Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2021

TOI-1054.01

A sub-neptune orbiting the f-type yellow-white TOI-1054, located approximately 288.4 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 2.43 Earth radii
  • A mass of 6.50 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.10 g
  • An orbital period of 15.508 days
  • Equilibrium temperature 853 K (580 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 288.43 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.299
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 5,086,529 years

TOI-1054.01 Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
2.43 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.217 R♃
Mass
6.50 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.021 M♃
Density
2.48 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.10 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Sub-Neptune

ESI Score 0.299
HZ Position Inner
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2021
Method Transit
Facility Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
Telescope 0.1 m TESS Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#1278of 1978

top 64.6%

This planet

2.43R⊕

Sub-Neptune median

2.71R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth TOI-1054.01 Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.002.4311.21
Mass (M⊕)1.006.50317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.512.481.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.102.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0088.070.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HIP

HIP 99212

TIC

TIC 366989877

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 6473033932942902528

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 6473033932942902528

System

TOI-1054

Percentile among Sub-Neptune cohort

Radius 2.434 R⊕ · percentile 35 / cohort 1978
Mass 6.500 M⊕ · percentile 33 / cohort 1978
Orbital period 15.51 d · percentile 51 / cohort 1946
Distance 88.43 pc · percentile 19 / cohort 1975
ESI 0.299 · percentile 28 / cohort 1978

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
15.508 days
Semi-major axis
AU
Eccentricity
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 15.51 Earth days (4.2% of a terrestrial year).

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.051 %

Duration

4.565 h

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,460,122.7001

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 513 ppm lasting ≈ 4.57 h.

Eq. Temperature

853K

(580 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

88.07

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.299

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the surface is too hot to retain surface water.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Giacalone et al. 2021

Instrument

TESS CCD Array

Publication

2021-01

Observation locale

Space

Host System: TOI-1054

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,122 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

Stellar Radius

1.170 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.140 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

Distance
88.43 parsec
Light-years 288.43 ly
V-band magnitude
8.95 mag
Voyager-speed travel 5,086,529 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

7.59.59.48B8.95V8.82Gaia8.44TESS7.91J7.64H7.58K7.54W17.59W27.59W37.47W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

11.279 mas

Total Proper Motion

15.982 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

1.59 mas/yr

PM Declination

-15.90 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.310 · y = -0.494 · z = -0.812

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 302.11417° · Dec -54.31750°

Galactic ℓ, b

343.855° · -32.790°

Ecliptic λ, β

291.768° · -33.279°

HTM-20 index

-2136833701

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