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X-WR-CALNAME: IAC Talks: Open Astronomy Seminars
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CREATED:2013-03-15T10:30:00+00:00
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SUMMARY:The CoRoT exoplanet program: status & results 
DESCRIPTION:The CoRoT exoplanet program: status & results \nProf. Günther 
 Wuchterl\n\nThe CoRoT space mission aims at detecting planets with the tra
 nsit method. In operation for more than 6 years, the instrument has monito
 red a couple of ten fields located in two opposite directions the Galactic
  plane for durations up to about 160 days. Transits are detected in about 
 100 up to 300 light curves per run. The large majority of them are however
  pinpointed as transiting stellar systems thanks to the identification of 
 secondary eclipses or light curve modulation. The nature of the remaining 
 candidates is then assessed through a multi-step strategy of complementary
  observations. This approach has allowed the discovery of a variety of pla
 nets with a large range of properties, from the first Super-Earth, CoRoT-7
 b to CoRoT-9b, the first temperate hot Jupiter or even the two transiting 
 companions in the theoretical mass domain of brown dwarfs. We will review 
 the status of the mission and then present the CoRoT exoplanetary systems 
 and their properties.
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