COROT-15 b
Sign in to savethumb|CoRoT-15, as seen in SpaceEngine CoRoT-15 is an eclipsing binary star system about away in the constellation Monoceros, discovered by the CoRoT space telescope in 2010. It consists of an F7V star and an orbiting brown dwarf companion, which was one of the first transiting brown dwarfs to be discovered.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- BD?
- Coordinates
- RA 97.1159° · Dec 6.1862°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- brown dwarf
- Constellation
- Monoceros
- Radius
- 1.12
- Mass
- 63.4
- Orbital period
- 3.06036
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- right ascension
- 97.11591830
- declination
- 6.18624370
- apparent magnitude
- 15.124
- epoch
- J2000.0
- catalog code
- UCAC4 481-021097
- time of discovery or invention
- 2010-00-00
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.0
- discovery method
- transit method
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -4.7
- declination component of proper motion
- -3.4
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.045
- M sin i
- 63.3
- orbital inclination
- 86.7
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thumb|CoRoT-15, as seen in SpaceEngine CoRoT-15 is an eclipsing binary star system about away in the constellation Monoceros, discovered by the CoRoT space telescope in 2010. It consists of an F7V star and an orbiting brown dwarf companion, which was one of the first transiting brown dwarfs to be discovered.
thumb|CoRoT-15b, as seen in SpaceEngine
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