Confirmed Exoplanet Discovered 2010

CoRoT-10 b

A gas giant orbiting the k-type orange CoRoT-10, located approximately 1,103.7 light-years from Earth.

Key parameters at a glance

  • A radius of 10.87 Earth radii
  • A mass of 874.00 Earth masses
  • Surface gravity around 7.40 g
  • An orbital period of 13.241 days
  • Semi-major axis 0.1055 AU
  • Equilibrium temperature 600 K (327 °C)
  • Distance from Earth 1,103.67 light-years
  • Earth Similarity Index 0.302
  • Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 19,463,153 years
  • Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

CoRoT-10 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius
10.87 R⊕
Radius (Jupiter)
0.970 R♃
Mass
874.00 M⊕
Mass (Jupiter)
2.750 M♃
Density
3.70 g/cm³
Surface Gravity
7.40 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.302
HZ Position Inner
Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2010
Method Transit
Facility CoRoT
Telescope 0.27 m CoRoT Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#1681of 1771

top 94.9%

This planet

10.87R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Metric Earth CoRoT-10 b Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)1.0010.8711.21
Mass (M⊕)1.00874.00317.83
Density (g/cm³)5.513.701.33
Surface Gravity (g)1.007.402.53
Insolation (S⊕)1.0016.110.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method Value Interpretation
Best measured mass 874.000 M⊕ Direct mass measurement (not derived).

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 405010127

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 4263752921128319616

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 4263752921128319616

System

CoRoT-10

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 10.870 R⊕ · percentile 5 / cohort 1771
Mass 874.000 M⊕ · percentile 64 / cohort 1747
Orbital period 13.24 d · percentile 46 / cohort 1533
Distance 338.39 pc · percentile 64 / cohort 1759
ESI 0.302 · percentile 59 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period
13.241 days
Semi-major axis
0.1055 AU
Eccentricity
0.530
Inclination
88.55 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 13.24 Earth days (3.6% of a terrestrial year) on a highly eccentric trajectory at a mean orbital distance of 0.1055 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

1.610 %

Duration

2.980 h

Impact parameter b

0.850

Rp / R★

0.126900

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,273.3436

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 16,104 ppm lasting ≈ 2.98 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.126900

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

31.330

Impact parameter (b)

0.850

RV semi-amplitude (K)

301.000 m/s

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,273.3436

Long. of periastron (ω)

218.90°

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.31200

Eq. Temperature

600K

(327 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

16.11

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.302

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the surface is too hot to retain surface water. Close-orbiting tidally-locked around a cool host.

Detection Signatures

Transit photometry

A transit dip has been observed from at least one telescope.

Radial velocity

Stellar wobble has been measured spectroscopically.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Bonomo et al. 2010

Instrument

CoRoT CCD Array

Publication

2010-09

Observation locale

Space

Host System: CoRoT-10

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,075 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.00 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.790 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.890 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.26

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.650 dex

Stellar density

3.320 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

15.33 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

2.00 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance
338.39 parsec
Light-years 1,103.67 ly
V-band magnitude
15.29 mag
Voyager-speed travel 19,463,153 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 13 bands

8.917.317.34B15.29V14.66Gaia13.82TESS14.73Sloan r13.74Sloan i12.53J11.93H11.78K11.64W111.75W211.40W38.92W4

Astrometric Data

Parallax

2.927 mas

Total Proper Motion

22.959 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-3.20 mas/yr

PM Declination

-22.74 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.359 · y = -0.933 · z = 0.013

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 291.06368° · Dec 0.74601°

Galactic ℓ, b

37.361° · -6.953°

Ecliptic λ, β

292.892° · 22.527°

HTM-20 index

1007439110

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