Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission: XIII. CoRoT-14b: an unusually dense very hot Jupiter

• Main Authors: Tingley, B, Endl, M, Gazzano, J. -C, Alonso, R, Mazeh, T, Jorda, L, Aigrain, S, Almenara, J. -M, Auvergne, M, Baglin, A, Barge, P, Bonomo, A. S, Bordé, P, Bouchy, F, Bruntt, H, Cabrera, J, Carpano, S, Carone, L, Cochran, W. D, Csizmadia, Sz, Deleuil, M, Deeg, H. J, Dvorak, R, Erikson, A, Ferraz-Mello, S, Fridlund, M, Gandolfi, D, Gillon, M, Guenther, E. W, Guillot, T, Hatzes, A, Hébrard, G, Léger, A, Llebaria, A, Lammer, H, Lovis, C, MacQueen, P. J, Moutou, C, Ollivier, M, Ofir, A, Pätzold, M, Pepe, F, Queloz, D, Rauer, H, Rouan, D, Samuel, B, Schneider, J, Shporer, A, Wuchterl, G
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 10-01-2011
• Subjects: Physics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1101.1899

In this paper, the CoRoT Exoplanet Science Team announces its 14th discovery.
Herein, we discuss the observations and analyses that allowed us to derive the
parameters of this system: a hot Jupiter with a mass of $7.6 \pm 0.6$ Jupiter
masses orbiting a solar-type star (F9V) with a period of only 1.5 d, less than
5 stellar radii from its parent star. It is unusual for such a massive planet
to have such a small orbit: only one other known exoplanet with a higher mass
orbits with a shorter period.