CoRoT-23b is a transiting
exoplanet
An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside the Solar System. The first possible evidence of an exoplanet was noted in 1917 but was not recognized as such. The first confirmation of detection occurred in 1992. A different planet, init ...
found by the
CoRoT space telescope in 2011.
It is a hot
Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the List of Solar System objects by size, largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, but ...
-sized planet orbiting a G0V star with T
e = 5900K, M = 1.14
M☉, R = 1.61
R☉, and near-solar metallicity. Its age is 6.2 - 8.2 Gyr.
The planet may be in an unstable orbit and subject to merger with the host star in the future.
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Hot Jupiters
Transiting exoplanets
Exoplanets discovered in 2011
22b