Discovery | |
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Discovered by | CoRoT space telescope |
Transit | |
Orbital characteristics | |
0.0902 AU (13,490,000 km) [1] | |
Eccentricity | 0.562 |
9.24285 d | |
Inclination | 88.21 |
Star | CoRoT-20 |
Physical characteristics | |
0.84 RJ | |
Mass | 4.24MJ |
Temperature | 1002 K [2] |
CoRoT-20b is a transiting exoplanet found by the CoRoT space telescope in 2011.
It is a hot Jupiter-sized planet orbiting CoRoT-20. It is a young planet, with an estimated age between 0.06 and 0.14 Gyr. Its density (8.87 g/cm3) is remarkably high for its mass, making CoRoT-20b one of the most compact gas giants. [3]
The host star, CoRoT-20, is a G2V star with an effective temperature of 5,880 K (5,610 °C; 10,120 °F), a mass of 1.14 M☉, a radius of 0.92 R☉, and an above-solar metallicity. It also hosts another exoplanet, CoRoT-20c.
CoRoT was a space telescope mission which operated from 2006 to 2013. The mission's two objectives were to search for extrasolar planets with short orbital periods, particularly those of large terrestrial size, and to perform asteroseismology by measuring solar-like oscillations in stars. The mission was led by the French Space Agency (CNES) in conjunction with the European Space Agency (ESA) and other international partners.
A super-Jupiter is a gas giant exoplanet that is more massive than the planet Jupiter. For example, companions at the planet–brown dwarf borderline have been called super-Jupiters, such as around the star Kappa Andromedae.
Chthonian planets are a hypothetical class of celestial objects resulting from the stripping away of a gas giant's hydrogen and helium atmosphere and outer layers, which is called hydrodynamic escape. Such atmospheric stripping is a likely result of proximity to a star. The remaining rocky or metallic core would resemble a terrestrial planet in many respects.
This page describes exoplanet orbital and physical parameters.
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