Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2024

IRAS 04125+2902 b

A gas giant orbiting the k-type orange IRAS 04125+2902, located approximately 519.4 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 10.74 Earth radii
  • A mass of 80.80 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 0.70 g
  • An orbital period of 8.835 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0770 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 854 K (581 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 519.38 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.153
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 9,159,334 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

IRAS 04125+2902 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
10.74 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.958 R♃
Mass
80.80 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.254 M♃
Density
0.36 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
0.70 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.153
HZ Position Inner
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2024
Method Transit
Facility Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
Telescope 0.1 m TESS Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#1703of 1771

top 96.1%

This planet

10.74R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth IRAS 04125+2902 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0010.7411.21
Mass (M⊕)1.0080.80317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.510.361.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.000.702.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0041.420.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 56658270

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 164800235906366976

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 164800235906366976

System

TOI-6963

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 10.738 R⊕ · percentile 4 / cohort 1771
Mass 80.800 M⊕ · percentile 3 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 8.83 d · percentile 43 / cohort 1533
Distance 159.24 pc · percentile 45 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.153 · percentile 37 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
8.835 days
Semi-major axis
0.0770 AU
Eccentricity
Inclination
88.30 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 8.83 Earth days (2.4% of a terrestrial year) at a mean orbital distance of 0.0770 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.613 %

Duration

5.995 h

Impact parameter b

0.340

Rp / R★

0.067900

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,458,821.8251

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 6,132 ppm lasting ≈ 6.00 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.067900

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

11.420

Impact parameter (b)

0.340

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,458,821.8251

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.48400

Eq. Temperature

854K

(581 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

41.42

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.153

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the surface is too hot to retain surface water. Close-orbiting tidally-locked around a cool host.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Barber et al. 2024

Instrument

TESS CCD Array

Publication

2024-11

Observation locale

Space

Host System: IRAS 04125+2902

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,080 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

0.00 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.450 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.700 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

3.847 dex

Stellar density

0.361 g/cm³

Rotational v·sin i

7.10 km/s

Rotation period

11.31 days

Distance
159.24 parsec
Light-years 519.38 ly
V-band magnitude
15.64 mag
Voyager-speed travel 9,159,334 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

4.719.719.74U18.12B15.64V13.99Gaia12.81TESS16.81Sloan g14.66Sloan r16.91Sloan i12.57Sloan z10.71J9.76H9.38K9.04W18.89W28.60W34.74W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

6.252 mas

Total Proper Motion

21.619 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

12.34 mas/yr

PM Declination

-17.75 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.384 · y = 0.784 · z = 0.487

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 63.92834° · Dec 29.16654°

Galactic ℓ, b

167.736° · -15.434°

Ecliptic λ, β

67.208° · 7.767°

HTM-20 index

-87264233

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