CoRoT: proposal for a 3 year extension

J. Cabrera on behalf of the CoRoT team

Extrasolare Planeten und Atmosphären Institut für Planetenforschung Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.

26.09.2012

Folie 1 / 8 EPSC Madrid 26.09.2012 > 26.09.2012 present context a bright future for transiting exoplanets CoRoT

I scientific specifications fulfilled (see talk by H. Deeg)

space-based surveys

I Kepler statistic of small planets around solar-like stars

I future PLATO (see talk by H. Rauer), TESS, JWST, EChO (see talk by G. Tinetti), FINESSE, PlanetVision, CHEOPS. . .

ground-based surveys

I successful WASP, HAT, MEarth. . .

I present and future: HAT-S, QES, KELT, Mascara, NGTS. . .

Folie 2 / 8 EPSC Madrid 26.09.2012 > 26.09.2012 CoRoT assets a bright future for transiting exoplanets access to bright stars

I stellar physics of bright stars (V<9mag) I small planets

I follow-up and characterization

pointing flexibility

I within CoRoT eyes (10 deg diameter): h m I winter field (anticenter) RA: 6 50 h m I summer field (center) RA: 18 50

I accesible FOV 1500 sq deg (actual FOV 2 sq deg per pointing)

I Kepler 105 sq deg

I different regions of the galaxy

Folie 3 / 8 EPSC Madrid 26.09.2012 > 26.09.2012 the scientific program for a 3 year extension the exoplanet program focus on bright stars

I stars Mv<15, less targets, better observed

I sub-Saturn type planets

I imagettes

credit S. Barros (LAM)

Folie 4 / 8 EPSC Madrid 26.09.2012 > 26.09.2012 the scientific program for a 3 year extension the exoplanet program focus on known systems

I planets that we can characterize I Rosetta stone planets

I observations driven by scientific program

credit A. Collier Cameron (Sagan Workshop 2012) Cabrera et al. (2010)

Folie 5 / 8 EPSC Madrid 26.09.2012 > 26.09.2012 the scientific program for a 3 year extension the exoplanet program focus on known systems

I RV planets in sismo field

I star characterization (Gaulme et al. 2010, Ballot et al. 2011) I potentially find and characterize small planets

Rauer et al. 2012, submitted Folie 6 / 8 EPSC Madrid 26.09.2012 > 26.09.2012 the scientific program for a 3 year extension the stellar physics program

I solar analogs, only feasible around bright enough targets (V∼6)

I planet host stars

I magnetic cycles

I hot and massive stars (O,B) (only CoRoT)

I young clusters (only CoRoT)

I eclipsing binaries

I galactic astronomy

Miglio et al. 2012 Folie 7 / 8 EPSC Madrid 26.09.2012 > 26.09.2012 conclusion a bright future for transiting exoplanets

I superb performance beyond scheduled lifetime

I we have now entered the era of data interpretation

I interesting science program for the future

I extension proposed, decision pending

The CoRoT Science Comitee G. Alecian, R. Alonso, M. Auvergne, A. Baglin, F. Baudin, P. Bordé, S. Chaintreuil, M. Deleuil, M. Fridlund, R. Garrido, T. Guillot, A. Hatzes, E. Janot-Pacheco, E. Michel, C. Moutou, A. Noels, M. Ollivier, E. Poretti, H. Rauer, D. Rouan, I. Roxbourgh, J. Schneider, G. Vauclair, W. Weiss, K. Zwint, O. la Marle, O. Vandermarq, C. Imad

Folie 8 / 8 EPSC Madrid 26.09.2012 > 26.09.2012