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CT Cha

Unclassified star • 190.7 pc

Records

5

literature rows

Planets

1

system count

References

6

distinct source labels

TIC: TIC 454259409

Approximate color

from effective temperature

Canonical Summary

Adopted host values from one source row

Values come from the row with the most populated summary measurements. Missing values stay missing. Ranges and counts describe all source rows.

Stellar source: Gaia DR2 • System source: TICv8

Temperature

4200.2 K

4200.2 to 4464

3 values • 3 distinct

Radius

1.68 Rsun

1.68 to 1.81

2 values • 2 distinct

Luminosity

-0.10 log(Lsun)

single adopted value

1 values • 1 distinct

Distance

190.7 pc

single adopted value

5 values • 1 distinct

Planets

1

Stable across source rows

1

Scale Comparison

Radius against the Sun

Current adopted radius: 1.68 R☉ • circles scaled linearly by radius

Sun

1.0 R☉ baseline

CT Cha

1.68 R☉

System Layout

Known planets

1 planets linked to this host

CT Cha b

Imaging

◌

Discovery

2007

Period

—

Radius

24.66 R⊕

Mass

5403 M⊕

Eq. Temp

2600 K

CT Cha b: A Jupiter-Like Planet Around a K-Type Star

CT Cha is a K5e star 622 light-years away, with a radius of 1.68 solar radii and a temperature of 4200 K. Its radius is larger than the Sun's, and its temperature is cooler.

CT Cha b is a Jupiter-like planet discovered by imaging in 2007. Its mass is 5400 Earth masses and its radius is 24.7 Earth radii, both larger than Earth's; its mass is roughly 17 times Jupiter's. No orbital period is reported. Its mean density is 1.99 g/cm³, 0.36 times Earth's.

Provenance

Underlying measurements and references

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Evidence Summary

Rows

5

Stellar refs

5

System refs

1

Distancestable

5 values • 1 distinct

Parallaxstable

5 values • 1 distinct

Temperaturedisputed

3 values • 3 distinct

Radiusdisputed

2 values • 2 distinct

Agestable

1 values • 1 distinct

Luminositystable

1 values • 1 distinct

Surface Gravitystable

1 values • 1 distinct

Metallicitystable

1 values • 1 distinct

Spectral Typestable

1 values • 1 distinct

ST TEFFST MASSST RADST AGEST LUMST SPECTYPESY DISTStellar RefSystem Ref
4200.2—1.68—-0.10—190.7Gaia DR2TICv8
4403—————190.7Swastik et al. 2021TICv8
—————K5e190.7Luhman 2004TICv8
———2.00e-3——190.7Schmidt et al. 2008TICv8
4464—1.81———190.7TICv8TICv8