Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2017

TYC 4282-00605-1 b

A gas giant orbiting the k-type orange TYC 4282-00605-1, located approximately 1,513.8 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 12.40 Earth radii
  • A mass of 3,426.21 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 22.28 g
  • An orbital period of 101.540 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.4220 AU
  • Distance from Earth 1,513.78 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.372
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 26,695,532 years

TYC 4282-00605-1 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
12.40 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.110 R♃
Mass
3,426.21 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
10.780 M♃
Density
9.87 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
22.28 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.372
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2017
Method Radial Velocity
Facility Roque de los Muchachos Observatory
Telescope 3.58 m Telescopio Nazionale Galileo

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#1298of 1771

top 73.2%

This planet

12.40R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth TYC 4282-00605-1 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0012.4011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.003,426.21317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.519.871.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.0022.282.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i) 3,426.207 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 13105061

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2207199228316679808

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2207199228316679808

System

TYC 4282-00605-1

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 12.400 R⊕ · percentile 25 / cohort 1771
Mass 3,426.207 M⊕ · percentile 89 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 101.54 d · percentile 53 / cohort 1533
Distance 464.13 pc · percentile 73 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.372 · percentile 77 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
101.540 days
Semi-major axis
0.4220 AU
Eccentricity
0.280
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 101.54 Earth days (27.8% of a terrestrial year) on a mildly elliptical path at a mean orbital distance of 0.4220 AU.

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.372

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Discovery Paper

Instrument

HARPS-N Spectrograph

Publication

2017-10

Observation locale

Ground

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 2017 at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (2 shown).

Host System: TYC 4282-00605-1

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,300 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

10.10 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

16.210 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.970 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.07

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

2.000 dex

Systemic radial velocity

-12.36 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

3.00 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
464.13 parsec
Light-years 1,513.78 ly
V-band magnitude
10.47 mag
Voyager-speed travel 26,695,532 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

6.715.515.52U11.75B10.47V9.91Gaia9.02TESS11.46Sloan g10.01Sloan r9.43Sloan i9.66Sloan z7.67J6.96H6.78K6.70W16.76W26.80W37.41W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

2.126 mas

Total Proper Motion

35.488 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

33.12 mas/yr

PM Declination

12.75 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.447 · y = -0.129 · z = 0.885

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 343.87210° · Dec 62.23919°

Galactic ℓ, b

109.875° · 2.344°

Ecliptic λ, β

27.532° · 59.694°

HTM-20 index

1892387617

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