Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2024

TOI-2379 b

A gas giant orbiting the k-type orange TOI-2379, located approximately 689.0 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 11.72 Earth radii
  • A mass of 1,830.69 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 13.32 g
  • An orbital period of 5.469 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0526 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 624 K (351 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 688.99 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.285
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 12,150,422 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

TOI-2379 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
11.72 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.046 R♃
Mass
1,830.69 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
5.760 M♃
Density
6.21 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
13.32 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.285
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

#1567of 1771

top 88.4%

This planet

11.72R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth TOI-2379 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0011.7211.21
Mass (M⊕)1.001,830.69317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.516.211.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.0013.322.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0025.300.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Best measured mass 1,830.692 M⊕ Direct mass measurement (not derived).

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 201177276

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 6521531466699512064

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 6521531466699512064

System

TOI-2379

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 11.725 R⊕ · percentile 12 / cohort 1771
Mass 1,830.692 M⊕ · percentile 78 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 5.47 d · percentile 38 / cohort 1533
Distance 211.25 pc · percentile 52 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.285 · percentile 53 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
5.469 days
Semi-major axis
0.0526 AU
Eccentricity
0.342
Inclination
88.85 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 5.47 Earth days (1.5% of a terrestrial year) on a highly eccentric trajectory at a mean orbital distance of 0.0526 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

3.241 %

Duration

1.867 h

Impact parameter b

0.242

Rp / R★

0.172900

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,459,401.5660

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 32,412 ppm lasting ≈ 1.87 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.172900

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

18.170

Impact parameter (b)

0.242

RV semi-amplitude (K)

1,002.500 m/s

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,459,401.5660

Long. of periastron (ω)

73.10°

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.24900

Eq. Temperature

624K

(351 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

25.30

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.285

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.

Detection Signatures

Transit photometry

A transit dip has been observed from at least one telescope.

Radial velocity

Stellar wobble has been measured spectroscopically.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Bryant et al. 2024

Instrument

TESS CCD Array

Publication

2024-10

Observation locale

Space

Host System: TOI-2379

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

3,707 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

10.40 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.622 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.645 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.50

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.653 dex

Stellar density

3.760 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
211.25 parsec
Light-years 688.99 ly
V-band magnitude
15.55 mag
Voyager-speed travel 12,150,422 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

8.717.017.00B15.55V14.66Gaia13.65TESS12.39J11.70H11.48K11.45W111.47W211.34W38.72W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

4.705 mas

Total Proper Motion

16.620 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

16.53 mas/yr

PM Declination

1.74 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.601 · y = -0.020 · z = -0.799

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 358.09205° · Dec -53.04316°

Galactic ℓ, b

321.891° · -61.857°

Ecliptic λ, β

330.767° · -46.484°

HTM-20 index

1750223580

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