ENDL , M.

The CoRoT satellite has provided high-precision photometric light curves for more than 163 000 stars and found several hundreds of transiting systems compatible with a planetary scenario. If ground-based velocimetric observations are the best way to identify the actual planets among many possible configurations of eclipsing binary systems,...

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We report the discovery of two transiting exoplanets, CoRoT-25b and CoRoT-26b, both of low density, one of which is in the Saturn mass-regime. For each star, ground-based complementary observations through optical photometry and radial velocity measurements secured the planetary nature of the transiting body and allowed us to fully characterize...

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We report the discovery by the CoRoT satellite of a new transiting giant planet in a 2.83 days orbit about a V = 15.5 solar analog star (M * = 1.08± 0.08 M , R * = 1.1± 0.1 R , T eff = 5675± 80 K). This new planet, CoRoT-12b, has a mass of 0.92± 0.07 M Jup and a radius of 1.44± 0.13 R Jup. Its low density can be explained by standard models for...

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