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Radial velocity · 2018

HAT-P-11 c

This world receives 62.1× less starlight than Earth; a year lasts 9.2 years; the light you see left it 123 years ago.

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Size
1.2 × Jupiterestimated
A year
9.2 years4.1 AU
Temperature
−182 °C92 K

About this world

HAT-P-11 c is a gas giant orbiting HAT-P-11, an orange dwarf (type K4) 123 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.2 times the size of Jupiter (its size estimated from its mass) and holds 2.7 Jupiter masses. It completes an orbit every 9.2 years at 4.1 AU from its star, on a strongly elongated orbit (e = 0.65).

Its equilibrium temperature is about 92 K (−182 °C): too cold for liquid water on its surface. At its size it almost certainly keeps a deep envelope of hydrogen and helium.

It was discovered in 2018 by radial velocity with W. M. Keck Observatory. The star wobbles toward and away from us, Doppler-shifting its spectrum. HAT-P-11 has 2 known planets; the others are HAT-P-11 b.

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