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SUMMARY:Early results from the CoRoT exoplanet programme - Suzanne Aigrain
  (University of Exeter)
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CONTACT:Dr. Zoe M. Leinhardt
DESCRIPTION:The Franco-European satellite CoRoT is the first space mission
  designed to search for transits of extra-solar planets. It is expected to
  be sensitive to very close-in planets with masses down to a few Earth mas
 ses\, and to larger planets in periods of up to a few weeks or months. It 
 was launched on Dec 27 2006 and has been in scientific operation since Feb
  2007. I will describe the basic characteristics of the mission and its as
 sociated ground-based observations programme. I will then present CoRoT-ex
 o-1b and CoRoT-exo-2b\, the first two new planets detected by CoRoT\, both
  of which are very hot\, large giant planets\, and discuss the transit det
 ection performance of the mission so far\, as well as its potential for th
 e detection of reflected light and of multiple-planet systems by transit t
 iming.
LOCATION:MR14\, DAMTP\, Pav. F
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