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Radial velocity · 2014

BD-11 4672 b

This world receives 35.5× less starlight than Earth; a year lasts 4.47 years; the light you see left it 89 years ago.

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Size
1.3 × Jupiterestimated
A year
4.47 years2.36 AU
Temperature
−159 °C114 K

About this world

BD-11 4672 b is a gas giant orbiting BD-11 4672, an orange dwarf (type K7V) 88.6 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.3 times the size of Jupiter (its size estimated from its mass), with at least 0.65 Jupiter masses (a minimum, measured by radial velocity). It completes an orbit every 4.47 years at 2.4 AU from its star.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 114 K (−159 °C): too cold for liquid water on its surface. At its size it almost certainly keeps a deep envelope of hydrogen and helium.

It was discovered in 2014 by radial velocity with La Silla Observatory. The star wobbles toward and away from us, Doppler-shifting its spectrum. BD-11 4672 has 2 known planets; the others are BD-11 4672 c.

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