CoRoTExo2b - Strange New World in Aquilla

Anthony's magnificint results invite salient questions.

That planet must be skimming the surface of that star.

Imagine Jupiter doing that to the sun?

Even a molten Earth could not stand that heat I think.

How is this possible?

Gents,

For some incredible reading, please see the article I cite on my webpage for this result and surrounding this unorthodox exoplanet.

I apologize for not being more thorough but I am imaging right now ... another exoplanet (what else?) ... TrES-4b in Hercules.

Anthony congratulations on an extremly difficult
project i can appreciate the amount of hard working
hours you have put in to attain such beautiful data.
I have just read the scientific publication you have
linked on your site and it is very intersting indeed.
I would love to see some follow up observations
and data.Are you doing any hunting of your own
and if so have you decided on a name if you find it

One year = 42 hrs?

How long would that make each day?

Not very long.

Staggering.

Can a planet like this possibly survive into adulthood?

One year = 42 hrs?

How long would that make each day?

Not very long.

Staggering.

Can a planet like this possibly survive into adulthood?

The length of day would depend on how fast the planet is rotating.
Mercury for example goes aroud the Sun in 88 days.
However, it takes 58 Earth days for Mercury to rotate on it's axis once.
However, to make matters even more complicated, if you were on the planet, the length of time between the Sun transiting the sky on two occassions is 176 Earth days (1 Solar Day on Mercury).
Ok, here Wikipedia probably explains it a bit better than me!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_planet
Yes, it is a complicated little planet!

Guys,

This is another doomed planet due to tidal effects and thanks to the close orbit. For anyone reading the article I mention above, the last paragraph in the paper is most interesting surrounding the degenerative orbit.

Anyway, this stuff with exoplanets is most fascinating.

Oh yeah, my transparency last night was highly variable and made a slight mess of my light curve. Yes, I did catch the light curve and its dip quite well but it is not as clean a curve as I would like.