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Radial velocity · 2015

GJ 3341 b

This world receives 3.66× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 14.2 days; the light you see left it 77 years ago.

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Size
2.5 × Earthestimated
A year
14.2 days0.089 AU
Temperature
104 °C378 K

About this world

GJ 3341 b is a sub-Neptune orbiting GJ 3341, a cool red dwarf (type M2.5) 77 light-years from Earth. It is about 2.5 times the size of Earth (its size estimated from its mass), with at least 6.6 Earth masses (a minimum, measured by radial velocity). It completes an orbit every 14.2 days at 0.089 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun, on a strongly elongated orbit (e = 0.31).

Its equilibrium temperature is about 378 K (104 °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 2015 by radial velocity with La Silla Observatory. The star wobbles toward and away from us, Doppler-shifting its spectrum.

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