Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission. XVIII. CoRoT-18b: a massive hot jupiter on a prograde, nearly aligned orbit

We report the detection of CoRoT-18b, a massive hot jupiter transiting in front of its host star with a period of 1.9000693 +/- 0.0000028 days. This planet was discovered thanks to photometric data secured with the CoRoT satellite combined with spectroscopic and photometric ground-based follow-up ob...

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Main Authors:	Hebrard, G, Evans, T, Alonso, R, Fridlund, M, Ofir, A, Aigrain, S, Guillot, T, Almenara, J, Auvergne, M, Baglin, A, Barge, P, Bonomo, A, Borde, P, Bouchy, F, Cabrera, J, Carone, L, Carpano, S, Cavarroc, C, Csizmadia, S, Deeg, H, Deleuil, M, Diaz, R, Dvorak, R, Erikson, A, Ferraz-Mello, S
Format:	Journal article
Language:	English
Published:	2011

Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission. XVIII. CoRoT-18b: a massive hot jupiter on a prograde, nearly aligned orbit

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