Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2024

TOI-6086 b

A rocky terrestrial orbiting the m-type red dwarf TOI-6086, located approximately 102.6 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.18 Earth radii
  • A mass of 1.76 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.26 g
  • An orbital period of 1.389 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0154 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 634 K (361 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 102.60 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.499
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 1,809,308 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

TOI-6086 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.18 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.105 R♃
Mass
1.76 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.006 M♃
Density
5.89 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.26 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Rocky Terrestrial

ESI Score 0.499
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

#117of 570

top 20.4%

This planet

1.18R⊕

Rocky Terrestrial median

1.01R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth TOI-6086 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.1811.21
Mass (M⊕)1.001.76317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.515.891.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.262.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0026.800.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 18318288

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 4597447518944594176

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 4597447518944594176

System

TOI-6086

Percentile among Rocky Terrestrial cohort

Radius 1.180 R⊕ · percentile 77 / cohort 570
Mass 1.760 M⊕ · percentile 71 / cohort 570
Orbital period 1.39 d · percentile 15 / cohort 567
Distance 31.46 pc · percentile 14 / cohort 566
ESI 0.499 · percentile 70 / cohort 570

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
1.389 days
Semi-major axis
0.0154 AU
Eccentricity
Inclination
87.30 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 1.39 Earth days (0.4% of a terrestrial year) at a mean orbital distance of 0.0154 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.153 %

Duration

0.700 h

Impact parameter b

0.608

Rp / R★

0.041730

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,460,131.9695

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 1,531 ppm lasting ≈ 0.70 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.041730

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

12.750

Impact parameter (b)

0.608

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,460,131.9695

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.49000

Eq. Temperature

634K

(361 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

26.80

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.499

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

Barkaoui et al. 2024

Instrument

TESS CCD Array

Publication

2024-05

Observation locale

Space

Host System: TOI-6086

Spectral Class

M-type red dwarf

Effective Temperature

3,200 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

2.00 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.259 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.254 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.11

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

5.010 dex

Stellar density

20.612 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
31.46 parsec
Light-years 102.60 ly
V-band magnitude
14.98 mag
Voyager-speed travel 1,809,308 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

8.916.816.78B14.98V13.70Gaia12.41TESS10.82J10.25H9.99K9.80W19.62W29.53W38.87W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

31.761 mas

Total Proper Motion

110.616 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-110.60 mas/yr

PM Declination

2.17 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.070 · y = -0.861 · z = 0.505

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 265.37042° · Dec 30.30378°

Galactic ℓ, b

54.816° · 27.452°

Ecliptic λ, β

263.247° · 53.635°

HTM-20 index

1737720201

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