CoRoT-32b, the youngest aligned exoplanet
1 : Landessternwarte Koenigstuhl - Zentrum fuer Astronomie der Universitaet Heidelberg
(LSW - ZAH - Heidelberg University)
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We announce the discovery of CoRoT-32b, the youngest aligned transiting planet ever found. CoRoT-32b is a Jupiter like planet in a 20-day orbit around an F4 dwarf. The host star is a member of the 25-million-year-old cluster NGC 2232. Using spectra from FIES@NOT, we find that the orbital plane of the planet is parallel to the equatorial plane of the star. CoRoT-32b is therefore a "Rosetta stone" discovery in exoplanetary science, as the measured alignment is basically equal to the primordial one, allowing us to strongly constrain - for the first time - the migration mechanism of a hot Jupiter.
| Subject : | : | oral |
| Topics | : | Session 2 - Extrasolar planets and planet systems |
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