COROT planets |
COROT planets |
May 3 2007, 02:20 PM
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6611557.stm
is reporting that Corot has found its first planet. I can't find an arxiv paper about this, or even a press release, but there are many here better at squirreling out data releases than me. 1.3Mj, 1.8Rj so it's a very inflated planet, 1.5-day orbit around a 'star quite similar to the Sun' might account for that. In the Monoceros field (Corot is now pointing at the Scutum/Aquila field). |
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Nov 6 2007, 08:01 PM
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Nov 7 2007, 04:21 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
boring? never. You didn't take me seriously didn't you?... Fridlund's teaser-update, a writing session, from where some papers should come out, will take place within two weeks, 20-21 Nov, in Paris...anyone around with sneaking abilities? -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
Edgar Alan Poe |
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Nov 8 2007, 03:48 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 29-December 05 From: NE Oh, USA Member No.: 627 |
Paris...anyone around with sneaking abilities? My Mission Impossible days are over..... But Paris sure sounds nice to this USA midwesterner!!!! I am, of course, hoping for big revelations, but seriously think that any report as big as terrestrial radii planets will probably have to wait for good solid RV mass determinatons... and this might be too soon for that. At the least, they can report that planet transit probables are VERY common... which bodes well. Also believe there wil be a strong desire, given what they find, to trump KEPLER. Noticed the audio press conference regarding 55Cancri f did not even mention COROT, but KEPLER was mentioned several times. I do not care WHO finds WHAT, as long as the exploration continues. viva la planete!!!!!! Craig |
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Nov 8 2007, 12:05 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
At the least, they can report that planet transit probables are VERY common... which bodes well. Also believe there wil be a strong desire, given what they find, to trump KEPLER. Noticed the audio press conference regarding 55Cancri f did not even mention COROT, but KEPLER was mentioned several times. I do not care WHO finds WHAT, as long as the exploration continues. Debra Fischer visited the blog and her hopes, by what it seems to me, are not so on KEPLER but on JWST, and she mentioned COROT... She also makes reference to her wish of seing a spaceborn astrometry mission but the costs man...the costs?! Fischer hopes that resources can be pooled across the world, working together is the way she sees things happening... That sounds good...EVERYONE finding EVERYTHING... -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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