Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 14.10 Earth radii
A mass of 196.41 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 0.99 g
An orbital period of 2.008 days
Semi-major axis 0.0335 AU
Distance from Earth 680.67 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.270
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 12,003,695 years

WASP-94 B b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

14.10 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

1.260 R♃

Mass

196.41 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.618 M♃

Density

0.39 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

0.99 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.270

HZ Position Unknown

Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2014

Method Radial Velocity

Facility SuperWASP

Telescope Canon 200mm f/1.8L

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#371of 1771

top 20.9%

This planet

14.10R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

HD 27894 b 14.10 R⊕ HD 103720 b 14.10 R⊕ HD 216770 b 14.10 R⊕

Metric	Earth	WASP-94 B b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	14.10	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	196.41	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	0.39	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	0.99	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	—	0.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method	Value	Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i)	196.411 M⊕	Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 92352621

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 6780546169633474944

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 6780546169633474944

System

WASP-94

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 14.100 R⊕ · percentile 77 / cohort 1771

Mass 196.411 M⊕ · percentile 19 / cohort 1747

Orbital period 2.01 d · percentile 7 / cohort 1533

Distance 208.70 pc · percentile 51 / cohort 1759

ESI 0.270 · percentile 50 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

2.008 days

Semi-major axis

0.0335 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

— °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 2.01 Earth days (0.5% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0335 AU.

Eq. Temperature

—

Insolation (S⊕)

—

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.270

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Neveu Vanmalle et al. 2014

Instrument

iKon-L CCD Camera

Publication

2014-12

Observation locale

Ground

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 2014 at SuperWASP (12 shown).

WASP-84 b · Gas Giant WASP-106 b · Gas Giant WASP-117 b · Gas Giant WASP-69 b · Gas Giant WASP-98 b · Gas Giant WASP-99 b · Gas Giant WASP-104 b · Gas Giant WASP-96 b · Gas Giant WASP-97 b · Gas Giant WASP-70 A b · Gas Giant WASP-28 b · Gas Giant WASP-68 b · Gas Giant

Host System: WASP-94 B

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,040 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.00 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.350 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.240 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.23

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.260 dex

Stellar density

0.543 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-8.74 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

1.50 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

208.70 parsec

Light-years 680.67 ly

V-band magnitude

10.59 mag

Voyager-speed travel 12,003,695 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 10 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

4.763 mas

Total Proper Motion

51.632 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

26.02 mas/yr

PM Declination

-44.60 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.573 · y = -0.598 · z = -0.561

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 313.78829° · Dec -34.13572°

Galactic ℓ, b

9.655° · -39.383°

Ecliptic λ, β

306.589° · -16.091°

HTM-20 index

732340472