Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2023

TOI-1338 c

A gas giant orbiting the f-type yellow-white TOI-1338 A, located approximately 1,301.4 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 10.30 Earth radii
  • A mass of 75.40 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 0.71 g
  • An orbital period of 215.790 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.7940 AU
  • Distance from Earth 1,301.42 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.300
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 22,950,503 years

1 sibling around TOI-1338 A

TOI-1338 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
TOI-1338 b Neptune-like 7.66 11.30 95.400 255 2020
TOI-1338 c this Gas Giant 10.30 75.40 215.790 2023
brightness_6

Circumbinary planet

TOI-1338 c orbits a binary-star pair rather than a single host — a minority architecture in the confirmed catalogue.

TOI-1338 c Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
10.30 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.920 R♃
Mass
75.40 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.237 M♃
Density
0.38 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
0.71 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.300
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2023
Method Radial Velocity
Facility Multiple Observatories
Telescope Multiple Telescopes

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#1743of 1771

top 98.4%

This planet

10.30R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth TOI-1338 c Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0010.3011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.0075.40317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.510.381.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.000.712.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Best measured mass 75.400 M⊕ Direct mass measurement (not derived).
Minimum mass (M sin i) 74.372 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 260128333

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 5494443978353833088

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 5494443978353833088

System

TOI-1338

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 10.300 R⊕ · percentile 1 / cohort 1771
Mass 75.400 M⊕ · percentile 2 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 215.79 d · percentile 58 / cohort 1533
Distance 399.02 pc · percentile 70 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.300 · percentile 58 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
215.790 days
Semi-major axis
0.7940 AU
Eccentricity
0.037
Inclination
97.00 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 215.79 Earth days (59.1% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.7940 AU.

Extended Orbital Architecture

RV semi-amplitude (K)

5.600 m/s

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,459,208.7000

Long. of periastron (ω)

344.64°

Angular separation (arcsec)

1.99000

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.300

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Standing et al. 2023

Instrument

Multiple Instruments

Publication

2023-01

Observation locale

Ground

Host System: TOI-1338 A

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

5,723 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.40 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.313 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.094 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.01

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.000 dex

Stellar density

0.411 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

30.75 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

3.60 km/s

Rotation period

19.00 days

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
399.02 parsec
Light-years 1,301.42 ly
V-band magnitude
11.72 mag
Voyager-speed travel 22,950,503 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

9.112.412.37B11.72V11.88Gaia11.49TESS10.95J10.70H10.64K10.58W110.60W210.51W39.15W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

2.477 mas

Total Proper Motion

36.523 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-12.26 mas/yr

PM Declination

34.40 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.019 · y = 0.507 · z = -0.862

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 92.13310° · Dec -59.54099°

Galactic ℓ, b

268.412° · -28.491°

Ecliptic λ, β

98.796° · -82.915°

HTM-20 index

-296798817

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