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CoRoT: pioneer space mission for exoplanet transit search

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2007

Pierre Barge ,
Annie Baglin  and
Michel Auvergne
Pierre Barge
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de MarseilleLAM/OAMP - BP8 - 13376 - Marseille - Cedex 12 - France email: pierre.barge@oamp.fr
Annie Baglin
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Etudes Spatiales et d'Instrumentation en AstrophysiqueLESIA/OPM - 5 pl. J. Janssen, F-92195 Meudon, France
Michel Auvergne
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Etudes Spatiales et d'Instrumentation en AstrophysiqueLESIA/OPM - 5 pl. J. Janssen, F-92195 Meudon, France
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Abstract

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Led by the CNES space agency the CoRoT mission is born from a joint effort of France, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Germany, Spain and ESA. In orbit around the Earth, CoRoT started its first observations in February 2007 and is, now, regularly producing ten thousand light-curves with a very high accuracy. Performances are better than expected and some Hot Jupiters have already been detected in the raw data. Once the fully corrected data will be delivered, much smaller transits should be detected giving access to the hot Neptunes and the big Terrestrial planet families. We briefly describes the status of the mission, the inflight performance and the ground based program follow up strategy. We also present some preliminary results issued from a first analysis of the data.

Keywords

instrumentation: photometersplanets and satellites: formationstars: binaries: eclipsingstars: variables: delta Scutistars: variables: other
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 3 , Symposium S249: Exoplanets: Detection, Formation and Dynamics , October 2007 , pp. 3 - 16
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2008

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