GJ 1252 is a red dwarf star located 66.5 light-years (20.4 parsecs) away from the Solar System in the constellation of Telescopium. The star has about 38% the mass and 39% the radius of the Sun, and a temperature of about 3,458 K (3,185 °C; 5,765 °F). GJ 1252 is orbited by one known exoplanet.[3]
Planetary system

GJ 1252 was found to have a planet, GJ 1252 b, in 2019 using transit observations from TESS.[3] It is a terrestrial planet larger than Earth, with about 1.3 times the mass and 1.18 times the radius of Earth. Orbiting its star with a very short period of just 12.4 hours, it is presumably tidally locked. Secondary eclipse observations have shown that GJ 1252 b lacks a significant atmosphere, similar to LHS 3844 b and TRAPPIST-1b, and have measured its dayside temperature at about 1,410 K (1,140 °C; 2,080 °F).[5][7]
Companion (in order from star) |
Mass | Semimajor axis (AU) |
Orbital period (days) |
Eccentricity | Inclination | Radius |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
b | 1.32±0.28 M🜨 | 0.00915±0.00015 | 0.51824160 | — | 84.8±3.2° | 1.180±0.078 R🜨 |
References
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- ^ a b c d e f g h i Shporer, Avi; Collins, Karen A.; et al. (February 2020). "GJ 1252 b: A 1.2 R⊕ Planet Transiting an M3 Dwarf at 20.4 pc". The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 890 (1): L7. arXiv:1912.05556. Bibcode:2020ApJ...890L...7S. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ab7020.
- ^ Reid, I. Neill; et al. (October 1995). "The Palomar/MSU Nearby-Star Spectroscopic Survey. I. The Northern M Dwarfs -Bandstrengths and Kinematics". Astronomical Journal. 110: 1838. Bibcode:1995AJ....110.1838R. doi:10.1086/117655.
- ^ a b c Crossfield, Ian J. M.; Malik, Matej; et al. (September 2022). "GJ 1252b: A Hot Terrestrial Super-Earth with No Atmosphere". The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 937 (1): L17. arXiv:2208.09479. Bibcode:2022ApJ...937L..17C. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ac886b.
- ^ "GJ 1252". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
- ^ a b Gohd, Chelsea (11 October 2022). "Discovery Alert: Ultra-hot 'Super-Earth' Could Have No Atmosphere". NASA. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
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