Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission

By H. Rauer, D. Queloz, S. Csizmadia, M. Deleuil, R. Alonso, Suzanne Aigrain, J. Almenara, M. Auvergne, A. Baglin, P. Barge and 36 more. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2009

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Aims. The CoRoT space mission continues to photometrically monitor about 12 000 stars in its field-of-view for a series of target fields to search for transiting extrasolar planets ever since 2007. Deep transit signals can be detected quickly in the “alarm-mode” in parallel to the ongoing target field monitoring. CoRoT’s first planets have been detected in this mode. Methods. The CoRoT raw lightcurves are filtered for orbital residuals, outliers, and low-frequency stellar signals. The phase folded lightcurve is used to fit the transit signal and derive the main planetary parameters. Radial velocity follow-up observations were initiated to secure the detection and to derive the planet mass. Results. We report the detection of CoRoT-5b, detected during observations of the LRa01 field, the first long-duration field in the galactic anticenter direction. CoRoT-5b is a “hot Jupiter-type” planet with a radius of 1.388 +0.046 −0.047 RJup ,am ass of 0.467

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• Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission . VI. CoRoT-Exo-3b: the first secure inhabitant of the brown-dwarf desert (2008, methodology): “To determine the mass and radius of the parent star we used the same methodology as for the two first CoRoT planets (Barge et al. 2008; Bouchy et al. 2008), i.e. we used Teff and [M/H] from the spectroscopic analysis and M1/3?”
• Stellar limb-darkening coefficients for CoRot and Kepler (2009, result): “We compared the calculated LDCs with results from six of the first seven CoRot exoplanets, four of which have LDCs determined from the transit light curve fit: CoRot-1 (Barge et al. 2008), CoRot-2 (Alonso et al. 2008), CoRot3 (Deleuil et al. 2008), and CoRot-4 (Aigrain et al. 2008).”
• Misaligned spin-orbit in the XO-3 planetary system?† (2008, methodology): “Following the method described in Pollacco et al. (2008) and Barge et al. (2008), we estimated the Moon contamination thanks to the second aperture, targeted on the sky, and then subtracted the sky CCF from the star CCF (after scaling by the throughput of the two fibers).”
• Detection of a transit of the super-Earth 55 Cancri e with warm Spitzer (2011, background): “While CoRoT-7b and Kepler10 b have practically the same composition, 55Cnc e, with its similar effective temperature and mass, has a much lighter composition.”
• Homogeneous studies of transiting extrasolar planets – IV. Thirty systems with space-based light curves (2011, methodology): “Rauer et al. (2009) found a preliminary third light of 8.6% (no uncertainty) so I adoptedL3 = 0.086 ± 0.020 for the JKTEBOP analysis.”
• CoRoT sounds the stars: p-mode parameters of Sun-like oscillations on HD 49933 (2008, background): “Since the launch of CoRoT, in 2006 December, the satellite has already detected several exoplanets (Barge et al. 2008; Alonso et al. 2008; Bouchy et al. 2008).”