type orange HIP 57274, located approximately 84.3 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A mass of 3,359.45 Earth masses
  • An orbital period of 8.135 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0700 AU
  • Distance from Earth 84.35 light-years
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 1,487,509 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

2 siblings around HIP 57274

HIP 57274 b shares its host star with 2 other confirmed planets. Side-by-side measurements below.

Planet Type Radius (R⊕) Mass (M⊕) Period (d) Eq. T (K) Year
HIP 57274 b this Unclassified 3,359.45 8.135 2011
HIP 57274 c Gas Giant 14.20 130.00 32.030 2011
HIP 57274 d Gas Giant 14.20 167.40 431.700 2011

HIP 57274 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
R♃
Mass
3,359.45 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
10.570 M♃
Density
g/cm³
Surface Gravity
g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Unclassified

ESI Score
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2011
Method Radial Velocity
Facility W. M. Keck Observatory
Telescope 10 m Keck I Telescope
Metric Earth HIP 57274 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003,359.45317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.511.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.002.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Best measured mass 3,359.446 M⊕ Direct mass measurement (not derived).
Minimum mass (M sin i) 6.357 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HIP

HIP 57274

TIC

TIC 5078530

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 4021079911593673600

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 4021079911593673600

System

HIP 57274

Percentile among Unclassified cohort

Mass 3,359.446 M⊕ · percentile 81 / cohort 42
Orbital period 8.14 d · percentile 26 / cohort 43
Distance 25.86 pc · percentile 33 / cohort 43

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
8.135 days
Semi-major axis
0.0700 AU
Eccentricity
0.190
Inclination
0.20 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 8.14 Earth days (2.2% of a terrestrial year) on a mildly elliptical path at a mean orbital distance of 0.0700 AU.

Extended Orbital Architecture

RV semi-amplitude (K)

4.600 m/s

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,455,801.7790

Long. of periastron (ω)

81.00°

Angular separation (arcsec)

2.71000

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

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

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Fischer et al. 2012

Instrument

HIRES Spectrometer

Publication

2012-01

Observation locale

Ground

Host System: HIP 57274

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,510 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

7.87 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.780 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.290 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.01

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.110 dex

Stellar density

1.967 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-4.70 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

0.50 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
25.86 parsec
Light-years 84.35 ly
V-band magnitude
8.97 mag
Voyager-speed travel 1,487,509 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

6.210.110.11B8.97V8.57Gaia7.90TESS6.96J6.41H6.29K6.22W16.25W26.27W36.21W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

38.638 mas

Total Proper Motion

382.667 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-27.07 mas/yr

PM Declination

-381.71 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.856 · y = 0.057 · z = 0.514

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 176.17055° · Dec 30.95765°

Galactic ℓ, b

194.253° · 74.932°

Ecliptic λ, β

163.268° · 26.691°

HTM-20 index

1676755467

Observation Record

Photometric series

1

Stellar spectra

1

Archive notes

1

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