About this world
HD 207897 b is a sub-Neptune orbiting HD 207897, an orange dwarf (type K0V) 92.3 light-years from Earth. It is about 2.3 times the size of Earth and holds 15 Earth masses. It completes an orbit every 16.2 days at 0.12 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.
Its equilibrium temperature is about 582 K (309 °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 2021 by transit with Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.