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 Dec 29 2006, 04:51 PM
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Member  Group: Members Posts: 293 Joined: 29-August 06 From: Columbia, MD Member No.: 1083  |
How long until observations begin and data begins to flow from COROT?
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Dec 31 2006, 07:12 AM
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We are talking about ESA here, If we are lucky maybe Summer 07.
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Dec 31 2006, 08:04 AM
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QUOTE (Decepticon @ Dec 31 2006, 07:12 AM)  We are talking about ESA here, If we are lucky maybe Summer 07. And a data release in early 2022, after the initial heavily-processed 'gee-whiz we wos firstest' PR shots. Not that I'm cynical, oh no. Pencil it into your workflow after MSL, OK? Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Jan 4 2007, 11:27 AM
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QUOTE (Drkskywxlt @ Dec 29 2006, 06:51 PM) How long until observations begin and data begins to flow from COROT? There is an article in this week’s issue of Nature about COROT (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v445/n7123/full/445010a.html) mentioning that „after a couple of months of calibration, COROT will make observations for 150 days, then turn 180° and observe for another 150 days“ and that „the first results from COROT should be in and analysed by mid-2007, with ground-based follow-up experiments done by the end of the year“. Let’s hope that the cynics won’t be right after all, because in 2022 NASA’s Terrestrial Planet Finders coronagraph and interferometer should be up in the sky (if it’s not deferred indefinitely again) – and this is going to be tough competition for CNES and ESA (not talking about Darwin and Kepler and the sadly delayed Space Interferomentry Mission). |
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Jan 4 2007, 03:34 PM
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QUOTE (Thorsten @ Jan 4 2007, 11:27 AM) There is an article in this week’s issue of Nature about COROT You have a good informative page at CNES site about Corot -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Jan 4 2007, 08:49 PM
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Looks like the SL4 re-entered over the western US this morning; by all accounts, it was quite a show!:)
http://www.krdotv.com/story.cfm?nav=news&storyID=1898 -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Jan 20 2007, 08:16 PM
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I just noticed that while the main Corot news page is in typical ESA style not being updated with any frequency, there is a page here maintained by the extrasolar planet encyclopedia people which has more frequent news. Yesterday they posted the first light image from the spacecraft.
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Jan 31 2007, 03:30 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
The spirit among the COROT team is very high as the scientific observations will start in the following days...
-------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Feb 6 2007, 06:28 PM
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COROT enters fine-pointing mode
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Feb 6 2007, 09:37 PM
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First scientific observations for Corot (in French)
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Feb 7 2007, 09:56 AM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
Rakhir, I've got the feeling that were just in the beggining of a great mission...
-------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Feb 7 2007, 03:33 PM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
Malcolm Fridlund gives a quicky one about the two latest releases.
"In a month you get 86400 frames like the one shown and then you can interpret your data." Now I'm starting to understand how that baby works... 
-------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Feb 8 2007, 04:25 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 249 Joined: 11-June 05 From: Finland (62°14′N 25°44′E) Member No.: 408 |
QUOTE (Decepticon @ Dec 31 2006, 09:12 AM) We are talking about ESA here, If we are lucky maybe Summer 07. COROT is a CNES mission, ESA is only one partner. I don't think they will publish any results that soon: finding transiting planets is not easy. First you have to find the stars that exhibit multiple planet-like transits. That is not enough, since several phenomena (small red dwarfs, brown dwarfs, grazing eclipses or blends by normal stars) can produce similar curves. And eliminating them takes time. Most straightforward method would be to measure radial velocities, but many of the candidates are probably too dim for that. -------------------- The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
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Feb 8 2007, 04:28 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 249 Joined: 11-June 05 From: Finland (62°14′N 25°44′E) Member No.: 408 |
QUOTE (Rakhir @ Feb 6 2007, 11:37 PM) First scientific observations for Corot (in French) Finally an off-focus image that doesn't cause despair.
-------------------- The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
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