Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2023

TOI-2194 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange TOI-2194, located approximately 63.8 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.99 Earth radii
  • A mass of 4.61 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.17 g
  • An orbital period of 15.338 days
  • Equilibrium temperature 591 K (318 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 63.83 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.464
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 1,125,683 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

TOI-2194 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.99 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.177 R♃
Mass
4.61 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.015 M♃
Density
3.22 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.17 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.464
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

#23of 1176

top 1.9%

This planet

1.99R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth TOI-2194 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.9911.21
Mass (M⊕)1.004.61317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.513.221.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.172.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0014.250.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 271478281

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 6748283784056800384

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 6748283784056800384

System

TOI-2194

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.989 R⊕ · percentile 98 / cohort 1176
Mass 4.610 M⊕ · percentile 90 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 15.34 d · percentile 79 / cohort 1164
Distance 19.57 pc · percentile 4 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.464 · percentile 69 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
15.338 days
Semi-major axis
AU
Eccentricity
Inclination
89.27 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 15.34 Earth days (4.2% of a terrestrial year).

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.068 %

Duration

2.736 h

Impact parameter b

0.412

Rp / R★

0.026300

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,459,037.3678

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 683 ppm lasting ≈ 2.74 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.026300

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

32.393

Impact parameter (b)

0.412

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,459,037.3678

Eq. Temperature

591K

(318 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

14.25

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.464

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

2023-01

Observation locale

Space

Host System: TOI-2194

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,756 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

Stellar Radius

0.691 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.740 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.37

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.698 dex

Stellar density

3.163 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[M/H]

Distance
19.57 parsec
Light-years 63.83 ly
V-band magnitude
8.42 mag
Voyager-speed travel 1,125,683 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 7 bands

5.99.59.47B8.42V8.07Gaia7.43TESS6.53J6.01H5.87K

Astrometric Data

Parallax

51.067 mas

Total Proper Motion

410.625 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

409.40 mas/yr

PM Declination

31.71 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.416 · y = -0.746 · z = -0.520

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 299.15634° · Dec -31.33518°

Galactic ℓ, b

9.604° · -26.772°

Ecliptic λ, β

295.025° · -10.394°

HTM-20 index

-2125854218

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