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CoRoT-4

star in the constellation Monoceros

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ1523188 ↗
Source-derived summary

CoRoT-4 (formerly known as CoRoT-Exo-4) is a yellow-white dwarf main-sequence star in the constellation Monoceros.

Planetary system

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.

See also

List of extrasolar planets

References

External links

"CoRot-4". Exoplanets. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2009-04-28.

Editorial summary

“CoRoT-4” enters the record as star in the constellation Monoceros. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what CoRoT-4, star and constellation can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016, 2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around CoRoT-4, star and constellation.
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“CoRoT-4” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, CoRoT-4, star and constellation provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1523188. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2016 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “CoRoT-4” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.