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transiting extrasolar planets Any planet is an extremely faint light source compared to its parent star. For example, a star like the Sun is about a billion times as bright as the reflected light from any of the planets orbiting it. In addition to the intrinsic difficulty ...

sorted by orbital periods. All the transiting planets have

true mass In astronomy, minimum mass is the lower-bound calculated mass of observed objects such as planets, stars and binary systems, nebulae, and black holes. Minimum mass is a widely cited statistic for extrasolar planets detected by the radial veloci ...

es, radii and most have known inclinations. Radius is determined by how much the star dims during the transit and inclination is determined from

Rossiter–McLaughlin effect The Rossiter–McLaughlin effect is a spectroscopic phenomenon observed when an object moves across the face of a star. Description The Rossiter–McLaughlin effect is a spectroscopic phenomenon observed when either an eclipsing binary's secon ...

. True mass is determined by the

minimum mass In astronomy, minimum mass is the lower-bound calculated mass of observed objects such as planets, stars and binary systems, nebulae, and black holes. Minimum mass is a widely cited statistic for extrasolar planets detected by the radial veloc ...

determined from radial velocity observations divided by the sine of inclination. The first known planet to be discovered with the

transit Transit may refer to: Arts and entertainment Film * ''Transit'' (1979 film), a 1979 Israeli film * ''Transit'' (2005 film), a film produced by MTV and Staying-Alive about four people in countries in the world * ''Transit'' (2006 film), a 2006 ...

method was

OGLE-TR-56b OGLE-TR-56b is an extrasolar planet located approximately 1500 parsecs away in the constellation of Sagittarius, orbiting the star OGLE-TR-56. This planet was the first known exoplanet to be discovered with the transit method. The object was disc ...

. The first planetary transit observed (by already known exoplanet) was caused by

HD 209458 b HD 209458 b, which is also nicknamed Osiris after the Egyptian god, is an exoplanet that orbits the solar analog HD 209458 in the constellation Pegasus, some from the Solar System. The radius of the planet's orbit is , or one-eighth the radius ...

. The most massive transiting exoplanet is KELT-1b which masses 27.23 M_J (making it a

brown dwarf Brown dwarfs (also called failed stars) are substellar objects that are not massive enough to sustain nuclear fusion of ordinary hydrogen ( 1H) into helium in their cores, unlike a main-sequence star. Instead, they have a mass between the most ...

) while the least massive is

Kepler-42 Kepler-42, formerly known as KOI-961, is a red dwarf located in the constellation Cygnus and approximately 131 light years from the Sun. It has three known extrasolar planets, all of which are smaller than Earth in radius, and likely ...

d which masses less than 0.003 M_J or 0.9 M_🜨.NASA.gov
/ref> The largest exoplanet known is HAT-P-32b which is 2.037 R_J. The smallest exoplanet known is also

d which is 0.051 R_J or 0.57 R_🜨. The densest transiting exoplanet known is COROT-3b, which has density of 26.4 g/cm³; the diffusest transiting planet known is Kepler-12b, which has density of only 0.111 g/cm³. The longest period of any transiting planets is

Kepler-1647b Kepler-1647b (sometimes named Kepler-1647(AB)-b to distinguish it from the secondary component) is a circumbinary exoplanet that orbits the binary star system Kepler-1647, from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. It was announced on June 13, 2 ...

, which takes 1107 days to orbit its (double) stars.Astronomers Discover Circumbinary Planet 3,700 Light-Years Away
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/ref> The shortest period is Kepler-42c, which takes just 0.45 days to orbit its star There are 54 members of multi-planet systems. ''Yellow rows denote members of a multi-planet system''

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* * {{exoplanet Transiting exoplanets

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