Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

NGC 2682 YBP 401 b

A gas giant orbiting the f-type yellow-white NGC 2682 YBP 401, located approximately 2,709.8 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 14.30 Earth radii
  • A mass of 146.20 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 0.71 g
  • An orbital period of 4.087 days
  • Distance from Earth 2,709.78 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.247
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 47,786,894 years

NGC 2682 YBP 401 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
14.30 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.270 R♃
Mass
146.20 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.460 M♃
Density
0.28 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
0.71 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.247
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2016
Method Radial Velocity
Facility La Silla Observatory
Telescope 3.6 m ESO 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 NGC 2682 YBP 401 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0014.3011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.00146.20317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.510.281.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.000.712.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i) 146.202 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 437038987

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 604909657895767680

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 604909657895767680

System

NGC 2682 YBP 401

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 14.300 R⊕ · percentile 82 / cohort 1771
Mass 146.202 M⊕ · percentile 12 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 4.09 d · percentile 30 / cohort 1533
Distance 830.82 pc · percentile 84 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.247 · percentile 44 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
4.087 days
Semi-major axis
AU
Eccentricity
0.150
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 4.09 Earth days (1.1% of a terrestrial year) on a mildly elliptical path.

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.247

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Brucalassi et al. 2016

Instrument

HARPS Spectrograph

Publication

2016-07

Observation locale

Ground

Host System: NGC 2682 YBP 401

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,165 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

Stellar Radius

1.216 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.140 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.05

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.300 dex

Stellar density

0.839 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

33.18 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[M/H]

Distance
830.82 parsec
Light-years 2,709.78 ly
V-band magnitude
13.70 mag
Voyager-speed travel 47,786,894 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

8.515.715.69U14.32B13.70V13.59Gaia13.20TESS15.06Sloan g13.25Sloan r15.49Sloan i13.97Sloan z12.64J12.38H12.34K12.28W112.31W211.88W38.45W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.175 mas

Total Proper Motion

11.454 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-11.08 mas/yr

PM Declination

-2.90 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.666 · y = 0.718 · z = 0.202

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 132.82931° · Dec 11.67103°

Galactic ℓ, b

215.836° · 31.846°

Ecliptic λ, β

131.995° · -5.744°

HTM-20 index

-1153755513

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