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Title: Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission. XII. CoRoT-12b: a short-period low-density planet transiting a solar analog star
Authors: M. Gillon, A. Hatzes, Sz. Csizmadia, M. Fridlund, M. Deleuil, S. Aigrain, R. Alonso, M. Auvergne, A. Baglin, P. Barge, S. I. Barnes, A. S. Bonomo, P. Bordé, F. Bouchy, H. Bruntt, J. Cabrera, L. Carone, S. Carpano, W. D. Cochran, H. J. Deeg, R. Dvorak, M. Endl, A. Erikson, S. Ferraz-Mello, D. Gandolfi, J. C. Gazzano, E. Guenther, T. Guillot, M. Havel, G. Hébrard, L. Jorda, A. Léger, A. Llebaria, H. Lammer, C. Lovis, M. Mayor, T. Mazeh, J. Montalbán, C. Moutou, A. Ofir, M. Ollivier, M. Pätzold, F. Pepe, D. Queloz, H. Rauer, D. Rouan, B. Samuel, A. Santerne, J. Schneider, B. Tingley, S. Udry, J. Weingrill, G. Wuchterl

We report the discovery by the CoRoT satellite of a new transiting giant planet in a 2.83 days orbit about a V=15.5 solar analog star (M_* = 1.08 ± 0.08 M_sun, R_* = 1.1 ± 0.1 R_sun, T_eff = 5675 ± 80 K). This new planet, CoRoT-12b, has a mass of 0.92 ± 0.07 M_Jup and a radius of 1.44 ± 0.13 R_Jup. Its low density can be explained by standard models for irradiated planets.

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