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Corot Exo-1b - first planet discovery for Corot

By catdynamics on May 3, 2007.

Corot has first discovery announcement

Corot Exo1b - 1.3 Jupiter masses, radius of 1.5-1.8 Jupiter radiii around G dwardf with 1.5 day orbital period.
So another short period, bloated Jupiter. Star is 500 pc away, so I'm guessing roughly 12th magnitude.

Specs at extrasolar encyclopedia

The big news is the very high precision photometry they are claiming, their sensitivity looks very good, and they should go to lower masses than anticipated over the next year.

Current photometry looks to be 50 micromagnitudes, compared with specs of 0.7 millimagnitudes and they still haven't beaten down the data yet, are extrapolating to 10 micromagnitudes, which is better than the Kepler specs!

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We are going to see some very, very interesting extrasolar planet discovery announcements over the next year or few.
This is going to be a fun time.

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By Brad Holden (not verified) on 03 May 2007 #permalink

Of course, the cynical view is that they will now get to struggle with
systematics that they wouldn't have had to bother with before...