COROT-5
Encyclopedia
COROT-5 is an magnitude
14 star located in the Monoceros constellation.
. According to the project website this field is in the Monoceros constellation.
The announcement materials report that the star has a radius of about 116% of the Sun and a mass of about 101% of the Sun.
This star is reported to be a main sequence
F type
star a little larger and hotter than the Sun
.
identified as COROT-5b. The discovery was made using the astronomical transit
method by the COROT
program.
Apparent magnitude
The apparent magnitude of a celestial body is a measure of its brightness as seen by an observer on Earth, adjusted to the value it would have in the absence of the atmosphere...
14 star located in the Monoceros constellation.
Location and properties
The announcement materials identify this star as located within the LRa01 field of view of the COROT spacecraftCorot
Corot may refer to:* Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French landscape painter * COROT, a space mission with the dual aims of finding extrasolar planets and performing asteroseismology* COROT-7, a dwarf star in the Monoceros constellation...
. According to the project website this field is in the Monoceros constellation.
The announcement materials report that the star has a radius of about 116% of the Sun and a mass of about 101% of the Sun.
This star is reported to be a main sequence
Main sequence
The main sequence is a continuous and distinctive band of stars that appears on plots of stellar color versus brightness. These color-magnitude plots are known as Hertzsprung–Russell diagrams after their co-developers, Ejnar Hertzsprung and Henry Norris Russell...
F type
Stellar classification
In astronomy, stellar classification is a classification of stars based on their spectral characteristics. The spectral class of a star is a designated class of a star describing the ionization of its chromosphere, what atomic excitations are most prominent in the light, giving an objective measure...
star a little larger and hotter than the Sun
Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is almost perfectly spherical and consists of hot plasma interwoven with magnetic fields...
.
Planetary system
The announcement states that this parent star is orbited by one known extrasolar planetExtrasolar planet
An extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, is a planet outside the Solar System. A total of such planets have been identified as of . It is now known that a substantial fraction of stars have planets, including perhaps half of all Sun-like stars...
identified as COROT-5b. The discovery was made using the astronomical transit
Astronomical transit
The term transit or astronomical transit has three meanings in astronomy:* A transit is the astronomical event that occurs when one celestial body appears to move across the face of another celestial body, hiding a small part of it, as seen by an observer at some particular vantage point...
method by the COROT
Corot
Corot may refer to:* Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French landscape painter * COROT, a space mission with the dual aims of finding extrasolar planets and performing asteroseismology* COROT-7, a dwarf star in the Monoceros constellation...
program.
See also
- COROTCorotCorot may refer to:* Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French landscape painter * COROT, a space mission with the dual aims of finding extrasolar planets and performing asteroseismology* COROT-7, a dwarf star in the Monoceros constellation...
- an operational French-ledCNESThe is the French government space agency . Established under President Charles de Gaulle in 1961, its headquarters are located in central Paris and it is under the supervision of the French Ministries of Defence and Research...
ESA planet-hunting mission spacecraft, launched in 2006