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Prospects of Variable Star Research by Future Space Missions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Laurent Eyer*
Affiliation:
Instituut voor Sterrenkunde, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200 B, B-3001 Leuven, België

Abstract

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ESA and NASA are studying projects having a tremendous return on variable star research. Other national space agencies are also studying or developing projects of smaller costs but with impressive returns. The projects range from global Galactic surveys like the ESA mission GAIA which will give photometric time series for about 1 billion stars, to detailed pulsation-mode studies like the CNES mission COROT which could reach a photometric precision lower than 1 ppm. The presentation will emphasize the future astrometric, asteroseismological and planet detection missions.

Type
Part 1. Large Scale Surveys: Present and Future
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000

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