Bibcode
Surace, C.; Alonso, R.; Barge, P.; Cautain, R.; Chabaud, P. Y.; Deleuil, M.; Fenouillet, T.; Meunier, J. C.; Moutou, C.
Referencia bibliográfica
Advanced Software and Control for Astronomy II. Edited by Bridger, Alan; Radziwill, Nicole M. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7019, pp. 70193B-70193B-8 (2008).
Fecha de publicación:
8
2008
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0
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Descripción
CoRoT (Convection, Rotation and planetary Transits) is a satellite
mission led by CNES. CoRot has been successfully launched on December
27th of 2006. One of its goals is to discover new exo-planets using the
transit method. It observes stars and sample their emission light every
512 seconds leading to observing runs of 12000 light curves over a 6
months period. For each run, 1000 of these light curves can be
over-sampled up to 32 second allowing a transit detection. In order to
select the targets to be over-sampled, the ground segment team at LAM
set up an infrastructure to get and analyse preliminary N1 data within a
week delay. The selected target are ordered in a list transmitted to the
"Centre de Mission Corot" (CMC). We present the infrastructure of the
over-sampling mode, the over-sampling software used for detection in raw
light-curves and the mechanisms of list ordering and selection. This
paper describes as well the feed back over the past one and a half year
of operation.