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Radial velocity · 2016 · habitable zone

HIP 109384 b

This world receives 2.68× less starlight than Earth; a year lasts 499 days; the light you see left it 192 years ago.

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Size
1.2 × Jupiterestimated
A year
499 days1.13 AU
Temperature
−59 °C214 K

About this world

HIP 109384 b is a gas giant orbiting HIP 109384, a yellow, Sun-like star (type G5) 192 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.2 times the size of Jupiter (its size estimated from its mass), with at least 1.6 Jupiter masses (a minimum, measured by radial velocity). It completes an orbit every 499 days at 1.1 AU from its star, on a strongly elongated orbit (e = 0.55).

Its equilibrium temperature is about 214 K (−59 °C), which places it in the conservative habitable zone: the band where liquid water could exist on a rocky surface. At its size it almost certainly keeps a deep envelope of hydrogen and helium.

It was discovered in 2016 by radial velocity with Haute-Provence Observatory. The star wobbles toward and away from us, Doppler-shifting its spectrum.

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