Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission: I. CoRoT-Exo-1b: A low-density short-period planet around a G0V star

Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission: I. CoRoT-Exo-1b: A low-density short-period planet around a G0V star

Context. The pioneer space mission for photometric planet searches, CoRoT, steadily monitors about 12 000 stars in each of its fields of view. Transit candidates can be detected early in the processing of the data and before the end of a run of observation.Aims. We report the detection of the first...

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Main Authors: Barge, P, Baglin, A, Auvergne, M, Rauer, H, Léger, A, Schneider, J, Pont, F, Aigrain, S, Almenara, J, Alonso, R, Barbieri, M, Bordé, P, Bouchy, F, Deeg, H, De, L, Deleuil, M, Dvorak, R, Erikson, A, Fridlund, M, Gillon, M, Gondoin, P, Guillot, T, Hatzes, A, Hebrard, G, Jorda, L
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2008

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