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Article Dans Une Revue Icarus Année : 2013

CoRoT: Harvest of the exoplanet program

Magali Deleuil
Tristan Guillot
Pascal Borde
  • Fonction : Auteur
Francois Bouchy
Juan Cabrera
Szilard Csizmadia
  • Fonction : Auteur
Hans J. Deeg
  • Fonction : Auteur
Corot Exoplanet Sci Team
  • Fonction : Auteur

Résumé

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. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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hal-01439514 , version 1 (18-01-2017)

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Claire Moutou, Magali Deleuil, Tristan Guillot, Annie Baglin, Pascal Borde, et al.. CoRoT: Harvest of the exoplanet program. Icarus, 2013, 226 (2), pp.1625--1634. ⟨10.1016/j.icarus.2013.03.022⟩. ⟨hal-01439514⟩
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