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Radial velocity · 2007

HD 175541 b

This world receives 9.04× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 298 days; the light you see left it 423 years ago.

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Size
1.3 × Jupiterestimated
A year
298 days0.975 AU
Temperature
228 °C501 K

About this world

HD 175541 b is a gas giant orbiting HD 175541, a giant star (type G8IV) 423 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.3 times the size of Jupiter (its size estimated from its mass), with at least 0.6 Jupiter masses (a minimum, measured by radial velocity). It completes an orbit every 298 days at 0.97 AU from its star.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 501 K (228 °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 2007 by radial velocity with W. M. Keck Observatory. The star wobbles toward and away from us, Doppler-shifting its spectrum.

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