# Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission - XI. CoRoT-8b: a hot and dense sub-Saturn around a K1 dwarf

@article{Borde2010TransitingEF,
title={Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission - XI. CoRoT-8b: a hot and dense sub-Saturn around a K1 dwarf},
author={P. Bord'e and François Bouchy and Magali Deleuil and Juan Cabrera and Laurent Jorda and Christophe Lovis and Sz. Csizmadia and Suzanne Aigrain and J. M. Almenara and Roi Alonso and Michel Auvergne and Annie Baglin and Pierre Barge and W. Benz and Aldo S. Bonomo and Hans Bruntt and Ludmila Carone and Stefania Carpano and Hans J. Deeg and Rudolf Dvorak and Anders Erikson and Sylvio Ferraz-Mello and Malcolm Fridlund and Davide Gandolfi and J. C. Gazzano and Micha{\"e}l Gillon and E. W. Guenther and Tristan Guillot and Pascal Guterman and A. P. Hatzes and Mathieu Havel and Guillaume H'ebrard and Helmut Lammer and Alain L'eger and Michel Mayor and Tsevi Mazeh and Claire Moutou and Martin Patzold and Francesco A. Pepe and Marc Ollivier and Didier Queloz and Heike Rauer and Daniel Rouan and Benjamin Samuel and Alexandre Santerne and J.Schneider and Brandon Tingley and St{\'e}phane Udry and Joerg Weingrill and G{\"u}nther Wuchterl},
journal={Astronomy and Astrophysics},
year={2010},
volume={520},
pages={66}
}
Aims. We report the discovery of CoRoT-8b, a dense small Saturn-class exoplanet that orbits a K1 dwarf in 6.2 days, and we derive its orbital parameters, mass, and radius. Methods. We analyzed two complementary data sets: the photometric transit curve of CoRoT-8b as measured by CoRoT and the radial velocity curve of CoRoT-8 as measured by the HARPS spectrometer �� . Results. We find that CoRoT-8b is on a circular orbit with a semi-major axis of 0.063 ± 0.001 AU. It has a radius of 0.57 ± 0.02… Expand

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