Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission^⋆

XVI. CoRoT-14b: an unusually dense very hot Jupiter

¹ Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, 38205 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
e-mail: btingley@iac.es
² Dpto. de Astrofísica, Universidad de La Laguna, 38206 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
³ McDonald Observatory, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, 78712 TX, USA
⁴ Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille, 38 rue Frédéric Joliot-Curie, 13388 Marseille Cedex 13, France
⁵ Observatoire de l’Université de Genève, 51 chemin des Maillettes, 1290 Sauverny, Switzerland
⁶ Wise Observatory, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
⁷ Department of Physics, Denys Wilkinson Building Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3RH, UK
⁸ LESIA, UMR 8109 CNRS, Observatoire de Paris, UPMC, Université Paris-Diderot, 5 place J. Janssen, 92195 Meudon, France
⁹ Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale, Université Paris-Sud 11 & CNRS (UMR 8617), Bât. 121, 91405 Orsay, France
¹⁰ Observatoire de Haute Provence, 04670 Saint Michel l’Observatoire, France
¹¹ Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, 98bis boulevard Arago, 75014 Paris, France
¹² University of Vienna, Institute of Astronomy, Türkenschanzstr. 17, 1180 Vienna, Austria
¹³ Institute of Planetary Research, German Aerospace Center, Rutherfordstrasse 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany
¹⁴ IAG, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
¹⁵ Research and Scientific Support Department, ESTEC/ESA, PO Box 299, 2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands
¹⁶ University of Liège, Allée du 6 août 17, Sart Tilman, Liège 1, Belgium
¹⁷ Thüringer Landessternwarte, Sternwarte 5, Tautenburg 5, 07778 Tautenburg, Germany
¹⁸ Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Science, Schmiedlstr. 6, 8042 Graz, Austria
¹⁹ School of Physics and Astronomy, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
²⁰ Rheinisches Institut für Umweltforschung an der Universität zu Köln, Aachener Strasse 209, 50931, Germany
²¹ Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Laboratoire Cassiopée, BP 4229, 06304 Nice Cedex 4, France
²² LUTH, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, 5 place Jules Janssen, 92195 Meudon, France
²³ Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, TU Berlin, Hardenbergstr. 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany
²⁴ School of Physics, University of Exeter, Stocker Road, Exeter EX4 4QL, UK
²⁵ Laboratoire d’Astronomie de Lille, Université de Lille 1, 1 impasse de l’Observatoire, 59000 Lille, France
²⁶ Institut de Mécanique Céleste et de Calcul des Ephémérides, UMR 8028 du CNRS, 77 Ave. Denfert-Rochereau, 75014 Paris, France

Received: 27 July 2010
Accepted: 13 December 2010

Abstract

In this paper, the CoRoT ExoplanetScience Team announces its 14th discovery. Herein, we discuss the observations and analyses that allowed us to derive the parameters of this system: a hot Jupiter with a mass of 7.6 ± 0.6 Jupiter masses orbiting a solar-type star (F9V) with a period of only 1.5 d, less than 5 stellar radii from its parent star. It is unusual for such a massive planet to have such a small orbit: only one other known higher mass exoplanet orbits with a shorter period.