Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2024

TOI-1782.02

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange TOI-1782, located approximately 310.7 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.84 Earth radii
  • A mass of 4.04 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.19 g
  • An orbital period of 1.829 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0257 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 975 K (702 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 310.71 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.287
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 5,479,409 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

1 sibling around TOI-1782

TOI-1782.02 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-1782.02 this Super-Earth 1.84 4.04 1.829 975 2024
TOI-1782.01 Sub-Neptune 2.37 6.20 4.988 698 2024

TOI-1782.02 Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.84 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.164 R♃
Mass
4.04 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.013 M♃
Density
3.57 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.19 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.287
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

#217of 1176

top 18.4%

This planet

1.84R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth TOI-1782.02 Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.8411.21
Mass (M⊕)1.004.04317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.513.571.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.192.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00214.170.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 160045097

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 1711970906169443584

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 1711970906169443584

System

TOI-1782

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.839 R⊕ · percentile 82 / cohort 1176
Mass 4.040 M⊕ · percentile 75 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 1.83 d · percentile 11 / cohort 1164
Distance 95.26 pc · percentile 16 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.287 · percentile 33 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
1.829 days
Semi-major axis
0.0257 AU
Eccentricity
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 1.83 Earth days (0.5% of a terrestrial year) at a mean orbital distance of 0.0257 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.070 %

Duration

1.544 h

Rp / R★

0.024900

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,459,632.8167

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 705 ppm lasting ≈ 1.54 h.

Eq. Temperature

975K

(702 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

214.17

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.287

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

Crossfield et al. 2024

Instrument

TESS CCD Array

Publication

2024-11

Observation locale

Space

Host System: TOI-1782

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,336 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

Stellar Radius

0.669 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.680 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

Distance
95.26 parsec
Light-years 310.71 ly
V-band magnitude
12.33 mag
Voyager-speed travel 5,479,409 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

9.213.813.82B12.33V12.04Gaia11.31TESS10.25J9.68H9.55K9.47W19.53W29.42W39.22W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

10.468 mas

Total Proper Motion

88.753 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-79.46 mas/yr

PM Declination

39.55 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.225 · y = -0.147 · z = 0.963

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 213.07877° · Dec 74.41179°

Galactic ℓ, b

115.800° · 41.578°

Ecliptic λ, β

132.167° · 70.403°

HTM-20 index

-254701053

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