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Radial velocity · 2012

HD 5608 b

This world receives 4.46× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 2.1 years; the light you see left it 190 years ago.

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Size
1.2 × Jupiterestimated
A year
2.1 years1.79 AU
Temperature
131 °C404 K

About this world

HD 5608 b is a gas giant orbiting HD 5608, a giant star (type K0IV) 190 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 2.1 years at 1.8 AU from its star.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 404 K (131 °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 2012 by radial velocity with Okayama Astrophysical Observatory. The star wobbles toward and away from us, Doppler-shifting its spectrum.

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