CoRoT-14b 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 2010.
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 F9V star with T
e = 6035K, M = 1.13
M☉, R = 1.21
R☉, and near-solar metallicity. It has an estimated age between 0.4 and 8.0 Gyr.
The planet is unusually dense (7.3 g/cm
3) for its mass and distance from host star, making COROT-14b one of the most dense gas giants known.
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See also
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WASP-18b
WASP-18b is an extrasolar planet that is notable for having an orbital period of less than one day. It has a mass equal to 10 Jupiter masses, just below the boundary line between planets and brown dwarfs (about 13 Jupiter masses). Due to tidal de ...
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COROT-20b
CoRoT-20b is a transiting Extrasolar planet, exoplanet found by the CoRoT space telescope in 2011.
It is a hot Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a G2V star with Te = 5880K, M = 1.14Solar mass, M☉, R = 0.92Solar radius, R☉, and above-solar metalli ...
Hot Jupiters
Transiting exoplanets
Exoplanets discovered in 2010
14b
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