COROT planets |
COROT planets |
Jun 28 2013, 01:01 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 124 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 291 |
Not sure if this is the right thread, but don't see anything more recent...
Corot mission is officially over - there was a computer failure last November which the probe never recovered from. The official statement came out this week that it will be sent into the atmosphere: http://smsc.cnes.fr/COROT/GP_actualite.htm#012013 |
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Jun 28 2013, 07:34 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2492 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150 |
RIP Corot!
QUOTE CoRoT has made many “premières” in both planet detection and stellar microvariability. For instance CoRoT has discovered the first member of the new class of planets: Super-Earths orbiting very close to their parent star. It has also discovered the first two brown dwarfs at short orbital period and has provided the measure of their radii The precise characterization of Solar Like Oscillations in stars has been achieved for the first time. Oscillation modes have been measured down to the ppm (part-per-million) level for stars with intermediate (~2Msun) to very high (~45 Msun) mass, revealing phenomena hitherto out of reach. Seismology of Red Giants really started with CoRoT and is now one of the most promising and active fields with applications in Galactic evolution. Beyond oscillations, the CoRoT data revealed the signature of various phenomena which are now studied actively: granulation, activity, mapping of inhomogeneities on stellar surfaces. Source: Proposal for a 3 years extension for CoRoT mission -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -
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