CoRoT-22b is a transiting exoplanet smaller than Uranus found by the CoRoT space telescope in 2011 and confirmed in 2014.[3]

CoRoT-22b
Discovery
Discovered byCoRoT space telescope
Transit
Orbital characteristics
0.092 AU (13,800,000 km)[1]
Eccentricity0.077
9.75598 d
Inclination89.749
StarCoRoT-22
Physical characteristics
0.4354 RJ
Mass0.06MJ
Temperature885 K[2]

Host star

edit

CoRoT-22b orbits CoRoT-22 in the constellation of Serpens. It is a G3V star with an effective temperature of 5,939 K (5,666 °C; 10,231 °F), a mass of 1.099 M, a radius of 1.136 R, and an above-solar metallicity of +0.170.[a] It has an estimated age of between 1.3 and 5.3 Gyr.[3]

Footnotes

edit
  1. ^ This means that CoRoT-22 is 100.170≈1.479 times richer in iron than the Sun.

References

edit
  1. ^ "Notes on CoRoT-22 b". Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia. Retrieved February 25, 2019.
  2. ^ "COROT-22 Planets in the system". Retrieved February 25, 2019.
  3. ^ a b Moutou, C.; et al. (2014), "CoRoT-22 b: A validated 4.9 R⊕ exoplanet in 10-d orbit★†", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 444 (3): 2783–2792, arXiv:1408.2576, doi:10.1093/mnras/stu1645