The Status Of The Corot Space Mission

Details The Status Of The Corot Space Mission The Status Of The Corot Space Mission

Jan 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aas...21560102f&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #601.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 36, p.1119

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The CoRoT space mission has been in orbit for more than 1000 days. It has two main objectives - To search for small-radius traniting exoplanets and asteroseismology with a an unprecedented photometric precision. In both cases the goals have been fulfilled. During 2009, the planet CoRoT-7b have been published, an object with a radius of 1.7 Earth radii and a mass of 4.8 Earth masses leading to an average density of 5.5 g/cm-3. This object is thus the first planet similar to Mercury, Venus and the Earth found outside the Solar System.
Asteroseismological signatures of a number of objects have been presented, including those of a number of solar type stars.
The mission has just been extended for another three years of operations by the French space agency, CNES and their partners.
In this paper, we present a status report of the CoRoT mission, the plans for the future and describe in some detail the difficulties encountered during the first three years.

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