Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2021

HIP 5763 b

A gas giant orbiting the k-type orange HIP 5763, located approximately 104.1 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 14.20 Earth radii
  • A mass of 162.09 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 0.80 g
  • An orbital period of 30.014 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.1700 AU
  • Distance from Earth 104.06 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.255
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 1,835,059 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

HIP 5763 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
14.20 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.270 R♃
Mass
162.09 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.510 M♃
Density
0.31 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
0.80 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.255
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2021
Method Radial Velocity
Facility Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
Telescope 1.5 m SMARTS telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#334of 1771

top 18.8%

This planet

14.20R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth HIP 5763 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0014.2011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.00162.09317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.510.311.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.000.802.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i) 162.092 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HIP

HIP 5763

TIC

TIC 408290683

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2783854903410922496

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2783854903410922496

System

HIP 5763

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 14.200 R⊕ · percentile 79 / cohort 1771
Mass 162.092 M⊕ · percentile 13 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 30.01 d · percentile 49 / cohort 1533
Distance 31.90 pc · percentile 8 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.255 · percentile 46 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
30.014 days
Semi-major axis
0.1700 AU
Eccentricity
0.054
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 30.01 Earth days (8.2% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1700 AU.

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.255

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

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

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Paredes et al. 2021

Instrument

CHIRON spectrometer

Publication

2021-11

Observation locale

Ground

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 2021 at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (2 shown).

Host System: HIP 5763

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,352 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

Stellar Radius

0.750 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.720 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

Distance
31.90 parsec
Light-years 104.06 ly
V-band magnitude
9.82 mag
Voyager-speed travel 1,835,059 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

6.911.010.99B9.82V9.39Gaia8.66TESS7.57J7.04H6.91K6.86W16.90W26.89W36.85W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

31.315 mas

Total Proper Motion

59.340 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

14.44 mas/yr

PM Declination

-57.56 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.909 · y = 0.304 · z = 0.284

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 18.49534° · Dec 16.49427°

Galactic ℓ, b

130.728° · -46.036°

Ecliptic λ, β

23.317° · 8.019°

HTM-20 index

882472519

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