Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2023

TOI-2096 b

A rocky terrestrial orbiting the m-type red dwarf TOI-2096, located approximately 158.1 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.24 Earth radii
  • A mass of 2.08 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.35 g
  • An orbital period of 3.119 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0250 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 445 K (172 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 158.12 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.679
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 2,788,505 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

1 sibling around TOI-2096

TOI-2096 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-2096 b this Rocky Terrestrial 1.24 2.08 3.119 445 2023
TOI-2096 c Super-Earth 1.91 4.32 6.388 349 2023

TOI-2096 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.24 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.111 R♃
Mass
2.08 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.007 M♃
Density
5.95 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.35 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Rocky Terrestrial

ESI Score 0.679
HZ Position Inner
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2023
Method Transit
Facility Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
Telescope 0.1 m TESS Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#2of 570

top 0.2%

This planet

1.24R⊕

Rocky Terrestrial median

1.01R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth TOI-2096 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.2411.21
Mass (M⊕)1.002.08317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.515.951.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.352.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.009.400.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 142748283

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 1126422935076082176

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 1126422935076082176

System

TOI-2096

Percentile among Rocky Terrestrial cohort

Radius 1.243 R⊕ · percentile 100 / cohort 570
Mass 2.080 M⊕ · percentile 91 / cohort 570
Orbital period 3.12 d · percentile 35 / cohort 567
Distance 48.48 pc · percentile 18 / cohort 566
ESI 0.679 · percentile 81 / cohort 570

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
3.119 days
Semi-major axis
0.0250 AU
Eccentricity
0.150
Inclination
89.24 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 3.12 Earth days (0.9% of a terrestrial year) on a mildly elliptical path at a mean orbital distance of 0.0250 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.266 %

Duration

1.072 h

Impact parameter b

0.300

Rp / R★

0.048500

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,459,146.4585

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 2,660 ppm lasting ≈ 1.07 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.048500

Impact parameter (b)

0.300

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,459,146.4585

Long. of periastron (ω)

245.00°

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.51600

Eq. Temperature

445K

(172 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

9.40

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.679

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

Pozuelos et al. 2023

Instrument

TESS CCD Array

Publication

2023-03

Observation locale

Space

Host System: TOI-2096

Spectral Class

M-type red dwarf

Effective Temperature

3,300 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.00 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.235 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.231 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.03

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

5.050 dex

Stellar density

23.900 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
48.48 parsec
Light-years 158.12 ly
V-band magnitude
15.92 mag
Voyager-speed travel 2,788,505 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

9.417.917.86B15.92V14.77Gaia13.48TESS11.88J11.30H11.02K10.87W110.67W210.50W39.39W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

20.598 mas

Total Proper Motion

79.501 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-26.04 mas/yr

PM Declination

-75.11 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.230 · y = 0.124 · z = 0.965

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 151.61870° · Dec 74.82721°

Galactic ℓ, b

135.574° · 37.970°

Ecliptic λ, β

114.809° · 56.721°

HTM-20 index

-977591702

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