Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2016

Pr0211 c

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 12.60 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2,475.90 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 15.60 g
  • An orbital period of 4,850.000 days
  • Semi-major axis 5.5000 AU
  • Distance from Earth 595.93 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.417
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 10,509,272 years

Context from the literature

Pr0211 is a Sun-like late G or early K-type main-sequence star in the Beehive Cluster, or Praesepe, located 600 light-years away in the constellation Cancer. It is rotationally variable and has a rotation period of 7.97 days, with its spin axis at an inclination of 76°±11° to the plane of the sky. Pr0211 hosts two known exoplanets, and was the first multi-planet system to be discovered in an open cluster.

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1 sibling around Pr0211

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

Pr0211 c Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
12.60 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.120 R♃
Mass
2,475.90 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
7.790 M♃
Density
6.80 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
15.60 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.417
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2016
Method Radial Velocity
Facility Roque de los Muchachos Observatory
Telescope 3.58 m Telescopio Nazionale Galileo

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#1179of 1771

top 66.5%

This planet

12.60R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth Pr0211 c Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0012.6011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002,475.90317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.516.801.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.0015.602.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i) 2,475.896 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 12.600 R⊕ · percentile 31 / cohort 1771
Mass 2,475.896 M⊕ · percentile 83 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 4,850.00 d · percentile 92 / cohort 1533
Distance 182.71 pc · percentile 48 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.417 · percentile 91 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
4,850.000 days
Semi-major axis
5.5000 AU
Eccentricity
0.710
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts about 13.28 Earth years on a highly eccentric trajectory at a mean orbital distance of 5.5000 AU.

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.417

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Malavolta et al. 2016

Instrument

HARPS-N Spectrograph

Publication

2016-04

Observation locale

Ground

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 2016 at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (4 shown).

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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