CoRoT-15b is a transiting
brown dwarf
Brown dwarfs (also called failed stars) are substellar objects that are not massive enough to sustain nuclear fusion of ordinary hydrogen ( 1H) into helium in their cores, unlike a main-sequence star. Instead, they have a mass between the most ...
found by the
CoRoT space telescope in 2010.
It is a
brown dwarf
Brown dwarfs (also called failed stars) are substellar objects that are not massive enough to sustain nuclear fusion of ordinary hydrogen ( 1H) into helium in their cores, unlike a main-sequence star. Instead, they have a mass between the most ...
-sized stellar companion orbiting a F7V star
2MASS J06282781+0611105.
References
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Hot Jupiters
Brown dwarfs
Transiting exoplanets
Exoplanets discovered in 2010
15b
Monoceros (constellation)