Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2012

Pr0201 b

A gas giant orbiting the f-type yellow-white Pr0201, located approximately 589.2 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 14.20 Earth radii
  • A mass of 171.63 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 0.85 g
  • An orbital period of 4.426 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0600 AU
  • Distance from Earth 589.17 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.259
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 10,389,981 years

Pr0201 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
14.20 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.270 R♃
Mass
171.63 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.540 M♃
Density
0.33 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
0.85 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.259
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2012
Method Radial Velocity
Facility Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory
Telescope 1.5 m Tillinghast Reflector 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 Pr0201 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0014.2011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.00171.63317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.510.331.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.000.852.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i) 171.628 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 175290574

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 661424074527577600

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 661424074528836480

System

Pr0201

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 14.200 R⊕ · percentile 79 / cohort 1771
Mass 171.628 M⊕ · percentile 15 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 4.43 d · percentile 33 / cohort 1533
Distance 180.64 pc · percentile 48 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.259 · percentile 47 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
4.426 days
Semi-major axis
0.0600 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 4.43 Earth days (1.2% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0600 AU.

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.259

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Quinn et al. 2012

Instrument

TRES Echelle Spectrograph

Publication

2012-09

Observation locale

Ground

Host System: Pr0201

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,174 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

Stellar Radius

1.150 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.240 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.19

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.410 dex

Stellar density

1.035 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

33.95 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

9.60 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
180.64 parsec
Light-years 589.17 ly
V-band magnitude
10.45 mag
Voyager-speed travel 10,389,981 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 12 bands

8.111.111.11B10.45V10.35Gaia10.35Kepler9.97TESS9.46J9.23H9.14K9.13W19.16W29.14W38.07W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

5.508 mas

Total Proper Motion

39.115 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-36.54 mas/yr

PM Declination

-13.95 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.609 · y = 0.714 · z = 0.346

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 130.43240° · Dec 20.22682°

Galactic ℓ, b

205.422° · 32.970°

Ecliptic λ, β

127.505° · 1.897°

HTM-20 index

-1942029805

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