About this world
TOI-451 d is a sub-Neptune orbiting TOI-451, a yellow, Sun-like star (type G8V) 404 light-years from Earth. It is about 3.9 times the size of Earth and holds 10 Earth masses. It completes an orbit every 16.4 days at 0.12 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.
Its equilibrium temperature is about 714 K (441 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. At its size it almost certainly keeps a deep envelope of hydrogen and helium. Its atmosphere has already been studied: 2 spectroscopic observations, all of them with the James Webb Space Telescope.
It was discovered in 2020 by transit with Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. TOI-451 has 3 known planets; the others are TOI-451 b and TOI-451 c.