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Table 3

Parameters of the fit to the transit light curve of CoRoT-29b with a model accounting for gravity darkening.

Fitted parameters Value and uncertainty

J 2 0.028 ± 0.019
Gravity darkening exponent β 0.89 ± 0.25
k = Rp/Rs 0.1028 ± 0.0043
is [°]a 46 ± 19
Ωs [°]b 256 ± 40
ip [°] 87.3 ± 2.7
u + 0.62 ± 0.15
u 0.58 ± 0.14
T0 [s] − 200 ± 31
Tpole [K] 5 341 ± 266
a/R s,eq 9.22 ± 0.19
Contamination factor [%] 54 ± 4
Derived parameters

f = Rs,pole/Rs,eq 0.94 ± 0.02
w = Porb/Prot 0.26 ± 0.06
χ 2 71
c 1.4
BIC 120

Notes.

(a)

The obliquity of the star, as defined in Barnes (2009), is ϕ = 90 − is = 47°.

(b)

The sky projected angle of the stellar spin axis; λ in the notation of Fabrycky & Winn (2009).

(c)

Sixty-two fitted points and 12 free parameters.

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