SWEEPS-11
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SWEEPS-11 is an extrasolar planet orbiting 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.
Key facts
- Planet.name
- SWEEPS - 11
- Planet.image
- Exoplanet Comparison SWEEPS-11 b.png
- Planet.caption
- Size comparison of SWEEPS-11 with Jupiter.
- Planet.discoverer
- SWEEPS.
- Planet.discovered
- October 4, 2006
- Planet.discovery_method
- Transit
- Planet.apsis
- astron
- Planet.period
- 1.796 d
- Planet.inclination
- >84
- Planet.star
- SWEEPS J175902.67−291153.5
- Planet.mean_radius
- 1.13±0.21
- Planet.mass
- 9.7±5.6
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SWEEPS-11 is an extrasolar planet orbiting 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, but the uncertainty in this value is large, around 21%. 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 orbit the star. It is also the most distant planet yet discovered.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “SWEEPS-11” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.