Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2021

TOI-682.01

A sub-neptune orbiting the k-type orange TOI-682, located approximately 271.2 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 3.74 Earth radii
  • A mass of 13.50 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 0.96 g
  • An orbital period of 6.839 days
  • Equilibrium temperature 1,090 K (817 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 271.21 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.193
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 4,782,865 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

TOI-682.01 Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
3.74 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.334 R♃
Mass
13.50 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.042 M♃
Density
1.42 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
0.96 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Sub-Neptune

ESI Score 0.193
HZ Position Inner
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2021
Method Transit
Facility Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
Telescope 0.1 m TESS Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#74of 1978

top 3.7%

This planet

3.74R⊕

Sub-Neptune median

2.71R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth TOI-682.01 Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.003.7411.21
Mass (M⊕)1.0013.50317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.511.421.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.000.962.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.00234.460.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 429304876

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 3538925100535948416

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 3538925100535948416

System

TOI-682

Percentile among Sub-Neptune cohort

Radius 3.742 R⊕ · percentile 96 / cohort 1978
Mass 13.500 M⊕ · percentile 89 / cohort 1978
Orbital period 6.84 d · percentile 21 / cohort 1946
Distance 83.15 pc · percentile 18 / cohort 1975
ESI 0.193 · percentile 6 / cohort 1978

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
6.839 days
Semi-major axis
AU
Eccentricity
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 6.84 Earth days (1.9% of a terrestrial year).

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.121 %

Duration

4.176 h

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,460,037.2599

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 1,213 ppm lasting ≈ 4.18 h.

Eq. Temperature

1,090K

(817 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

234.46

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.193

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. 2021

Instrument

TESS CCD Array

Publication

2021-01

Observation locale

Space

Host System: TOI-682

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,085 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

Stellar Radius

1.080 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.850 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.27

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

3.920 dex

Stellar density

0.940 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[M/H]

Distance
83.15 parsec
Light-years 271.21 ly
V-band magnitude
9.97 mag
Voyager-speed travel 4,782,865 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

8.010.810.85B9.97V9.74Gaia9.22TESS8.52J8.20H8.10K8.02W18.08W28.03W38.10W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

11.997 mas

Total Proper Motion

105.859 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-91.43 mas/yr

PM Declination

-53.36 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.906 · y = 0.194 · z = -0.376

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 167.88543° · Dec -22.07278°

Galactic ℓ, b

274.328° · 35.190°

Ecliptic λ, β

178.166° · -24.970°

HTM-20 index

718468835

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