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Planetary transits from CoRoT—Europe and exoplanets

Fridlund, C. V. M.

CoRoT (COnvection, ROtation and planetary Transit) was launched successfully into a near-perfect orbit on 27 December 2006 and went through its verification phase until 2 April 2007 without incident. Indeed, this process went so well that scientific operations could commence on 2 February 2007. Under the management of the French space agency CNES …