Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2022

TOI-1468 b

A super-earth orbiting the m-type red dwarf TOI-1468, located approximately 80.7 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.40 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3.04 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.55 g
  • An orbital period of 1.881 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0211 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 684 K (410 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 80.69 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.446
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 1,422,980 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

1 sibling around TOI-1468

TOI-1468 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
TOI-1468 b this Super-Earth 1.40 3.04 1.881 684 2022
TOI-1468 c Sub-Neptune 2.13 4.10 15.532 338 2022

TOI-1468 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.40 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.125 R♃
Mass
3.04 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.010 M♃
Density
6.10 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.55 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.446
HZ Position Inner
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2022
Method Transit
Facility Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
Telescope 0.1 m TESS Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#921of 1176

top 78.2%

This planet

1.40R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth TOI-1468 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.4011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003.04317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.516.101.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.552.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0036.400.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Best measured mass 3.040 M⊕ Direct mass measurement (not derived).
Minimum mass (M sin i) 3.040 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 243185500

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2785466581298775680

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2785466581298775680

System

TOI-1468

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.401 R⊕ · percentile 22 / cohort 1176
Mass 3.040 M⊕ · percentile 41 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 1.88 d · percentile 11 / cohort 1164
Distance 24.74 pc · percentile 5 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.446 · percentile 67 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
1.881 days
Semi-major axis
0.0211 AU
Eccentricity
0.010
Inclination
87.82 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 1.88 Earth days (0.5% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0211 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.120 %

Duration

1.090 h

Impact parameter b

0.465

Rp / R★

0.034610

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,458,765.6776

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 1,198 ppm lasting ≈ 1.09 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.034610

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

12.200

Impact parameter (b)

0.465

RV semi-amplitude (K)

3.160 m/s

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,458,765.6776

Long. of periastron (ω)

-170.00°

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.85200

Eq. Temperature

684K

(410 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

36.40

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.446

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.

Detection Signatures

Transit photometry

A transit dip has been observed from at least one telescope.

Radial velocity

Stellar wobble has been measured spectroscopically.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Chaturvedi et al. 2022

Instrument

TESS CCD Array

Publication

2022-10

Observation locale

Space

Host System: TOI-1468

Spectral Class

M-type red dwarf

Effective Temperature

3,376 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

Stellar Radius

0.371 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.353 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.01

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.846 dex

Stellar density

9.700 g/cm³

Rotational v·sin i

2.00 km/s

Rotation period

42.50 days

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
24.74 parsec
Light-years 80.69 ly
V-band magnitude
12.50 mag
Voyager-speed travel 1,422,980 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

8.014.614.63B12.50V12.12Gaia10.89TESS9.34J8.78H8.50K8.34W18.20W28.10W38.05W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

40.392 mas

Total Proper Motion

226.524 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-41.46 mas/yr

PM Declination

-222.70 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.905 · y = 0.271 · z = 0.329

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 16.65387° · Dec 19.22492°

Galactic ℓ, b

127.874° · -43.501°

Ecliptic λ, β

22.742° · 11.213°

HTM-20 index

-1296103795

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