CoRoT-11b is a transiting
exoplanet
An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside the Solar System. The first possible evidence of an exoplanet was noted in 1917 but was not recognized as such. The first confirmation of detection occurred in 1992. A different planet, init ...
found by the
CoRoT space telescope in 2010.
It is a hot
Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the List of Solar System objects by size, largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, but ...
-sized planet orbiting a F6V star with T
e = 6343K, M = 1.27
M☉, R = 1.36
R☉, and nearly-solar metallicity. It has an estimated age between 1.0 and 3.0 Gyr.
References
Hot Jupiters
Transiting exoplanets
Exoplanets discovered in 2010
11b 11B may refer to :
* WASP-11b, an extrasolar planet discovered in 2008
* GCR Class 11B, a class of British 4-4-0 steam locomotive
* Ontario Highway 11B
* New Hampshire Route 11B
* New York State Route 11B
* 802.11b, an IEEE standard for wireless ne ...
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