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Radial velocity · 2017

HD 27894 c

This world receives 9.07× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 36.1 days; the light you see left it 143 years ago.

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Size
0.74 × Jupiterestimated
A year
36.1 days0.198 AU
Temperature
226 °C499 K

About this world

HD 27894 c is a Neptune-like planet orbiting HD 27894, an orange dwarf (type K2V) 143 light-years from Earth. It is about 0.74 times the size of Jupiter (its size estimated from its mass), with at least 0.16 Jupiter masses (a minimum, measured by radial velocity). It completes an orbit every 36.1 days at 0.2 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 499 K (226 °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 La Silla Observatory. The star wobbles toward and away from us, Doppler-shifting its spectrum. HD 27894 has 3 known planets; the others are HD 27894 b and HD 27894 d.

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