Astronomy:COROT-20c
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Short description: Exoplanet
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | HARPS |
| Transit | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| 2.9 AU (430,000,000 km)[1] | |
| Eccentricity | 0.6 |
| Orbital period | 1675 d |
| Star | COROT-20 (ru) |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mass | above 17|♃|J}}}}}} |
CoRoT-20c is an exoplanet found by the HARPS radial-velocity search terrestrial telescope.
It is an brown dwarf-sized stellar companion orbiting a G2V star with Te = 5880K, M = 1.14M☉, R = 0.92R☉, and above-solar metallicity. It is a young planet, with an estimated age between 0.06 and 0.14 Gyr.[2]
See also
References
- ↑ "Notes on CoRoT-20 c". http://exoplanet.eu/catalog/corot-20_c/. Retrieved February 25, 2019.
- ↑ "A 4.6-year period brown-dwarf companion interacting with the hot-Jupiter CoRoT-20 b". https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.01229.pdf. Retrieved February 25, 2019.
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