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HAT-P-11

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Also known as Kepler-3, HIP 97657, HIC 97657, KIC 10748390, TOI-1144, NLTT 48335, KOI-3, SPOCS 4127

HAT-P-11, also designated GSC 03561-02092 and Kepler-3, is a metal-rich orange dwarf star with a planetary system, away in the constellation Cygnus. This star is notable for its relatively large rate of proper motion. The apparent magnitude of this star is about 9.6, which means it is not visible to the naked eye but can be seen with a medium-sized amateur telescope on a clear dark night. The age of this star is about 6.5 billion years.

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
EB*
Spectral type
K4V
Distance
123 light-years
Redshift
z = -0.0002116306959100145
Coordinates
RA 297.7094° · Dec 48.0809°
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Wikidata facts

Instance of
variable star
Constellation
Cygnus
Distance from Earth
37.89
Diameter
1130000
Radius
0.683
Mass
0.809
Variable-star type
eclipsing binary star
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spectral class
K4V
catalog code
KOI-3
effective temperature
4780
apparent magnitude
9.158262
radial velocity
-63.7
parallax
26.4274
epoch
J2000.0
metallicity
0.21
stellar rotational velocity
2.706
surface gravity
43000
declination component of proper motion
232.726
luminosity
0.2731644
right ascension component of proper motion
126.095
right ascension
297.70936374039
declination
48.08086149735999
age estimated by a dating method
6.5
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HAT-P-11, also designated GSC 03561-02092 and Kepler-3, is a metal-rich orange dwarf star with a planetary system, away in the constellation Cygnus. This star is notable for its relatively large rate of proper motion. The apparent magnitude of this star is about 9.6, which means it is not visible to the naked eye but can be seen with a medium-sized amateur telescope on a clear dark night. The age of this star is about 6.5 billion years.

The star has active latitudes that generate starspots. The spots are similar in distribution to those on the Sun, but HAT-P-11 is a more active star and has a starspot coverage approximately 100 times greater than the Sun. The star appears to have an unusually small radius, which can be explained by the anomalously high helium fraction.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “HAT-P-11” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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