Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2024

TOI-5634 A b

A gas giant orbiting the k-type orange TOI-5634 A, located approximately 998.5 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 10.42 Earth radii
  • A mass of 588.00 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 5.42 g
  • An orbital period of 2.204 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0272 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 837 K (564 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 998.51 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.147
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 17,608,670 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

TOI-5634 A b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
10.42 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.923 R♃
Mass
588.00 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
1.850 M♃
Density
g/cm³
Surface Gravity
5.42 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.147
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

#1737of 1771

top 98.0%

This planet

10.42R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth TOI-5634 A b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0010.4211.21
Mass (M⊕)1.00588.00317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.511.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.005.422.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0077.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Best measured mass 588.000 M⊕ Direct mass measurement (not derived).

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 119585136

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 3979511431397114752

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 3979511431397114752

System

TOI-5634

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 10.420 R⊕ · percentile 2 / cohort 1771
Mass 588.000 M⊕ · percentile 53 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 2.20 d · percentile 9 / cohort 1533
Distance 306.14 pc · percentile 61 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.147 · percentile 36 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
2.204 days
Semi-major axis
0.0272 AU
Eccentricity
0.000
Inclination
88.19 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 2.20 Earth days (0.6% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0272 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

2.828 %

Duration

1.670 h

Impact parameter b

0.360

Rp / R★

0.177000

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,459,663.4184

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 28,280 ppm lasting ≈ 1.67 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.177000

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

10.850

Impact parameter (b)

0.360

RV semi-amplitude (K)

439.000 m/s

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,459,663.4184

Long. of periastron (ω)

90.00°

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.08880

Eq. Temperature

837K

(564 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

77.00

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.147

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.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Kanodia et al. 2024

Instrument

TESS CCD Array

Publication

2024-08

Observation locale

Space

Host System: TOI-5634 A

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

3,896 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

7.40 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.540 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.556 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.27

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.730 dex

Stellar density

4.990 g/cm³

Rotational v·sin i

2.00 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
306.14 parsec
Light-years 998.51 ly
V-band magnitude
16.85 mag
Voyager-speed travel 17,608,670 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

9.220.020.02U17.85B16.85V16.00Gaia14.98TESS17.48Sloan g16.17Sloan r15.39Sloan i14.96Sloan z13.70J13.07H12.91K12.65W112.62W212.60W39.24W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

3.241 mas

Total Proper Motion

66.342 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-61.15 mas/yr

PM Declination

-25.73 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.931 · y = 0.071 · z = 0.358

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 175.64364° · Dec 20.96529°

Galactic ℓ, b

230.646° · 73.134°

Ecliptic λ, β

167.438° · 17.461°

HTM-20 index

-56388896

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