Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2024

TOI-1739 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange TOI-1739, located approximately 231.5 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.95 Earth radii
  • A mass of 4.45 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.18 g
  • An orbital period of 8.303 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0739 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 756 K (482 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 231.51 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.368
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 4,082,709 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

TOI-1739 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.95 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.174 R♃
Mass
4.45 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.014 M♃
Density
3.32 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.18 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.368
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

#77of 1176

top 6.5%

This planet

1.95R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth TOI-1739 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.9511.21
Mass (M⊕)1.004.45317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.513.321.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.182.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0053.910.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 159418353

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 1723044195148593152

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 1723044195149081728

System

TOI-1739

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.946 R⊕ · percentile 93 / cohort 1176
Mass 4.450 M⊕ · percentile 86 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 8.30 d · percentile 59 / cohort 1164
Distance 70.98 pc · percentile 14 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.368 · percentile 55 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
8.303 days
Semi-major axis
0.0739 AU
Eccentricity
Inclination
89.27 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 8.30 Earth days (2.3% of a terrestrial year) at a mean orbital distance of 0.0739 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.043 %

Duration

1.871 h

Impact parameter b

0.410

Rp / R★

0.022600

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,459,631.8204

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 430 ppm lasting ≈ 1.87 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.022600

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

32.460

Impact parameter (b)

0.410

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,459,631.8204

Angular separation (arcsec)

1.04000

Eq. Temperature

756K

(482 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

53.91

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.368

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-1739

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,814 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

6.30 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.781 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.780 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.07

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.584 dex

Stellar density

2.630 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
70.98 parsec
Light-years 231.51 ly
V-band magnitude
10.69 mag
Voyager-speed travel 4,082,709 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

8.211.611.60B10.69V10.42Gaia9.81TESS8.98J8.51H8.39K8.32W18.39W28.32W38.21W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

14.059 mas

Total Proper Motion

171.152 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-132.92 mas/yr

PM Declination

107.83 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.058 · y = -0.102 · z = 0.993

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 240.17248° · Dec 83.25866°

Galactic ℓ, b

117.119° · 31.578°

Ecliptic λ, β

100.953° · 72.110°

HTM-20 index

-1366273055

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