CoRoT-20c
Exoplanet
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CoRoT-20c is a brown dwarf-massed substellar companion found by the HARPS radial-velocity search terrestrial telescope. It orbits CoRoT-20, a G2V star in the constellation of Monoceros. It has an effective temperature of 5,880 K (5,610 °C; 10,120 °F), a mass of 1.14 M☉, a radius of 0.92 R☉, and an above-solar metallicity. This is a young planet, with an estimated age between 0.06 and 0.14 Gyr.[2]
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | HARPS |
| Radial velocity | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| 2.9 AU (430,000,000 km)[1] | |
| Eccentricity | 0.6 |
| 1675 d | |
| Star | CoRoT-20 |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mass | above 17 MJ |
