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Among the notable discoveries was COROT-7b, discovered in 2009 which became the first exoplanet shown to have a rock or metal-dominated composition.
A search for a binary companion star using Lucky imaging observations with the Danish 1.54 m telescope at La Silla Observatory in Chile did not find any candidate companion stars.
The discovery of the planet was announced in February 2009, during the First Corot Symposium. It was discovered during the follow-up started in order to confirm the existence of COROT-7b, a super-Earth uncovered by the COROT mission. However, unlike COROT-7b, it was not detected by the transit method from the COROT satellite, but only by the radial velocity method using HARPS from La Silla Observatory, Chile. A posteriori search of transits of COROT-7c in the lightcurve of the star COROT-7 yielded a negative result, confirming the planet is not transiting. As a consequence no radius measurement is available, and no density and structure models of the planet can be established.
COROT-4b (formerly known as COROT-Exo-4b) is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star COROT-4. It is probably in synchronous orbit with stellar rotation. It was discovered by the French COROT mission in 2008.
Most confirmed extrasolar planets have been found using space-based telescopes (as of 01/2015). Many of the detection methods can work more effectively with space-based telescopes that avoid atmospheric haze and turbulence. COROT (2007-2012) and Kepler were space missions dedicated to searching for extrasolar planets using transits. COROT discovered about 30 new exoplanets. 
Kepler (2009-2013) and K2 (2013- ) have discovered over 2000 verified exoplanets. Hubble Space Telescope and MOST have also found or confirmed a few planets. The infrared Spitzer Space Telescope has been used to detect transits of extrasolar planets, as well as occultations of the planets by their host star and phase curves.
COROT-7b was found by observing its parent star's periodic decrease in apparent magnitude caused by the planet's transit in front of the star as seen from Earth. Measuring this dip in brightness, together with a size estimate for the star, allows one to calculate the planet's size. (See Transit method.) The space mission COROT observed the star COROT-7, in the stellar field LRa01, from 15 October 2007 to 3 March 2008. During this period, 153 periodic transit signals of 1.3 h duration with a depth of 3.4 × 10 were registered. After 40 days of data acquisition, the Alarm mode pipeline algorithm detected the shallow signal of COROT-7b, starting the follow-up observations from the ground to get a confirmation of the planetary nature of the transiting object.
Corot received a scholarship to study at the Lycée Pierre-Corneille in Rouen,[4] but left after having scholastic difficulties and entered a boarding school. He "was not a brilliant student, and throughout his entire school career he did not get a single nomination for a prize, not even for the drawing classes."[3] Unlike many masters who demonstrated early talent and inclinations toward art, before 1815 Corot showed no such interest. During those years he lived with the Sennegon family, whose patriarch was a friend of Corot's father and who spent much time with young Corot on nature walks. It was in this region that Corot made his first paintings after nature.[5] At nineteen, Corot was a "big child, shy and awkward. He blushed when spoken to. Before the beautiful ladies who frequented his mother's salon, he was embarrassed and fled like a wild thing... Emotionally, he was an affectionate and well-behaved son, who adored his mother and trembled when his father spoke."[6] When Corot's parents moved into a new residence in 1817, the 21-year-old Corot moved into the dormer-windowed room on the third floor, which became his first studio as well.[7]
In May 2008, two new exoplanets of Jupiter size, COROT-4b and COROT-5b, as well as an unknown massive celestial object, COROT-3b, were announced by ESA.
CoRoT (French: Co</b>nvection, Ro</b>tation et T</b>ransits planétaires; English: Convection, Rotation and planetary Transits) was a space observatory mission which operated from 2006 to 2013. The mission's two objectives were to search for extrasolar planets with short orbital periods, particularly those of large terrestrial size, and to perform asteroseismology by measuring solar-like oscillations in stars.[3] The mission was led by the French Space Agency (CNES) in conjunction with the European Space Agency (ESA) and other international partners.
