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NGTS-6

Unclassified star • 308.3 pc

Records

4

literature rows

Planets

1

system count

References

5

distinct source labels

TIC: TIC 1528696

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: Vines et al. 2019 • System source: TICv8

Temperature

4730 K

4669 to 4975

4 values • 3 distinct

Mass

0.77 Msun

0.74 to 0.77

2 values • 2 distinct

Radius

0.75 Rsun

0.66 to 0.78

4 values • 3 distinct

Age

9.77 Gyr

single adopted value

1 values • 1 distinct

Luminosity

-0.59 log(Lsun)

-0.62 to -0.58

3 values • 3 distinct

Distance

308.3 pc

single adopted value

4 values • 1 distinct

Planets

1

Stable across source rows

1

Scale Comparison

Radius against the Sun

Current adopted radius: 0.75 R☉ (circles scaled linearly by radius)

Sun

1.0 R☉ baseline

NGTS-6

0.75 R☉

System Layout

Known planets

1 planets linked to this host

NGTS-6 b

Transit

◌

Discovery

2019

Period

0.88 days

Radius

14.86 R⊕

Mass

425.6 M⊕

Eq. Temp

1283.9 K

NGTS-6 and Its Jupiter-Like Planet

NGTS-6 is a star 1010 light-years away with one known planet. The star is 9.77 billion years old and has a mass of 0.767 solar masses, a radius of 0.754 solar radii, and a temperature of 4730 K. Its mass and radius are each smaller than the Sun's, while its temperature is cooler than the Sun's.

The planet NGTS-6 b is a Jupiter-like world discovered by transit in 2019. A transit occurs when a planet passes in front of its star from our viewpoint, causing a small dip in observed brightness. NGTS-6 b has a mass of 426 Earth masses and a radius of 14.9 Earth radii, both larger than Earth's. Its radius exceeds four times Earth's, placing it in the Jupiter-like class, and its mass is roughly 1.34 times Jupiter's mass. NGTS-6 b completes an orbit in 0.882 days, and its mean density is 0.714 g/cm³, 0.13 times Earth's.

Provenance

Underlying measurements and references

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Evidence Summary

Rows

4

Stellar refs

4

System refs

1

Distancestable

4 values • 1 distinct

Parallaxstable

4 values • 1 distinct

Temperaturedisputed

4 values • 3 distinct

Massdisputed

2 values • 2 distinct

Radiusdisputed

4 values • 3 distinct

Agestable

1 values • 1 distinct

Luminositydisputed

3 values • 3 distinct

Surface Gravitydisputed

3 values • 3 distinct

Metallicitystable

1 values • 1 distinct

ST TEFFST MASSST RADST AGEST LUMST SPECTYPESY DISTStellar RefSystem Ref
47300.770.759.77-0.59—308.3Vines et al. 2019TICv8
46690.740.78—-0.58—308.3TICv8TICv8
4669—0.78———308.3ExoFOPTICv8
4975—0.66—-0.62—308.3Gaia DR2TICv8