Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2024

TOI-1467 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange TOI-1467, located approximately 122.1 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.92 Earth radii
  • A mass of 9.00 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 2.44 g
  • An orbital period of 5.971 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0507 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 506 K (233 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 122.12 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.501
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 2,153,563 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

TOI-1467 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.92 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.171 R♃
Mass
9.00 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.028 M♃
Density
11.00 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
2.44 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.501
HZ Position Inner
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2024
Method Transit
Facility Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
Telescope 0.1 m TESS Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#102of 1176

top 8.6%

This planet

1.92R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth TOI-1467 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.9211.21
Mass (M⊕)1.009.00317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.5111.001.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.002.442.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0018.130.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Best measured mass 9.000 M⊕ Direct mass measurement (not derived).

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 240968774

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 403141126645929728

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 403141126645929728

System

TOI-1467

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.920 R⊕ · percentile 90 / cohort 1176
Mass 9.000 M⊕ · percentile 96 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 5.97 d · percentile 47 / cohort 1164
Distance 37.44 pc · percentile 8 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.501 · percentile 73 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
5.971 days
Semi-major axis
0.0507 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
88.98 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 5.97 Earth days (1.6% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0507 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.144 %

Duration

1.578 h

Impact parameter b

0.480

Rp / R★

0.035800

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,458,766.9885

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 1,437 ppm lasting ≈ 1.58 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.035800

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

26.890

Impact parameter (b)

0.480

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,458,766.9885

Long. of periastron (ω)

90.00°

Angular separation (arcsec)

1.36000

Eq. Temperature

506K

(233 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

18.13

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.501

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the surface is too hot to retain surface water. Close-orbiting tidally-locked around a cool host.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Mistry et al. 2023

Instrument

TESS CCD Array

Publication

2023-11

Observation locale

Space

Host System: TOI-1467

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

3,834 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

7.20 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.491 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.489 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.06

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.773 dex

Stellar density

6.651 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
37.44 parsec
Light-years 122.12 ly
V-band magnitude
12.29 mag
Voyager-speed travel 2,153,563 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

7.913.813.79B12.29V11.56Gaia10.60TESS9.38J8.79H8.57K8.43W18.35W28.28W37.92W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

26.679 mas

Total Proper Motion

184.304 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

108.39 mas/yr

PM Declination

-149.06 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.617 · y = 0.214 · z = 0.757

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 19.11464° · Dec 49.23314°

Galactic ℓ, b

127.127° · -13.435°

Ecliptic λ, β

38.874° · 37.577°

HTM-20 index

429352623

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