– More than 600 works by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot at the WebMuseum. Rehs Galleries' exhibition of works by Jean B.C. Corot. at Find a Grave
Though this school was on the decline, it still held sway in the Salon, the foremost art exhibition in France attended by thousands at each event. Corot later stated, "I made my first landscape from nature...under the eye of this painter, whose only advice was to render with the greatest scrupulousness everything I saw before me. The lesson worked; since then I have always treasured precision."[12] After Michallon's early death in 1822, Corot studied with Michallon's teacher, Jean-Victor Bertin, among the best known Neoclassic landscape painters in France, who had Corot draw copies of lithographs of botanical subjects to learn precise organic forms. Though holding Neoclassicists in the highest regard, Corot did not limit his training to their tradition of allegory set in imagined nature. His notebooks reveal precise renderings of tree trunks, rocks, and plants which show the influence of Northern realism. Throughout his career, Corot demonstrated an inclination to apply both traditions in his work, sometimes combining the two.[13]
StarConstellationRight ascensionDeclinationApp. mag.Distance (ly)Spectral typePlanetMass (MJ)Radius (RJ)Orbital period (d)Semi-major axis (AU)Orbital eccentricityInclination (°)Discovery yearRefCOROT-1Monoceros06h48m19s−03°06′08″13.61,560G0Vb1.031.491.50895570.0254085.12007[101]COROT-2Aquila19h27m07s+01°23′02″12.57930G7Vb3.311.4651.74299640.0281087.842007[102]COROT-3Aquila19h28m13.265s+00°07′18.62″13.32,200F3Vb21.661.014.256800.057085.92008[103]COROT-4Monoceros06h48m47s−00°40′22″13.7F0Vb0.721.199.202050.0900902008[104]COROT-5Monoceros06h45mm07ss+00°48′55″141,304F9Vb0.4591.284.03840.049470.0985.832008[105]COROT-6Ophiuchus18h44m17.42s+06°39′47.95″13.9F5Vb3.31.168.890.0855< 0.189.072009[106]COROT-7Monoceros06h43m49.0s−01°03′46.0″11.668489G9Vb0.01510.1500.8535850.0172080.12009[107]COROT-8Aquila19h26m21s+01°25′36″14.81,239K1Vb0.220.576.212290.063088.42010[108]COROT-9Serpens18h43m09s+06°12′15″13.71,500G3Vb0.841.0595.27380.4070.11>89.92010[109]COROT-10Aquila19h24m15s+00°44 ′46″15.221,125K1Vb2.750.9713.24060.10550.5388.552010[110]COROT-11Serpens18h42m45s+05°56′16″12.941,826F6Vb2.331.432.994330.0436083.172010[111]COROT-12Monoceros06h43m04s−01°17′47″15.523,750G2Vb0.9171.442.8280420.040160.0785.482010[112]COROT-13Monoceros06h50m53s−05°05′11″15.044,272G0Vb1.3080.8854.035190.051088.022010[113]COROT-14Monoceros06h53m42s−05°32′10″16.034,370F9Vb7.581.091.512150.027079.62010[114]COROT-16Scutum18h34m06s−06°00′09″15.632,740G5Vb0.5351.175.35230.06180.3385.012011[115]COROT-17Scutum18h34m47s−06°36′44 ″15.463,001G2Vb2.431.023.7681250.0461088.342011[116]COROT-18Monoceros06h32m41s−00°01′54″14.992,838G9b3.471.311.90006930.0295<0.0886.52011[117]COROT-19Monoceros06h28m08s−00°01′01″14.782,510F9Vb1.111.453.897130.05180.04787.612011[118]COROT-20Monoceros06h30m53s+00°13′37″14.664,012G2Vb4.240.849.240.09020.56288.212011[119]COROT-21Monoceros16F8IVb2.261.302.724740.0417086.82,011[120]COROT-22Serpens18h42m40s+06°13′08″11.932,052G0IVb< 0.150.529.75660.094< 0.689.42011COROT-23Serpens18h39m08s+04°21′28″15.631,956G0Vb2.81.053.63140.04770.1685.72011[121]COROT-24Monoceros06h47m41s−03°43′09″4,413b< 0.10.2365.11342011COROT-24Monoceros06h47m41s−03°43′09″4,413c0.1730.3811.7492011COROT-25bCOROT-26bCOROT-274413G2b10.39±0.551.01±0.043.580.048<0.0652013[122][123]COROT-28b0.484±0.0870.9550±0.0660COROT-29bCOROT-3015.65G3Vb0.84 (± 0.34)1.02 (± 0.08)9.06005 (± 0.00024)0.084 (± 0.001)0.007 (+0.031 -0.007)90.0 (± 0.56)2017[124]COROT-3115.7G2IVb2.84 (± 0.22)1.46 (± 0.3)4.62941 (± 0.00075)1.46 (± 0.3)0.02 (+0.16 -0.02)83.2 (± 2.3)2017[125]COROT-33b
Interesting transiting planets could be further followed-up with the infrared Spitzer Space Telescope, to give an independent confirmation at a different wavelength and possibly detect reflected light from the planet or the atmospheric compositions. COROT-7b and COROT-9b have already been observed by Spitzer.
