Astronomy:CoRoT-11b

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COROT-11b
Discovery
Discovered byCoRoT space telescope
Transit
Orbital characteristics
0.04351 AU (6,509,000 km)[1]
Eccentricity0
Orbital period2.99427803(49) d[2]
Inclination81.41
StarCoRoT-11
Physical characteristics
Mean radius1.43 |♃|J}}}}}}
Mass2.33 ||J}}}}}}
Physics1593 K[3]


Comparison of best-fit size of the exoplanet CoRoT-11 b with the Solar System planet Jupiter
CoRoT-11 b beside Jupiter

CoRoT-11b is a transiting Hot Jupiter-sized exoplanet found by the CoRoT space telescope in 2010.[4] From obtained light curves and Bayesian inference on the data, it is highly likely that CoRoT-11b has been observed in a secondary eclipse around its host star (transiting behind it). [5]

Host star

CoRoT-11b orbits the star CoRoT-11 in the constellation of Serpens. It is a F6V star with an effective temperature of 6440±120 K, a mass of 1.270±0.050 M, a radius of 1.370±0.030 R, and a near-solar metallicity of −0.03±0.08 dex.[lower-alpha 1] It has an estimated age of 2.0±1.0 Gyr.[6]

References

  1. "Notes on CoRoT-11 b". Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia. https://exoplanet.eu/catalog/corot_11_b--645/. 
  2. Kokori, A. et al. (14 February 2023). "ExoClock Project. III. 450 New Exoplanet Ephemerides from Ground and Space Observations". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 265 (1). doi:10.3847/1538-4365/ac9da4. Bibcode2023ApJS..265....4K.  Vizier catalog entry
  3. "COROT-11 Planets in the system". http://www.openexoplanetcatalogue.com/planet/CoRoT-11%20b/. Retrieved February 25, 2019. 
  4. Gandolfi, D. et al. (23 November 2010). "Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission. XIV. CoRoT-11b: a transiting massive "hot-Jupiter" in a prograde orbit around a rapidly rotating F-type star". Astronomy and Astrophysics 524. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201015132. Bibcode2010A&A...524A..55G. 
  5. https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2013/02/aa20081-12/aa20081-12.html
  6. Bonomo, A. S. et al. (2017). "The GAPS Programme with HARPS-N at TNG: XIV. Investigating giant planet migration history via improved eccentricity and mass determination for 231 transiting planets⋆". Astronomy & Astrophysics 602: A107. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201629882. ISSN 0004-6361. 

Footnotes

  1. This means that the star has an iron content 1.07+0.22
    −0.18
    times that of the Sun.