CoRoT-22b

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CoRoT-22b
Discovery
Discovered by CoRoT space telescope
Transit
Orbital characteristics
0.092 AU (13,800,000 km) [1]
Eccentricity 0.077
9.75598 d
Inclination 89.749
StarCoRoT-22
Physical characteristics
0.4354 RJ
Mass 0.06MJ
Temperature 885 K [2]

    CoRoT-22b is a transiting exoplanet smaller than Uranus found by the CoRoT space telescope in 2011 and confirmed in 2014. [3]

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    Host star

    CoRoT-22b orbits CoRoT-22 in the constellation of Serpens. It is a G3V star with an effective temperature of 5,939 K (5,666 °C; 10,231 °F), a mass of 1.099 M☉, a radius of 1.136 R☉, and an above-solar metallicity of +0.170. [a] It has an estimated age of between 1.3 and 5.3 Gyr. [3]

    Footnotes

    1. ↑ This means that CoRoT-22 is 100.170≈1.479 times richer in iron than the Sun.

    References

    1. ↑ "Notes on CoRoT-22 b". Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia . Retrieved February 25, 2019.
    2. ↑ "COROT-22 Planets in the system" . Retrieved February 25, 2019.
    3. 1 2 Moutou, C.; et al. (2014), "CoRoT-22 b: A validated 4.9 R⊕ exoplanet in 10-d orbit★†", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 444 (3): 2783–2792, arXiv: 1408.2576 , doi: 10.1093/mnras/stu1645
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