Discovery date October 4, 2006 Discovery status Confirmed Discovered 4 October 2006 | Discoverer(s) Sahu et al. Orbital period 43 hours Constellation Sagittarius | |
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Similar SWEEPS‑04, SWEEPS‑10, OGLE‑2005‑BLG‑169L, Sagittarius, OGLE‑TR‑132b | ||
SWEEPS-11 is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star SWEEPS J175902.67−291153.5 in the constellation Sagittarius, approximately 27,710 light years away from the Solar System (based on a distance modulus of 14.1), making it (along with SWEEPS-04) the most distant exoplanet(s) known. This planet was found in 2006 by the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search (SWEEPS) program that uses the transit method.
This hot Jupiter has a mass 9.7 times that of Jupiter and a radius of 1.13 times that of Jupiter. The planet orbits at about 1.75 times closer to the star than 51 Pegasi b is to 51 Pegasi, taking only 1.8 days or 43 hours to revolve around the star.
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