About this world
HD 122562 c is a gas giant orbiting HD 122562, an orange dwarf 174 light-years from Earth. It is about 0.9 times the size of Jupiter (its size estimated from its mass), with at least 0.23 Jupiter masses (a minimum, measured by radial velocity). It completes an orbit every 85 days at 0.41 AU from its star, on a strongly elongated orbit (e = 0.23).
Its equilibrium temperature is about 552 K (279 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. At its size it almost certainly keeps a deep envelope of hydrogen and helium.
It was discovered in 2022 by radial velocity with Multiple Observatories. The star wobbles toward and away from us, Doppler-shifting its spectrum.