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Poretti, E.; Alonso, R.; Amado, P. J.; Belmonte, J. A.; Garrido, R.; Martín-Ruiz, S.; Uytterhoeven, K.; Catala, C.; Lebreton, Y.; Michel, E.; Suárez, J. C.; Aerts, C.; Creevey, O.; Goupil, M. J.; Mantegazza, L.; Mathias, P.; Rainer, M.; Weiss, W. W.
Bibliographical reference
The Astronomical Journal, Volume 129, Issue 5, pp. 2461-2468.
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2005
Citations
36
Refereed citations
27
Description
The activities related to the preparation of the asteroseismic,
photometric space mission COROT are described. Photoelectric
observations, wide-field CCD photometry, uvbyβ calibrations, and
further time series have been obtained at different observatories and
telescopes. They have been planned to complete the COROT program in the
direction of the Galactic anticenter. In addition to suitable
asteroseismic targets covering the different evolutionary stages between
zero-age main sequence and terminal-age main sequence, we discovered
several other variable stars, both pulsating and geometric. We compared
results on the incidence of variability in the Galactic center and
anticenter directions. Physical parameters have been obtained, and
evolutionary tracks fitting them have been calculated. The peculiarities
of some individual stars are pointed out.
Based on observations collected at the San Pedro Martír, Sierra
Nevada, Teide, La Silla, Haute-Provence, and Roque de Los Muchachos
(Telescopio Nazionale Galileo and Mercator telescopes) observatories.