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Radial velocity · 1999

HD 192263 b

This world receives 15.1× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 24.4 days; the light you see left it 64 years ago.

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Size
1.3 × Jupiterestimated
A year
24.4 days0.15 AU
Temperature
213 °C486 K

About this world

HD 192263 b is a gas giant orbiting HD 192263, an orange dwarf (type K2V) 64 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.3 times the size of Jupiter (its size estimated from its mass), with at least 0.56 Jupiter masses (a minimum, measured by radial velocity). It completes an orbit every 24.4 days at 0.15 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 486 K (213 °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 1999 by radial velocity with La Silla Observatory. The star wobbles toward and away from us, Doppler-shifting its spectrum.

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