Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2021

TOI-2285 b

A super-earth orbiting the m-type red dwarf TOI-2285, located approximately 138.3 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.77 Earth radii
  • A mass of 19.50 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 6.22 g
  • An orbital period of 13.635 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.1363 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 358 K (85 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 138.32 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.635
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 2,439,264 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

TOI-2285 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.77 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.158 R♃
Mass
19.50 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.061 M♃
Density
g/cm³
Surface Gravity
6.22 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.635
HZ Position Inner
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2021
Method Transit
Facility Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
Telescope 0.1 m TESS Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#293of 1176

top 24.8%

This planet

1.77R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth TOI-2285 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.7711.21
Mass (M⊕)1.0019.50317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.511.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.006.222.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.003.910.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Best measured mass 19.500 M⊕ Direct mass measurement (not derived).

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 329148988

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2199658670194983040

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2199658670194983040

System

TOI-2285

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.770 R⊕ · percentile 73 / cohort 1176
Mass 19.500 M⊕ · percentile 98 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 13.64 d · percentile 74 / cohort 1164
Distance 42.41 pc · percentile 9 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.635 · percentile 82 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
13.635 days
Semi-major axis
0.1363 AU
Eccentricity
0.300
Inclination
89.66 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 13.64 Earth days (3.7% of a terrestrial year) on a highly eccentric trajectory at a mean orbital distance of 0.1363 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.115 %

Duration

2.416 h

Impact parameter b

0.440

Rp / R★

0.034800

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,458,747.1831

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 1,154 ppm lasting ≈ 2.42 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.034800

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

43.100

Impact parameter (b)

0.440

RV semi-amplitude (K)

7.500 m/s

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,458,747.1831

Long. of periastron (ω)

56.00°

Angular separation (arcsec)

3.21000

Eq. Temperature

358K

(85 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

3.91

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.635

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — liquid water is physically possible with adequate atmospheric pressure. Close-orbiting tidally-locked around a cool host.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Fukui et al. 2022

Instrument

TESS CCD Array

Publication

2022-02

Observation locale

Space

Host System: TOI-2285

Spectral Class

M-type red dwarf

Effective Temperature

3,491 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

Stellar Radius

0.464 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.454 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.05

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.773 dex

Stellar density

6.621 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-24.10 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
42.41 parsec
Light-years 138.32 ly
V-band magnitude
13.40 mag
Voyager-speed travel 2,439,264 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

8.714.914.90B13.40V12.43Gaia11.31TESS9.86J9.26H9.03K8.92W18.84W28.71W38.75W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

23.551 mas

Total Proper Motion

29.796 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

21.26 mas/yr

PM Declination

-20.87 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.461 · y = -0.239 · z = 0.855

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 332.56326° · Dec 58.70609°

Galactic ℓ, b

103.288° · 2.124°

Ecliptic λ, β

14.624° · 61.546°

HTM-20 index

-1395354054

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