About this world
TOI-201 b is a gas giant orbiting TOI-201, a yellow-white F-type star (type F) 371 light-years from Earth. It is about 1 times the size of Jupiter and holds 0.52 Jupiter masses. It completes an orbit every 53 days at 0.3 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun, on a strongly elongated orbit (e = 0.28).
Its equilibrium temperature is about 759 K (486 °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 2021 by transit with Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. TOI-201 has 3 known planets; the others are TOI-201 d and TOI-201 c.