Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2024

TOI-4443.01

A super-earth orbiting the g-type yellow (sun-like) TOI-4443, located approximately 182.9 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.72 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3.60 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.22 g
  • An orbital period of 1.850 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0300 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 1,639 K (1366 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 182.89 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.163
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 3,225,237 years

TOI-4443.01 Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.72 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.153 R♃
Mass
3.60 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.011 M♃
Density
3.89 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.22 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.163
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

#380of 1176

top 32.2%

This planet

1.72R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth TOI-4443.01 Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.7211.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003.60317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.513.891.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.222.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.001,194.210.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 158241252

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 4529634417760144896

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 4529634417760144896

System

TOI-4443

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.719 R⊕ · percentile 68 / cohort 1176
Mass 3.600 M⊕ · percentile 62 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 1.85 d · percentile 11 / cohort 1164
Distance 56.07 pc · percentile 12 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.163 · percentile 6 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
1.850 days
Semi-major axis
0.0300 AU
Eccentricity
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 1.85 Earth days (0.5% of a terrestrial year) at a mean orbital distance of 0.0300 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.020 %

Duration

2.518 h

Rp / R★

0.015481

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,459,415.1520

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 195 ppm lasting ≈ 2.52 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.015481

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

6.336

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,459,415.1520

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.53400

Eq. Temperature

1,639K

(1366 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

1,194.21

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.163

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the dayside is scorched.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Hord et al. 2024

Instrument

TESS CCD Array

Publication

2024-05

Observation locale

Space

Host System: TOI-4443

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,834 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

Stellar Radius

1.017 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.049 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

Distance
56.07 parsec
Light-years 182.89 ly
V-band magnitude
8.49 mag
Voyager-speed travel 3,225,237 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

6.99.19.12B8.49V8.34Gaia7.91TESS7.31J7.06H7.01K6.95W16.99W26.99W36.87W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

17.805 mas

Total Proper Motion

57.013 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-50.67 mas/yr

PM Declination

26.13 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.069 · y = -0.925 · z = 0.373

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 274.26866° · Dec 21.90955°

Galactic ℓ, b

49.269° · 17.067°

Ecliptic λ, β

275.627° · 45.265°

HTM-20 index

-643420796

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