HAT-P-2

Planetary system · 416.7 light-years away · also HD 147506, HIP 80076

HAT-P-2 is 417 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 2 planets around this F8 star; the first was found in 2007 by transit (HATNet).

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Worth knowing

HAT-P-2 b goes round its star every 5.63 days, 16 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.

Where the archive gives only a period or only an orbit size, the other is worked out from Kepler’s third law with the star’s mass.

The star

Spectral typeF8
Surface temperature6,380 K
Mass1.33 solar masses
Radius1.39 solar radii
Luminosity3.388 times the Sun
Apparent magnitude8.72
Ageabout 1.44 billion years
Distance from the Sun416.7 light-years (127.8 parsecs)
Position (J2000)RA 245.1514°, Dec 41.0480°
ConstellationHercules

Planets (2)

PlanetYearOrbitRadiusMassFound
HAT-P-2 b5.63 days0.0681 AU10.66 R⊕2866.8 M⊕Transit, 2007
HAT-P-2 c23.3 years8.964 AU from Kepler’s law12.4 R⊕ estimated3400.8 M⊕Radial Velocity, 2023

Values are the NASA Exoplanet Archive’s composite parameters. A radius marked estimated comes from a mass–radius relation; a mass marked minimum is M sin i. Planet sizes and colours in the 3D view are renderings: none of these worlds has been photographed as more than a point of light.

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