Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 15.56 Earth radii
A mass of 148.42 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 0.61 g
An orbital period of 4.038 days
Semi-major axis 0.0495 AU
Equilibrium temperature 1,438 K (1165 °C)
Distance from Earth 2,878.24 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.071
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 50,757,678 years

CoRoT-5 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

15.56 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

1.388 R♃

Mass

148.42 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.467 M♃

Density

0.22 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

0.61 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.071

HZ Position Inner

Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2009

Method Transit

Facility CoRoT

Telescope 0.27 m CoRoT Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#195of 1771

top 11.0%

This planet

15.56R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

TOI-3321 b 15.56 R⊕ WASP-120 b 15.58 R⊕ HD 209458 b 15.58 R⊕

Metric	Earth	CoRoT-5 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	15.56	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	148.42	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	0.22	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	0.61	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	786.29	0.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method	Value	Interpretation
Best measured mass	148.420 M⊕	Direct mass measurement (not derived).

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 234112540

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 3125611120515388800

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 3125611120515388800

System

CoRoT-5

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 15.558 R⊕ · percentile 89 / cohort 1771

Mass 148.420 M⊕ · percentile 12 / cohort 1747

Orbital period 4.04 d · percentile 29 / cohort 1533

Distance 882.47 pc · percentile 85 / cohort 1759

ESI 0.071 · percentile 13 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

4.038 days

Semi-major axis

0.0495 AU

Eccentricity

0.090

Inclination

85.83 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 4.04 Earth days (1.1% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0495 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

1.461 %

Duration

2.933 h

Impact parameter b

0.755

Rp / R★

0.115500

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,400.1989

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 14,610 ppm lasting ≈ 2.93 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.115500

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

9.540

Impact parameter (b)

0.755

RV semi-amplitude (K)

59.100 m/s

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,400.1989

Long. of periastron (ω)

-128.34°

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.05610

Eq. Temperature

1,438K

(1165 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

786.29

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.071

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the dayside is scorched.

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

Rauer et al. 2009

Instrument

CoRoT CCD Array

Publication

2009-10

Observation locale

Space

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 2009 at CoRoT (4 shown).

CoRoT-7 c · Sub-Neptune CoRoT-9 b · Gas Giant CoRoT-6 b · Gas Giant CoRoT-7 b · Super-Earth

Host System: CoRoT-5

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,100 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

6.90 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.186 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.000 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.25

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.190 dex

Stellar density

1.010 g/cm³

Rotational v·sin i

1.00 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[M/H]

Distance

882.47 parsec

Light-years 2,878.24 ly

V-band magnitude

14.04 mag

Voyager-speed travel 50,757,678 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.105 mas

Total Proper Motion

8.829 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-3.07 mas/yr

PM Declination

-8.28 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.196 · y = 0.981 · z = 0.014

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 101.27724° · Dec 0.81522°

Galactic ℓ, b

211.485° · -1.036°

Ecliptic λ, β

102.184° · -22.148°

HTM-20 index

102249443