Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 1996

ups And b

A gas giant orbiting the f-type yellow-white ups And, located approximately 43.7 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 14.00 Earth radii
  • A mass of 218.53 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 1.11 g
  • An orbital period of 4.617 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.0592 AU
  • Distance from Earth 43.72 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.279
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 771,047 years

2 siblings around ups And

ups And b shares its host star with 2 other confirmed planets. Side-by-side measurements below.

Planet Type Radius (R⊕) Mass (M⊕) Period (d) Eq. T (K) Year
ups And b this Gas Giant 14.00 218.53 4.617 1996
ups And c Gas Giant 12.30 4,443.24 241.258 1999
ups And d Gas Giant 12.50 3,257.74 1,276.460 1999

ups And b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
14.00 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
1.250 R♃
Mass
218.53 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
0.688 M♃
Density
0.44 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
1.11 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.279
HZ Position Unknown
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 1996
Method Radial Velocity
Facility Lick Observatory
Telescope 3.0 m C. Donald Shane Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#415of 1771

top 23.4%

This planet

14.00R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth ups And b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0014.0011.21
Mass (M⊕)1.00218.53317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.510.441.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.001.112.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.000.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i) 218.531 M⊕ Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD

HD 9826

HIP

HIP 7513

TIC

TIC 189576919

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 348020448377061376

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 348020482735930112

System

ups And

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 14.000 R⊕ · percentile 74 / cohort 1771
Mass 218.531 M⊕ · percentile 23 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 4.62 d · percentile 34 / cohort 1533
Distance 13.41 pc · percentile 1 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.279 · percentile 52 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
4.617 days
Semi-major axis
0.0592 AU
Eccentricity
0.022
Inclination
°

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 4.62 Earth days (1.3% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0592 AU.

Extended Orbital Architecture

RV semi-amplitude (K)

70.510 m/s

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,453,335.8900

Long. of periastron (ω)

324.90°

Angular separation (arcsec)

4.42000

Eq. Temperature

 

Insolation (S⊕)

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.279

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Detection Signatures

Radial velocity

Stellar wobble has been measured spectroscopically.

Orbital-brightness modulation

Host star brightness varies with the planet's orbit.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Butler et al. 1997

Instrument

Hamilton Echelle Spectrograph

Publication

1997-01

Observation locale

Ground

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 1996 at Lick Observatory (4 shown).

Host System: ups And

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,157 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

5.00 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.560 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.300 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.10

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.125 dex

Stellar density

0.370 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-28.66 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

9.20 km/s

Rotation period

12.00 days

Activity index (log R'HK)

-5.040

Metallicity ratio

[M/H]

Distance
13.41 parsec
Light-years 43.72 ly
V-band magnitude
4.10 mag
Voyager-speed travel 771,047 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

1.74.64.63B4.10V3.99Gaia3.61TESS3.18J2.96H2.86K1.82W11.71W22.85W32.82W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

74.571 mas

Total Proper Motion

419.857 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-172.25 mas/yr

PM Declination

-382.90 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.684 · y = 0.307 · z = 0.661

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 24.19835° · Dec 41.40381°

Galactic ℓ, b

132.000° · -20.668°

Ecliptic λ, β

38.545° · 28.979°

HTM-20 index

1454011361

Observation Record

Photometric series

1

RV measurements

10

Stellar spectra

1

Archive notes

5

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