Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2012

Pr0211 b

A gas giant orbiting the g-type yellow (sun-like) Pr0211, located approximately 595.9 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 13.40 Earth radii
  • A mass of 597.52 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 3.33 g
  • An orbital period of 2.146 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0318 AU
  • Distance from Earth 595.93 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.361
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 10,509,272 years

1 sibling around Pr0211

Pr0211 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
Pr0211 b this Gas Giant 13.40 597.52 2.146 2012
Pr0211 c Gas Giant 12.60 2,475.90 4,850.000 2016

Pr0211 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
13.40 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.200 R♃
Mass
597.52 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
1.880 M♃
Density
1.36 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
3.33 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.361
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

#730of 1771

top 41.2%

This planet

13.40R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Pr0211 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0013.4011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.00597.52317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.511.361.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.003.332.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i) 597.520 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 175291727

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 661222279785743616

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 661222279785743616

System

Pr0211

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 13.400 R⊕ · percentile 56 / cohort 1771
Mass 597.520 M⊕ · percentile 53 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 2.15 d · percentile 8 / cohort 1533
Distance 182.71 pc · percentile 48 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.361 · percentile 74 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
2.146 days
Semi-major axis
0.0318 AU
Eccentricity
0.011
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 2.15 Earth days (0.6% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0318 AU.

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.361

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: Pr0211

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,300 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

0.58 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.827 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.935 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.18

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.510 dex

Stellar density

2.012 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

34.29 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

5.10 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
182.71 parsec
Light-years 595.93 ly
V-band magnitude
12.16 mag
Voyager-speed travel 10,509,272 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 17 bands

8.715.515.52U13.06B12.16V11.93Gaia11.90Kepler11.39TESS12.86Sloan g11.95Sloan r11.77Sloan i13.81Sloan z10.66J10.24H10.17K10.10W110.16W210.02W38.69W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

5.444 mas

Total Proper Motion

38.836 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-36.76 mas/yr

PM Declination

-12.53 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.614 · y = 0.717 · z = 0.330

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 130.54774° · Dec 19.27696°

Galactic ℓ, b

206.528° · 32.744°

Ecliptic λ, β

127.856° · 1.007°

HTM-20 index

-2087330530

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