Corot-1b, the first planet detected by CoRoT is a hot Jupiter. By further analysis, COROT-1b became the first exoplanets to have its secondary eclipse detected in the optical,[98] thanks to the high precision lightcurve delivered by CoRoT. Corot-3b, with a mass of 22 MJup, it appears to be "something between a brown dwarf and a planet." According to the definition of planet proposed by the owners of the exoplanet.eu database[99] three years later, COROT-3b, being less massive than 25 Jupiter masses, is classified as an exoplanet. In an August 2010 paper, COROT detected the ellipsoidal and the relativistic beaming effects in the COROT-3 lightcurve.[100] Corot-7b, with a radius of 1.7 REarth and a mass of 7.3 MEarth, was the first confirmed rocky planet, with a density and composition which are close to those of the Earth. Its orbital period (i.e. its local year) is very short since it lasts just 20.5 h; because the planet is very close to its star (an almost solar type star), its orbit is a mere 6 stellar radii. As the planet must be in synchronous rotation with its orbital motion because of the huge tidal forces it undergoes, it always presents the same hemisphere to the star: as a consequence, the two hemispheres, the enlightened and the dark, exhibit an extreme contrast in temperature (2200K vs 50K) and a huge ocean of lava must occupy a large part of the hot side. A continent of water and nitrogen dioxide ices is probably occupying the dark side. Corot-7b was also the first case of a system discovered by CoRoT, with two super-Earths, one in transit the other not; radial velocity measurements have indeed led to the discovery of CoRoT-7c, a planet of 8.4 MEarth and a period of 3.79 days. A third planet is even suspected. Corot-8b, a planet of the same class as Neptune, with a mass of 0.22 MJup; Corot-9b, the first planet that has earned the epithet of a temperate planet. With 80% of Jupiter mass, and an orbit similar to the Mercury one, this is the first transiting temperate planet found known to be similar to those within the Solar System. At the time of the discovery, it was the second longest period exoplanet found in transit, after HD80606 b. Corot-11b and CoRoT-2b, two inflated planets, with radius 1.4 and 1.5 RJup respectively: the theory does not yet provide a consistent model for such objects; Corot-15b, a bona fide brown dwarf in orbit; Corot-10b, CoRoT-16b, CoRoT-20b, CoRoT-23b, four hot Jupiters which are on an eccentric orbits, despite circularization is theoretically predicted for such small orbits: this is a clear constraint on Qp, the parameter that quantifies the energy dissipation by tidal forces; Corot-22b, is notable for its small size, having less than half the mass of Saturn. Corot-24b and c the second planetary system discovered by CoRoT, with two small planets of 0.10 and 0.17 MJup. The two planets are of Neptune size, and orbit the same star and represented the first multiple transiting system detected by CoRoT.
In June 2011, during the Second CoRoT Symposium, the probe added ten new objects to the Exoplanet catalogue:[96] COROT-16b, COROT-17b, COROT-18b, COROT-19b, COROT-20b, COROT-21b, COROT-22b, COROT-23b, COROT-24b, COROT-24c.
COROT-6b (previously named COROT-Exo-6b) is an exoplanet that was reportedly discovered by the COROT mission team on February 2, 2009 orbiting the F type star COROT-6. It is located in the Ophiuchus constellation.
An independent validation of COROT-7b as a planet is supplied by follow-up performed with the space based Spitzer telescope. Its observations confirmed the transits of the planet, with the same depth, at different wavelengths than the ones observed by COROT. The data then allows to validate COROT-7b as a bona-fide planet with a very high degree of confidence, independently from the noisy radial velocity data.
COROT-1b (previously named COROT-Exo-1b) is an transiting extrasolar planet approximately 2,630 light-years away in the constellation of Monoceros. The planet was discovered orbiting the yellow dwarf star COROT-1 in May 2007. The planet was the first discovery by the French-led COROT Mission.
The star is orbited by one known extrasolar planet, designated COROT-4b.It was catalogued as part of the COROT mission to find transiting planets, when a planet was spotted using the transit method.
COROT-5b (previously named COROT-Exo-5b) is an extrasolar planet orbiting the F type star COROT-5. It was first reported by the COROT mission team in 2008 using a transit method.
This planet has been confirmed by a Doppler follow-up study.
CoRoT-13b is a transiting exoplanet found by the CoRoT space telescope on 12 July 2010.
The star is reported to be orbited by the super-Earth extrasolar planets COROT-7b and COROT-7c, both discovered in 2009. The existence of a possible third planet COROT-7d, detected in a published study, remains unconfirmed. The discovery of the inner planet was made using the astronomical transit method by the COROT program. CoRoT-7b is notable for its small size.
A last study by Ferraz-Mello "et al." improved the approach used in the discovery paper, finding that it downsized the amplitude of the planets' induced radial velocities. It reports for COROT-7b a heavier mass of 8 Earth masses, in agreement with the second paper published by the COROT team. Thus, CoRoT-7b may be rocky with a large iron core, with an internal structure more like Mercury than Earth.
In June 2010 the CoRoT team announced[93] six new planets, COROT-8b, COROT-10b, COROT-11b, COROT-12b, COROT-13b, COROT-14b, and a brown dwarf, COROT-15b.[94] All the planets announced are Jupiter sized, except COROT-8b, which appears to be somewhat between Saturn and Neptune. The probe was also able to tentatively detect the reflected light at optical wavelengths of HD46375 b, a non-transiting planet.[95]
In the 1860s, Corot was still mixing peasant figures with mythological ones, mixing Neoclassicism with Realism, causing one critic to lament, "If M. Corot would kill, once and for all, the nymphs of his woods and replace them with peasants, I should like him beyond measure."[43] In reality, in later life his human figures did increase and the nymphs did decrease, but even the human figures were often set in idyllic reveries.