Finding Earth 2.0
Teegarden's Star · M7.0 V

Teegarden's Star c

Rank #5 of the ranked catalogue · Discovered by Radial Velocity in 2019

HZ 100%M sin i

0.823

Earth-2.0 index

rank #5

0.807

Earth Similarity Index

0.791–0.820 (68% CI)

100%

Conservative HZ probability

1.02 R⊕

Radius

mass: msini_lower_limit

At a glance

Teegarden's Star lies 12.49 light-years (3.831 pc) from the Sun. Teegarden's Star is a M7.0 V star with 0.097× the Sun's mass and 0.12× its radius (effective temperature 3034 K, versus the Sun's 5772 K). It is a single star hosting 3 known planets. Teegarden's Star c is 1.02× Earth's radius, at least 1.05× Earth's mass (a radial-velocity minimum mass, not the true mass), completing one orbit every 11.4 days at 0.0455 AU, on a mildly eccentric orbit (e = 0.04). It receives about 0.35× the flux Earth gets from the Sun, for an equilibrium temperature near 196 K (Earth's is 254 K).

Orbit and habitable-zone boundaries computed in Python from this system’s actual parameters. Sizes and the overall scale are compressed for visibility, not literal; green = conservative HZ, gold = optimistic HZ.

Planet parameters
Radius1.020 R⊕
Mass1.050 M⊕M sin iRadial-velocity minimum mass: the true mass is M/sin(i), so this is a LOWER limit.
Bulk density5.440 g/cm³source: catalogue
Escape velocity11.35 km/s
Orbital period11.4160 days
Semi-major axis0.04550 au
Eccentricity0.040
Incident flux0.350 S⊕source: catalogue
Equilibrium temperature195.5 KBond albedo assumed: 0.306. Equilibrium temperature excludes greenhouse warming by construction. Earth's is 254 K against a 288 K surface.
Host star
NameTeegarden's Star
Spectral typeM7.0 V
Effective temperature3034 K
Radius0.120 R☉
Mass0.097 M☉
Luminosity10^-3.142 L☉
Metallicity [Fe/H]-0.110
Age8.00 Gyr
Distance3.8 pc / 12.5 ly
Multiplicity1 star(s), 3 known planet(s)
Gaia DR3 cross-check
Parallax distance3.83 pc0.02% vs. archive-adopted distance
RUWE1.304
Habitable zone
Boundary modelKopparapu et al. (2013), ApJ 765, 131, with the 2013 erratum coefficients
BoundaryS_eff (Earth units)
recent venus1.4984
runaway greenhouse0.8652
moist greenhouse0.8559
maximum greenhouse0.2324
early mars0.2058
Atmospheric spectroscopy

No published transmission spectrum exists for this planet in the NASA Exoplanet Archive.

Transit analysis

Planet is not flagged as transiting; a light curve cannot show a transit.

Radial-velocity analysis

Not requested for this build.

Measurement sources
ParameterValueSource
Planet radius1.0200archive-calculated (not a publication)
Planet mass1.0500Dreizler et al. 2024
Orbital period11.4160Dreizler et al. 2024
Semi-major axis0.0455Dreizler et al. 2024
Incident flux0.3500Dreizler et al. 2024
Equilibrium temperature209.0000Dreizler et al. 2024
Bulk density5.4400archive-calculated (not a publication)
Orbital eccentricity0.0400Dreizler et al. 2024
Stellar effective temperature3034.0000Dreizler et al. 2024
Stellar radius0.1200Dreizler et al. 2024
Stellar mass0.0970Dreizler et al. 2024
Stellar luminosity-3.1415Dreizler et al. 2024
Stellar metallicity-0.1100Dreizler et al. 2024
Stellar age8.0000Zechmeister et al. 2019
System distance3.8308TICv8

Component scores

Earth similarity

0.807

Conservative habitability

0.948

Observational confidence

0.676

Characterisation potential

Evidence

Independent references
2
Published parameter sets
2
Composite parameter sources
4 · mixed
Default-solution coverage
83%
Composite ↔ default difference
0% median
Uncertainty coverage
83%
Discovery method
Radial Velocity
Discovery year
2019

The archive composite selects values from multiple publications. This is disclosed separately and is not automatically penalised.

Observability

TSM
n/a (non-transiting)
RV semi-amplitude (expected)
1.414 m/s
Transit-time σ at 2030
Max angular separation
11.88 mas
Reflected-light contrast
8.72e-8

Follow-up lanes are diagnostics, not ranking inputs. Reflected light assumes Ag = 0.30 and Lambertian quadrature.

Identifiers

system_name
Teegarden's Star

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