About this world
TOI-815 c is a sub-Neptune orbiting TOI-815, an orange dwarf (type K3V) 195 light-years from Earth. It is about 2.6 times the size of Earth and holds 24 Earth masses. It completes an orbit every 35 days at 0.19 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun, on a strongly elongated orbit (e = 0.22).
Its equilibrium temperature is about 469 K (196 °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 2024 by transit with Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. TOI-815 has 2 known planets; the others are TOI-815 b.