VLT transit and occultation photometry for the bloated planet CoRoT-1b

Gillon, M.; Demory, B.-O.; Triaud, A. H. M. J.; Barman, T.; Hebb, L.; Montalbán, J.; Maxted, P. F. L.; Queloz, D.; Deleuil, M.; Magain, P. (2009). VLT transit and occultation photometry for the bloated planet CoRoT-1b. Astronomy and astrophysics, 506(1), pp. 359-367. EDP Sciences 10.1051/0004-6361/200912231

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We present VLT eclipse photometry for the giant planet CoRoT-1b. We observed a transit in the R-band filter and an occultation in a narrow filter centered on 2.09 μm. Our analysis of this new photometry and published radial velocities, in combination with stellar-evolutionary modeling, leads to a planetary mass and radius of 1.07+0.13-0.18 MJup and 1.45+0.07-0.13 RJup, confirming the very low density previously deduced from CoRoT photometry. The large occultation depth that we measure at 2.09 μm (0.278 +0.043-0.066%) is consistent with thermal emission and is better reproduced by an atmospheric model with no redistribution of the absorbed stellar flux to the night side of the planet.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

10 Strategic Research Centers > Center for Space and Habitability (CSH)

UniBE Contributor:

Demory, Brice-Olivier Denys

Subjects:

500 Science > 520 Astronomy

ISSN:

0004-6361

Publisher:

EDP Sciences

Language:

English

Submitter:

Brice-Olivier Denys Demory

Date Deposited:

05 Apr 2022 14:02

Last Modified:

02 Mar 2023 23:34

Publisher DOI:

10.1051/0004-6361/200912231

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/153336

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/153336

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