Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2022

TOI-3757 b

A gas giant orbiting the m-type red dwarf TOI-3757, located approximately 590.8 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 12.00 Earth radii
  • A mass of 85.30 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 0.59 g
  • An orbital period of 3.439 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0385 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 759 K (486 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 590.80 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.159
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 10,418,682 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

TOI-3757 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
12.00 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.071 R♃
Mass
85.30 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.268 M♃
Density
0.27 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
0.59 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.159
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

#1494of 1771

top 84.3%

This planet

12.00R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth TOI-3757 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0012.0011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.0085.30317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.510.271.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.000.592.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0055.400.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Best measured mass 85.300 M⊕ Direct mass measurement (not derived).

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 445751830

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 996878131494639488

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 996878131494639488

System

TOI-3757

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 12.000 R⊕ · percentile 15 / cohort 1771
Mass 85.300 M⊕ · percentile 4 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 3.44 d · percentile 22 / cohort 1533
Distance 181.14 pc · percentile 48 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.159 · percentile 37 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
3.439 days
Semi-major axis
0.0385 AU
Eccentricity
0.140
Inclination
86.76 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 3.44 Earth days (0.9% of a terrestrial year) on a mildly elliptical path at a mean orbital distance of 0.0384 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

3.291 %

Duration

1.920 h

Rp / R★

0.176900

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,458,838.7715

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 32,914 ppm lasting ≈ 1.92 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.176900

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

13.260

RV semi-amplitude (K)

49.240 m/s

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,458,838.7715

Long. of periastron (ω)

130.00°

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.21200

Eq. Temperature

759K

(486 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

55.40

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.159

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

Kanodia et al. 2022

Instrument

TESS CCD Array

Publication

2022-09

Observation locale

Space

Host System: TOI-3757

Spectral Class

M-type red dwarf

Effective Temperature

3,913 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

7.10 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.620 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.640 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.00

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.680 dex

Stellar density

3.700 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

21.86 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

2.00 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
181.14 parsec
Light-years 590.80 ly
V-band magnitude
14.81 mag
Voyager-speed travel 10,418,682 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

8.916.216.23B14.81V14.13Gaia13.19TESS12.00J11.31H11.15K11.06W111.10W210.95W38.91W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

5.492 mas

Total Proper Motion

44.090 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-9.04 mas/yr

PM Declination

-43.15 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.010 · y = 0.573 · z = 0.819

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 91.00364° · Dec 55.01998°

Galactic ℓ, b

158.558° · 15.592°

Ecliptic λ, β

90.672° · 31.583°

HTM-20 index

991324886

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