Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2022

TOI-2427 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange TOI-2427, located approximately 93.0 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.80 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3.89 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.20 g
  • An orbital period of 1.306 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0202 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 1,117 K (844 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 93.00 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.249
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 1,640,097 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

TOI-2427 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.80 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.161 R♃
Mass
3.89 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.012 M♃
Density
3.67 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.20 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.249
HZ Position Inner
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2022
Method Transit
Facility Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
Telescope 0.1 m TESS Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#253of 1176

top 21.4%

This planet

1.80R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth TOI-2427 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.8011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003.89317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.513.671.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.202.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0062.710.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 142937186

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 5055663973297050624

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 5055663973297050624

System

TOI-2427

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.800 R⊕ · percentile 77 / cohort 1176
Mass 3.890 M⊕ · percentile 71 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 1.31 d · percentile 8 / cohort 1164
Distance 28.51 pc · percentile 6 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.249 · percentile 23 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
1.306 days
Semi-major axis
0.0202 AU
Eccentricity
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 1.31 Earth days (0.4% of a terrestrial year) at a mean orbital distance of 0.0202 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.056 %

Duration

0.634 h

Impact parameter b

0.870

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,459,169.6202

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 560 ppm lasting ≈ 0.63 h.

Eq. Temperature

1,117K

(844 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

62.71

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.249

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the dayside is scorched. Close-orbiting tidally-locked around a cool host.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Giacalone et al. 2022

Instrument

TESS CCD Array

Publication

2022-02

Observation locale

Space

Host System: TOI-2427

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,072 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

Stellar Radius

0.650 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.640 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

Distance
28.51 parsec
Light-years 93.00 ly
V-band magnitude
10.30 mag
Voyager-speed travel 1,640,097 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

6.911.711.69B10.30V9.82Gaia9.01TESS7.89J7.23H7.05K6.97W17.04W26.97W36.91W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

35.041 mas

Total Proper Motion

156.041 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

150.45 mas/yr

PM Declination

41.39 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.522 · y = 0.676 · z = -0.520

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 52.29173° · Dec -31.36287°

Galactic ℓ, b

229.608° · -55.516°

Ecliptic λ, β

38.317° · -48.264°

HTM-20 index

1017863384

Similar Worlds

Explore Related Categories