Journal article

### Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission XVII. The hot Jupiter CoRoT-17b: a very old planet

Abstract:

We report on the discovery of a hot Jupiter-type exoplanet, CoRoT-17b, detected by the CoRoT satellite. It has a mass of $2.43\pm0.30$\Mjup and a radius of $1.02\pm0.07$\Rjup, while its mean density is $2.82\pm0.38$ g/cm$^3$. CoRoT-17b is in a circular orbit with a period of $3.7681\pm0.0003$ days. The host star is an old ($10.7\pm1.0$ Gyr) main-sequence star, which makes it an intriguing object for planetary evolution studies. The planet's internal composition is not well constrained and can...

Publication status:
Published

### Access Document

Publisher copy:
10.1051/0004-6361/201117009

### Authors

Journal:
A
Volume:
531
Pages:
A41
Publication date:
2011-06-22
DOI:
EISSN:
1432-0746
ISSN:
0004-6361
Source identifiers:
162256
Language:
English
Keywords:
Pubs id:
pubs:162256
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uuid:1d5cff45-cbfc-45ba-be87-72105783f2a3
Local pid:
pubs:162256
Deposit date:
2012-12-19