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Radial velocity · 2015

HIP 107773 b

This world receives 143× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 144 days; the light you see left it 343 years ago.

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Size
1.2 × Jupiterestimated
A year
144 days0.72 AU
Temperature
684 °C957 K

About this world

HIP 107773 b is a gas giant orbiting HIP 107773, a giant star (type K1III) 343 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.2 times the size of Jupiter (its size estimated from its mass), with at least 2 Jupiter masses (a minimum, measured by radial velocity). It completes an orbit every 144 days at 0.72 AU from its star.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 957 K (684 °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 2015 by radial velocity with Multiple Observatories. The star wobbles toward and away from us, Doppler-shifting its spectrum.

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