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The COROT Mission and its Seismology Programme

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

A. Baglin
Affiliation:
DESPA, Observatoire de Paris, France
M. Auvergne
Affiliation:
DESPA, Observatoire de Paris, France
C. Catala
Affiliation:
DESPA, Observatoire de Paris, France
E. Michel
Affiliation:
DESPA, Observatoire de Paris, France
M.J. Goupil
Affiliation:
DESPA, Observatoire de Paris, France
R. Samadi
Affiliation:
DESPA, Observatoire de Paris, France
B. Popielsky
Affiliation:
DESPA, Observatoire de Paris, France

Abstract

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The COROT project, developed in the framework of the CNES small satellite programme with a wide European cooperation, will be launched in 2004. It is dedicated to seismology and the detection of telluric planets. It will perform relative broad-band photometry in visible light, during very long (150 days) observing runs in the same direction. Both programmes are working simultaneously on the same region of the sky. The seismology programme aims at mapping the HR diagram and study in detail 50 targets brighter than 9th magnitude. Another 50 will also be observed with a lower accuracy. The exoplanet programme will search for telluric planets slightly larger than the Earth, in the habitable zone and closer. Its data will also address many seismology problems.

Type
Part 6. Asteroseismology from Space and from the Ground
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2002

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