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Radial velocity · 2017

HD 208897 b

This world receives 10.9× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 358 days; the light you see left it 220 years ago.

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Size
1.2 × Jupiterestimated
A year
358 days1.06 AU
Temperature
234 °C507 K

About this world

HD 208897 b is a gas giant orbiting HD 208897, a giant star (type K0) 220 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.2 times the size of Jupiter (its size estimated from its mass), with at least 1.2 Jupiter masses (a minimum, measured by radial velocity). It completes an orbit every 358 days at 1.1 AU from its star.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 507 K (234 °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 2017 by radial velocity with Multiple Observatories. The star wobbles toward and away from us, Doppler-shifting its spectrum.

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