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Transit · 2023

TOI-836 b

This world receives 78.8× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 3.82 days; the light you see left it 90 years ago.

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Size
1.7 × Earth 
A year
3.82 days0.0422 AU
Temperature
598 °C871 K

About this world

TOI-836 b is a super-Earth orbiting TOI-836, an orange dwarf (type KV) 89.7 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.7 times the size of Earth and holds 4.5 Earth masses. It completes an orbit every 3.82 days at 0.042 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 871 K (598 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. By the "cosmic shoreline", its star has probably stripped its atmosphere away, leaving bare rock. Its atmosphere has already been studied: 5 spectroscopic observations, 2 of them with the James Webb Space Telescope.

It was discovered in 2023 by transit with Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. TOI-836 has 2 known planets; the others are TOI-836.01.

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