Starting the first transit survey from space with the CoRoT satellite

Bibcode
2007epsc.conf..562B
Barge, P.; Alonso, R.; Deleuil, M.; Moutou, C.; Deeg, H.; Erikson, A.; Hatzes, A.; Rauer, H.; Baglin, A.; Aigrain, S.
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European Planetary Science Congress 2007, Proceedings of a conference held 20-24 August, 2007 in Potsdam, Germany. Online at http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc2007, p.562

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2007
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10
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0
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Description
Successfully launched on 27 December 2006 CoRoT started, about one month later, the first photometric survey aimed at detecting planetary transits from space. After a brief description of the instrument and the mission profile, we will present results issued from a first analysis of the data. These preliminary results illustrate the onflight performances and the detection capabilities of CoRoT. The recent discovery of a hot Uranus around GJ436 suggests the existence of a new family of planets that CoRoT could easily detect. So, we should learn more on these hot Neptunes and the still hypothetical hot terrestrials in a near future.
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Non-refereed

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