CoRoT-11b is a transiting exoplanet found by the CoRoT space telescope in 2010.[citation needed]
Discovery | |
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Discovered by | CoRoT space telescope |
Detection method | Transit |
Orbital characteristics | |
Semi-major axis | 0.04351 AU (6,509,000 km)[1] |
Eccentricity | 0 |
Orbital period (sidereal) | 2.994325 d |
Inclination | 81.41 |
Star | COROT-11 [ru] |
Physical characteristics | |
Mean radius | 1.43 RJ |
Mass | 2.33MJ |
Temperature | 1593 K[2] |
It is a hot Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a F6V star with Te = 6343K, M = 1.27M☉, R = 1.36R☉, and nearly-solar metallicity. It has an estimated age between 1.0 and 3.0 Gyr.[citation needed]