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OATS-DAUT SEMINAR
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Speaker: Ennio Poretti (INAF / Oss. Astron. di Brera)

Title: The scientific profile of the space mission Corot

Date: Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Time: 12:00
Venue: Villa Bazzoni

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Abstract: The COROT (COnvection, ROtation and planetary Transits) mission, very successfully launched in December 2006, is intended to provide high-precision (noise level in the frequency spectrum 0.7 ppm over a 5 d time baseline) photometric monitoring of stellar targets to achieve three main objectives:
1) stellar seismology of dwarf stars to give direct information on the structure and dynamics of their interiors (Seismology programme). Among those, a few bright stars (V<8.0) will be studied continuously for 150 days (primary targets), along with up to 9 fainter stars (V<9.5, secondary targets), located in the same field of the primary targets;
2) the detection of Earth-like planets from eclipses of their parent stars (Exoplanet programme);
3) the accurate high precision, continuous, photometric monitoring of many thousands of fainter stars that lie aside in the Exoplanetary fields.
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