Discovery Method
Transit
Consistent across records
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CoRoT-2 b
Host star CoRoT-2 • 16.43 R⊕ • 1.74 d orbit
Records
13
archive rows
Discovery
2008
Transit
Radius
16.43 R⊕
default parameter set
Mass
1102.8 M⊕
default parameter set
CoRoT-2
temperature unconstrained
Canonical Summary
Adopted planet values from the default parameter set
Values come from the archive's default parameter set. Missing values stay missing. Ranges and counts describe all source rows.
Selected source: Gillon et al. 2010
Host Star
CoRoT-2
Stable across source rows
Discovery Year
2008
Stable across source rows
Orbital Period
1.74 day
1.74 to 1.74
Semi-Major Axis
0.03 au
0.03 to 0.03
Radius
16.43 Rearth
15.85 to 16.92
Mass
1102.8 Mearth
1048.8 to 1150.5
Density
1.47 g/cm**3
1.30 to 1.55
Scale Comparison
Radius against familiar reference worlds
Current adopted radius: 16.43 R⊕ • circles scaled linearly by radius
Earth
1.0 R⊕ baseline
CoRoT-2 b
16.43 R⊕
Jupiter
11.2 R⊕ reference
Provenance
Underlying measurements and references
Evidence Summary
Rows
13
Refs
13
Methods
1
Discoverystable
Facilitystable
Periodstable
Radiusdisputed
Massdisputed
Eq. Tempdisputed
| Year | Method | Facility | Telescope | Period | Radius | Mass | Eq. Temp | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Transit | CoRoT | 0.27 m CoRoT Telescope | 1.74 day | 16.37 Rearth | 1134.7 Mearth | 1521 K | Southworth 2012 |
| 2008 | Transit | CoRoT | 0.27 m CoRoT Telescope | 1.74 day | 16.48 Rearth | 1150.5 Mearth | 1548 K | Southworth 2011 |
| 2008 | Transit | CoRoT | 0.27 m CoRoT Telescope | 1.74 day | 16.43 Rearth | 1102.8 Mearth | — | Gillon et al. 2010 |
| 2008 | Transit | CoRoT | 0.27 m CoRoT Telescope | 1.74 day | 16.42 Rearth | 1052.0 Mearth | — | Alonso et al. 2008 |
| 2008 | Transit | CoRoT | 0.27 m CoRoT Telescope | 1.74 day | — | — | — | Baluev et al. 2015 |
| 2008 | Transit | CoRoT | 0.27 m CoRoT Telescope | 1.74 day | 16.53 Rearth | — | — | Bruno et al. 2016 |
| 2008 | Transit | CoRoT | 0.27 m CoRoT Telescope | 1.74 day | 16.43 Rearth | 1048.8 Mearth | — | Bonomo et al. 2017 |
| 2008 | Transit | CoRoT | 0.27 m CoRoT Telescope | 1.74 day | 15.85 Rearth | 1052.0 Mearth | 1535 K | Öztürk & Erdem 2019 |
| 2008 | Transit | CoRoT | 0.27 m CoRoT Telescope | 1.74 day | — | — | — | Kokori et al. 2022 |
| 2008 | Transit | CoRoT | 0.27 m CoRoT Telescope | 1.74 day | 16.92 Rearth | — | 1409.5 K | ExoFOP |
| 2008 | Transit | CoRoT | 0.27 m CoRoT Telescope | 1.74 day | — | — | — | Ivshina & Winn 2022 |
| 2008 | Transit | CoRoT | 0.27 m CoRoT Telescope | 1.74 day | — | — | — | Kokori et al. 2023 |
| 2008 | Transit | CoRoT | 0.27 m CoRoT Telescope | 1.74 day | — | — | — | Sodickson & Grunblatt 2025 |