CoRoT-20c

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.^[2]

CoRoT-20c

Discovery
Discovered by	HARPS
Detection method	Radial velocity
Orbital characteristics
Semi-major axis	2.9 AU (430,000,000 km)[1]
Eccentricity	0.6
Orbital period (sidereal)	1675 d
Star	CoRoT-20
Physical characteristics
Mass	above 17 MJ

See also

• CoRoT-20b