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Radial velocity · 2009

HD 212771 b

This world receives 10.9× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 381 days; the light you see left it 363 years ago.

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Size
1.2 × Jupiterestimated
A year
381 days1.19 AU
Temperature
235 °C508 K

About this world

HD 212771 b is a gas giant orbiting HD 212771, a giant star (type G8IV) 363 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.2 times the size of Jupiter (its size estimated from its mass), with at least 2.4 Jupiter masses (a minimum, measured by radial velocity). It completes an orbit every 381 days at 1.2 AU from its star.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 508 K (235 °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 2009 by radial velocity with W. M. Keck Observatory. The star wobbles toward and away from us, Doppler-shifting its spectrum.

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