Journal
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
Volume 512, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913767
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techniques: photometric; techniques: radial velocities; techniques: spectroscopic; planetary systems
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- Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion [ESP2007-65480-C02-02]
- German CoRoT team (TLS and University of Cologne) DLR [50OW0204, 50OW0603, 50QP07011]
- STFC [ST/G002266/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/G002266/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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The CoRoT satellite exoplanetary team announces its sixth transiting planet in this paper. We describe and discuss the satellite observations as well as the complementary ground-based observations - photometric and spectroscopic - carried out to assess the planetary nature of the object and determine its specific physical parameters. The discovery reported here is a hot Jupiter planet in an 8.9d orbit, 18 stellar radii, or 0.08 AU, away from its primary star, which is a solar-type star (F9V) with an estimated age of 3.0 Gyr. The planet mass is close to 3 times that of Jupiter. The star has a metallicity of 0.2 dex lower than the Sun, and a relatively high Li-7 abundance. While the light curve indicates a much higher level of activity than, e. g., the Sun, there is no sign of activity spectroscopically in e. g., the [Ca II] H&K lines.
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