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COROT – A Unique Database for Low Amplitude Variability Between 1 Minute and 150 Days

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

E. Michel ,
A. Baglin ,
P. Barge ,
C. Catala ,
M. Auvergne ,
W. W. Weiss ,
T. Appourchaux ,
R. Garrido  and
the COROT Team
E. Michel
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Paris, DASGAL, UMR CNRS 8633, Meudon, France
A. Baglin
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Paris, DESPA, URA CNRS 264, Meudon, France
P. Barge
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d’Astronomie Spatiale, CNRS, Marseille, France
C. Catala
Affiliation:
Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, LAT, UMR 5572, Toulouse, France
M. Auvergne
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Paris, DASGAL, UMR CNRS 8633, Meudon, France
W. W. Weiss
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy, Vienna University, Wien, Austria
T. Appourchaux
Affiliation:
ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, the Netherlands
R. Garrido
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, Granada, Spain

Abstract

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COROT is a high precision wide field photometry experiment from space, funded in the framework of the CNES “Petites Missions” program (the PI is A. Baglin). It will observe approximately 30000 objects with mV between 4.5 and 15.5 over long observational periods (up to 150 d), with a time sampling between 1 s and 16 min, a precision of the order of 10−4 per measurement. The scientific objectives are stellar seismology and the search for telluric planets. The instrument and the core program have already been presented in several places. We here focus on a description of the characteristics of the data to be obtained with COROT. The large amount of high quality data collected by COROT will constitute rich material for several research programs beyond the core program as already defined (http://www.astrsp-mrs.fr/www/corot.html). A call for proposal of additional programs will be made during Northern Spring 2000.

Type
Part 1. Large Scale Surveys: Present and Future
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 176: The Impact of Large-Scale Surveys on Pulsating Star Research , 2000 , pp. 69 - 70
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000