Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2024

TOI-871 b

A super-earth orbiting the k-type orange TOI-871, located approximately 221.9 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 1.66 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3.41 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.23 g
  • An orbital period of 14.363 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.1054 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 621 K (348 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 221.94 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.470
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 3,913,918 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

TOI-871 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
1.66 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.148 R♃
Mass
3.41 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.011 M♃
Density
4.07 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.23 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.470
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

#465of 1176

top 39.5%

This planet

1.66R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth TOI-871 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.001.6611.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003.41317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.514.071.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.232.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0024.780.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 219344917

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 4783664690873269888

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 4783664690873269888

System

TOI-871

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.664 R⊕ · percentile 60 / cohort 1176
Mass 3.410 M⊕ · percentile 55 / cohort 1176
Orbital period 14.36 d · percentile 76 / cohort 1164
Distance 68.05 pc · percentile 14 / cohort 1171
ESI 0.470 · percentile 70 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
14.363 days
Semi-major axis
0.1054 AU
Eccentricity
Inclination
89.26 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 14.36 Earth days (3.9% of a terrestrial year) at a mean orbital distance of 0.1054 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.045 %

Duration

4.032 h

Impact parameter b

0.300

Rp / R★

0.021000

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,458,417.0523

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 450 ppm lasting ≈ 4.03 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.021000

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

26.300

Impact parameter (b)

0.300

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,458,417.0523

Angular separation (arcsec)

1.55000

Eq. Temperature

621K

(348 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

24.78

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.470

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

Mistry et al. 2023

Instrument

TESS CCD Array

Publication

2023-11

Observation locale

Space

Host System: TOI-871

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,929 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

5.90 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.719 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.758 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.07

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.604 dex

Stellar density

2.870 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
68.05 parsec
Light-years 221.94 ly
V-band magnitude
10.57 mag
Voyager-speed travel 3,913,918 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

8.211.611.62B10.57V10.35Gaia9.76TESS8.95J8.49H8.38K8.30W18.36W28.31W38.25W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

14.667 mas

Total Proper Motion

145.292 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-79.36 mas/yr

PM Declination

-121.71 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.167 · y = 0.612 · z = -0.773

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 74.73763° · Dec -50.62742°

Galactic ℓ, b

257.529° · -38.214°

Ecliptic λ, β

56.673° · -72.304°

HTM-20 index

324522591

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