CoRoT-5b (previously named CoRoT-Exo-5b) is an extrasolar planet orbiting the
F-type star
CoRoT-5. It was first reported by the
CoRoT
CoRoT (French: ; English: Convection, Rotation and planetary Transits) was a space telescope mission which operated from 2006 to 2013. The mission's two objectives were to search for extrasolar planets with short orbital periods, particularly t ...
mission team in 2008 using the
transit method
Methods of detecting exoplanets usually rely on indirect strategies – that is, they do not directly image the planet but deduce its existence from another signal. Any planet is an extremely faint light source compared to its parent star. For e ...
.
This planet has been confirmed by a
Doppler
The Doppler effect (also Doppler shift) is the change in the frequency of a wave in relation to an observer who is moving relative to the source of the wave. The ''Doppler effect'' is named after the physicist Christian Doppler, who described ...
follow-up study.
Properties and location
This planetary object is reported to be about half the mass of
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 Jupiter mass, mass more than 2.5 times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined a ...
but slightly larger in terms of radius
at 0.467 and 1.388 .
See also
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CoRoT-6b
References
External links
ESA Portal - Exoplanet hunt update
Hot Jupiters
Transiting exoplanets
Exoplanets discovered in 2008
Giant planets
5b
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Monoceros