CoRoT-20c explained
| CoRoT-20c |
| Discoverer: | HARPS |
| Discovery Method: | Radial velocity |
| Minorplanet: | no |
| Apsis: | astron |
| Semimajor: | 2.9AU[1] |
| Eccentricity: | 0.6 |
| Period: | 1675 d |
| Mass: | above 17 |
CoRoT-20c is a brown dwarf-massed substellar companion found by the HARPS radial-velocity search terrestrial telescope.
Host star
See main article: CoRoT-20. CoRoT-20c orbits CoRoT-20, a G2V star in the constellation of Monoceros. It has an effective temperature of 5880K, a mass of 1.14, a radius of 0.92, and an above-solar metallicity.
Characteristics
It is a young planet, with an estimated age between 0.06 and 0.14 Gyr.[2]
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: Notes on CoRoT-20 c . . February 25, 2019.
- A 4.6-year period brown-dwarf companion interacting with the hot-Jupiter CoRoT-20 b . 10.1051/0004-6361/201833180 . 1807.01229 . Rey . J. . Bouchy . F. . Stalport . M. . Deleuil . M. . Hébrard . G. . Almenara . J. M. . Alonso . R. . Barros . S. C. C. . Bonomo . A. . Cazalet . G. . Delisle . J. B. . Díaz . R. F. . Fridlund . M. . Guenther . E. W. . Guillot . T. . Montagnier . G. . Moutou . C. . Lovis . C. . Queloz . D. . Santerne . A. . Udry . S. . Astronomy & Astrophysics . 2018 . A115 . 619 . 126274116 .
