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Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission: XV. CoRoT-15b: A brown-dwarf transiting companion

Astronomy and Astrophysics 525:19 (2011)

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F Bouchy, M Deleuil, T Guillot, S Aigrain, L Carone, WD Cochran, JM Almenara, R Alonso, M Auvergne, A Baglin, P Barge, AS Bonomo, P Bordé, S Csizmadia, K De Bondt, HJ Deeg, RF Díaz, R Dvorak, M Endl, A Erikson, S Ferraz-Mello, M Fridlund, D Gandolfi, JC Gazzano, N Gibson, M Gillon, E Guenther, A Hatzes, M Havel, G Hébrard, L Jorda, A Léger, C Lovis, A Llebaria, H Lammer, PJ MacQueen, T Mazeh, C Moutou, A Ofir, M Ollivier, H Parviainen, M Pätzold, D Queloz, H Rauer, D Rouan, A Santerne, J Schneider, B Tingley, G Wuchterl

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We report the discovery by the CoRoT space mission of a transiting brown dwarf orbiting a F7V star with an orbital period of 3.06 days. CoRoT-15b has a radius of 1.12+0.30-0.15 RJup and a mass of 63.3 ± 4.1 MJup, and is thus the second transiting companion lying in the theoretical mass domain of brown dwarfs. CoRoT-15b is either very young or inflated compared to standard evolution models, a situation similar to that of M-dwarf stars orbiting close to solar-typestars. Spectroscopic constraints and an analysis of the lightcurve imply a spin period in the range 2.9-3.1 days for the central star, which is compatible with a double-synchronisation of the system. © ESO, 2010. © 2010 ESO.

Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission. XV. CoRoT-15b: a brown-dwarf transiting companion

åp 525 (2011) A68-A68

Authors:

F Bouchy, M Deleuil, T Guillot, S Aigrain, L Carone, WD Cochran, JM Almenara, R Alonso, M Auvergne, A Baglin, P Barge, AS Bonomo, P Bordé, S Csizmadia, K de Bondt, HJ Deeg, RF Díaz, R Dvorak, M Endl, A Erikson, S Ferraz-Mello, M Fridlund, D Gandolfi, JC Gazzano, N Gibson, M Gillon, E Guenther, A Hatzes, M Havel, G Hébrard, L Jorda, A Léger, C Lovis, A Llebaria, H Lammer, PJ MacQueen, T Mazeh, C Moutou, A Ofir, M Ollivier, H Parviainen, M Pätzold, D Queloz, H Rauer, D Rouan, A Santerne, J Schneider, B Tingley, G Wuchterl
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A simple method to estimate radial velocity variations due to stellar activity using photometry

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2011)

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S Aigrain, F Pont, S Zucker
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ASTEP: Towards the detection and characterization of exoplanets from Dome C

DETECTION AND DYNAMICS OF TRANSITING EXOPLANETS 11 (2011) ARTN 06001

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N Crouzet, T Guillot, K Agabi, J-B Daban, L Abe, D Mekarnia, J-P Rivet, Y Fantei-Caujolle, F Fressin, C Gouvret, F-X Schmider, F Valbousquet, A Blazit, H Rauer, A Erikson, T Fruth, S Aigrain, F Pont, M Barbieri
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ASTEP: Towards the detection and characterization of exoplanets from Dome C

EPJ Web of Conferences EDP Sciences 11 (2011) 06001

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N Crouzet, T Guillot, K Agabi, J-B Daban, L Abe, D Mekarnia, J-P Rivet, Y Fanteï-Caujolle, F Fressin, C Gouvret, F-X Schmider, F Valbousquet, A Blazit, H Rauer, A Erikson, T Fruth, S Aigrain, F Pont, M Barbieri
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