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CoRoT: Harvest of the exoplanet program

Guillot, Tristan; Cabrera, Juan; Deeg, Hans J. +6 more

One of the objectives of the CoRoT mission is the search for transiting extrasolar planets using high-precision photometry, and the accurate characterization of their fundamental parameters. The CoRoT satellite consecutively observes crowded stellar fields since February 2007, in high-cadence precise photometry; periodic eclipses are detected and …

Could we identify hot ocean-planets with CoRoT, Kepler and Doppler velocimetry?

Sotin, C.; Barge, P.; Bordé, P. +16 more

Planets less massive than about 10 M are expected to have no massive H-He atmosphere and a cometary composition (∼50% rocks, 50% water, by mass) provided they formed beyond the snowline of protoplanetary disks. Due to inward migration, such planets could be found at any distance between their formation site and the star. If migration stops within …