Astronomy:TOI-6478 b

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TOI-6478b
Discovery
Discovery date11 April 2025
Transit
Orbital characteristics
0.1136 AU
Eccentricity0.0
Orbital period34.005019 d
Inclination89.898
StarTOI-6478
Physical characteristics
Mean radius4.6 R🜨
Mass9.9 M🜨
Physics204.4 K


TOI-6478b is a cold under-dense Neptune-like exoplanet that orbits around TOI-6478, a M-type main sequence star located 126 light years from Earth in the constellation of Hydra.[1] It has a mass of 9.9 Earth masses and a radius of 4.6 Earth radii. The planet orbital period is 34.005019 days.[2][3] [4]

References

  1. "Find the constellation which contains given sky coordinates". https://djm.cc/constellation.html. 
  2. Scott, Madison G; Triaud, Amaury H M J; Barkaoui, Khalid; Sebastian, Daniel; Burgasser, Adam J; Collins, Karen A; Dransfield, Georgina; Hellier, Coel et al. (2025-05-01). "TOI-6478 b: a cold under-dense Neptune transiting a fully convective M dwarf from the thick disc". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. doi:10.1093/mnras/staf684. ISSN 0035-8711. 
  3. "TOI-6478 b - NASA Ciencia" (in es-US). 2025-05-01. https://ciencia.nasa.gov/exoplanet-catalog/toi-6478-b/. 
  4. Martin, Pierre-Yves (2025). "Planet TOI-6478 b" (in en). https://exoplanet.eu/catalog/toi_6478_b--10947/. 


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