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HD 168863

Unclassified star • 39.90 pc

Records

3

literature rows

Planets

1

system count

References

4

distinct source labels

HIP: HIP 90055TIC: TIC 167730892HD: HD 168863

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: TICv8 • System source: TICv8

Temperature

4905 K

single adopted value

1 values • 1 distinct

Mass

0.80 Msun

0.80 to 0.83

3 values • 2 distinct

Radius

0.78 Rsun

single adopted value

1 values • 1 distinct

Luminosity

-0.50 log(Lsun)

single adopted value

1 values • 1 distinct

Distance

39.90 pc

single adopted value

3 values • 1 distinct

Planets

1

Stable across source rows

1

Scale Comparison

Radius against the Sun

Current adopted radius: 0.78 R☉ • circles scaled linearly by radius

Sun

1.0 R☉ baseline

HD 168863

0.78 R☉

System Layout

Known planets

1 planets linked to this host

HD 168863 b

Radial Velocity

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Discovery

2022

Period

1.48e4 days

Radius

—

Mass

2154.9 M⊕

Eq. Temp

—

HD 168863 and Its Lone Known Planet

HD 168863 is a star 130 light-years from Earth. It has 0.8 solar masses and a radius of 0.778 solar radii, and its temperature is 4910 K, making it less massive, smaller, and cooler than the Sun. One known planet orbits this host.

That planet, HD 168863 b, was discovered in 2022 by the radial velocity method, which detects the wobble a planet's gravity induces in its star. It has a mass of 2150 Earth masses and an orbital period of 14800 days, the time it takes to complete one orbit. That mass is larger than Earth's and roughly 6.78 times Jupiter's mass.

Provenance

Underlying measurements and references

Evidence Summary

Rows

3

Stellar refs

3

System refs

1

Distancestable

3 values • 1 distinct

Parallaxstable

3 values • 1 distinct

Temperaturestable

1 values • 1 distinct

Massdisputed

3 values • 2 distinct

Radiusstable

1 values • 1 distinct

Luminositystable

1 values • 1 distinct

Surface Gravitystable

1 values • 1 distinct

Metallicitystable

1 values • 1 distinct

ST TEFFST MASSST RADST AGEST LUMST SPECTYPESY DISTStellar RefSystem Ref
—0.80————39.90Feng et al. 2022TICv8
—0.83————39.90An et al. 2025TICv8
49050.800.78—-0.50—39.90TICv8TICv8