CoRoT-20c

CoRoT-20c
Discovery
Discovered byHARPS
Radial velocity
Orbital characteristics
2.9 AU (430,000,000 km)
Eccentricity0.6
1675 d
StarCoRoT-20
Physical characteristics
Massabove 17 MJ

    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.