Bibcode
Moutou, C.; Deleuil, Magali; Guillot, Tristan; Baglin, Annie; Bordé, Pascal; Bouchy, Francois; Cabrera, Juan; Csizmadia, Szilárd; Deeg, H. J.
Bibliographical reference
Icarus, Volume 226, Issue 2, p. 1625-1634.
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2013
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Description
One of the objectives of the CoRoT mission is the search for transiting
extrasolar planets using high-precision photometry, and the accurate
characterization of their fundamental parameters. The CoRoT satellite
consecutively observes crowded stellar fields since February 2007, in
high-cadence precise photometry; periodic eclipses are detected and
analyzed in the stellar light curves. Then complementary observations
using ground-based facilities allows establishing the nature of the
transiting body and its mass. CoRoT has acquired more than 163,000 light
curves and detected about 500 planet candidates. A fraction of them (5%)
are confirmed planets whose masses are independently measured. Main
highlights of the CoRoT discoveries are: (i) the variety of internal
structures in close-in giant planets, (ii) the characterization of the
first known transiting rocky planet, CoRoT-7b, and (iii) multiple
constraints on the formation, evolution, role of tides in planetary
systems.
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Helio and Astero-Seismology and Exoplanets Search
The principal objectives of this project are: 1) to study the structure and dynamics of the solar interior, 2) to extend this study to other stars, 3) to search for extrasolar planets using photometric methods (primarily by transits of their host stars) and their characterization (using radial velocity information) and 4) the study of the planetary
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