CoRoT 2010 Events
2010 Events
Preliminary programme:
More information and registration at: http://ace.dfte.ufrn.br/4thCorot/4thCBW.html | ||
Thanks to the data from CNES satellite CoRoT (Convection, Rotations and planetary Transits), an international team, including French scientist from CEA, the Midi-Pyrénées Observatory and the Paris Observatory, detect in a star located at 100 light-years a magnetic activity cycle similar to the Sun one. This result, obtained for the first time by the stellar seismology technique, was publiched on august 27, 2010 in Science. More information on the INSU web site (in French) Publication in the review Science | ||
Today, the CoRoT team announces the discovery of 6 new planets with diverse characteristics and one brown dwarf. | ||
By combining 145 days of CNES' CoRoT satellite measurements to ESO's HARPS spectrograph measurements, an international team discovered a new planet - CoRoT-9b – with a probable surface temperature of about 100°C, which dimensions are near Jupiter's ones, turning around a star similar to the Sun in the Serpent constellation, at about 1,500 light-years from the Earth. CNES and the mission partners Press Release | ||
CNES, together with its national partners (CNRS and Observatoire de Paris) and international partners (Austria, Germany, Belgium, Brazil, ESA, Spain), has extended the operations of the CoRoT mission for three additional years, until 31 march 2013. The decision was taken on Friday October 23rd. |