HATS-74 A

Planetary system · 976.5 light-years away

HATS-74 A is 976 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 1 planet around this 3,777 K star; the first was found in 2021 by transit (HATSouth).

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Worth knowing

HATS-74 A b goes round its star every 41.6 hours, 51 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.

HATS-74 A is one of 2 stars in its system: the other is drawn where the Washington Double Star Catalog measures it on the sky.

The star

Surface temperature3,777 K
Mass0.601 solar masses
Radius0.5758 solar radii
Luminosity0.0608 times the Sun
Apparent magnitude17.26
Ageabout 11 billion years
Distance from the Sun976.5 light-years (299.4 parsecs)
Position (J2000)RA 171.0148°, Dec -19.5570°
ConstellationCrater

The other star

HATS-74 A A has no spectral type listed of magnitude 19.2, moving through space with it. In 2020 it was 0.8″ from HATS-74 A, at position angle 228° (Washington Double Star Catalog, 11241-1933 TOI 737): 240 AU on the sky at this distance. The true distance can only be larger. Its colour is estimated from its brightness.

Planets (1)

PlanetYearOrbitRadiusMassFound
HATS-74 A b41.6 hours0.0238 AU11.568 R⊕464.03 M⊕Transit, 2021

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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