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The PLATO Mission
Heike Rauer, Conny Aerts, Juan Cabrera +842
PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) is ESA's M3 mission designed to detect and characterise extrasolar planets and perform asteroseismic monitoring of a large numb…
Space-based infrared interferometry to study exoplanetary atmospheres
D. Defrère, A. Léger, O. Absil +30
The quest for other habitable worlds and the search for life among them are major goals of modern astronomy. One way to make progress towards these goals is to obtain high-quality…
Six winters of photometry from Dome C, Antarctica: challenges, improvements, and results from the ASTEP experiment
N. Crouzet, D. Mékarnia, T. Guillot +26
ASTEP (Antarctica Search for Transiting ExoPlanets) is a pilot project that aims at searching and characterizing transiting exoplanets from Dome C in Antarctica and to qualify this…
Improved Variable Star Search in Large Photometric Data Sets -- New Variables in CoRoT Field LRa02 Detected by BEST II
T. Fruth, P. Kabath, J. Cabrera +10
The CoRoT field LRa02 has been observed with the Berlin Exoplanet Search Telescope II (BEST II) during the southern summer 2007/2008. A first analysis of stellar variability led to…
ASTEP South: An Antarctic Search for Transiting ExoPlanets around the celestial South pole
Nicolas Crouzet, Tristan Guillot, Karim Agabi +19
ASTEP South is the first phase of the ASTEP project (Antarctic Search for Transiting ExoPlanets). The instrument is a fixed 10 cm refractor with a 4kx4k CCD camera in a thermalized…