11 Comae Berenices b [SEP] constellation
11 Comae Berenices b
11 Comae Berenices b, (11 Com b) is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star 11 Comae Berenices, approximately 360.79lys away in the constellation of Coma Berenices. It is a massive planet with an estimated minimum mass of 19.4 Jupiters with an orbit around its parent star of 1.29AU. It was discovered in 2007 from discoverer Liu, Y.-J. by radial velocity.
Comae Berenices class of variable stars and the star in which the "flip-flop phenomenon" was discovered. FS Comae Berenices is a semi-regular variable, a red giant with a period of about two months whose magnitude varies between 6.1 and 5.3. R Comae Berenices is a Mira variable with a maximum magnitude of almost 7. There are 123 RR Lyrae variables in the constellation, with many in the M53 galaxy. One of these stars, TU Comae Berenices, may have a binary system. The M100 galaxy contains