Astronomy:CoRoT-22b
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| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | CoRoT space telescope |
| Transit | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| 0.092 AU (13,800,000 km)[1] | |
| Eccentricity | 0.077 |
| Orbital period | 9.75598 d |
| Inclination | 89.749 |
| Star | CoRoT-22 |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mean radius | 0.4354 |♃|J}}}}}} |
| Mass | 0.06|♃|J}}}}}} |
| Physics | 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]
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.[lower-alpha 1] It has an estimated age of between 1.3 and 5.3 Gyr.[3]
Footnotes
References
- ↑ "Notes on CoRoT-22 b". Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia. https://exoplanet.eu/catalog/corot_22_b--847/. Retrieved February 25, 2019.
- ↑ "COROT-22 Planets in the system". http://www.openexoplanetcatalogue.com/planet/CoRoT-22%20b/. Retrieved February 25, 2019.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 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, doi:10.1093/mnras/stu1645
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