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Radial velocity · 2017

HD 76920 b

This world receives 24.8× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 416 days; the light you see left it 600 years ago.

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Size
1.2 × Jupiterestimated
A year
416 days1.09 AU
Temperature
348 °C621 K

About this world

HD 76920 b is a gas giant orbiting HD 76920, a giant star (type K1III) 600 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.2 times the size of Jupiter (its size estimated from its mass), with at least 3.1 Jupiter masses (a minimum, measured by radial velocity). It completes an orbit every 416 days at 1.1 AU from its star, on a strongly elongated orbit (e = 0.88).

Its equilibrium temperature is about 621 K (348 °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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