Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

HIP 65407 b

A gas giant orbiting the k-type orange HIP 65407, located approximately 201.5 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 14.30 Earth radii
  • A mass of 136.03 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 0.67 g
  • An orbital period of 28.125 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.1770 AU
  • Distance from Earth 201.50 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.242
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 3,553,461 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

1 sibling around HIP 65407

HIP 65407 b shares its host star with 1 other confirmed planet. Side-by-side measurements below.

Planet Type Radius (R⊕) Mass (M⊕) Period (d) Eq. T (K) Year
HIP 65407 b this Gas Giant 14.30 136.03 28.125 2016
HIP 65407 c Gas Giant 13.90 249.18 67.300 2016

HIP 65407 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
14.30 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.280 R♃
Mass
136.03 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.428 M♃
Density
0.26 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
0.67 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.242
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

#301of 1771

top 16.9%

This planet

14.30R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth HIP 65407 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0014.3011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.00136.03317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.510.261.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.000.672.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i) 136.031 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HIP

HIP 65407

TIC

TIC 165454978

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 1553084230347385344

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 1553084230347385344

System

HIP 65407

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 14.300 R⊕ · percentile 82 / cohort 1771
Mass 136.031 M⊕ · percentile 10 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 28.13 d · percentile 49 / cohort 1533
Distance 61.78 pc · percentile 26 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.242 · percentile 42 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
28.125 days
Semi-major axis
0.1770 AU
Eccentricity
0.140
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 28.13 Earth days (7.7% of a terrestrial year) on a mildly elliptical path at a mean orbital distance of 0.1770 AU.

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.242

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

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

Discovery Paper

Instrument

SOPHIE Spectrograph

Publication

2016-04

Observation locale

Ground

Host System: HIP 65407

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,460 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

Stellar Radius

0.952 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.930 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.25

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.470 dex

Stellar density

1.572 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-8.72 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

2.80 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
61.78 parsec
Light-years 201.50 ly
V-band magnitude
9.38 mag
Voyager-speed travel 3,553,461 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

7.410.210.20B9.38V9.15Gaia8.65TESS7.96J7.65H7.58K7.43W17.54W27.49W37.44W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

16.157 mas

Total Proper Motion

85.576 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

0.10 mas/yr

PM Declination

-85.58 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.614 · y = -0.237 · z = 0.753

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 201.08766° · Dec 48.88473°

Galactic ℓ, b

108.799° · 67.330°

Ecliptic λ, β

172.328° · 51.751°

HTM-20 index

816367886

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