COnvection ROtation
and planetary Transits

Leader
French laboratories
Partners

Leader

CNES Centre National d'Études Spatiales General information http://www.cnes.fr/html/_455_.php CoRoT at CNES http://smsc.cnes.fr/COROT/index.htm

French laboratories

LESIA Laboratoire d'Études Spatiales et d'Instrumentation en Astrophysique

Major responsabilities in CoRoT
- Global scientific management
- Detectors : http://pccorot15.obspm.fr/COROT-CAL/index_agl.html
- Photometric bench : http://corotsol.obspm.fr/banc_photo/index.html
- Focal bloc - Electronics
- CoRoTCam : Focal bloc + dioptric objective
- On board software
- Equipment bay
- Ground segment : http://corotsol.obspm.fr/
- Data reduction centre

LAM Laboratoire d'astronomie de Marseille

http://www.oamp.fr/lam/
Major responsabilities in CoRoT
- telescope, baffle, cover
- mechanical test equipments
- exoplanet programme
- exoplanet observations calibrations

IAS IAS Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale

http://www.ias.U-psud.fr
Major responsabilities in CoRoT
- Dispersive system of the Camera
- Integrations of the camera
- Participation to the exoplanet redution pipe-line
- CO-responsability of the N1--> n2 sismo pipe-line
- Responsability of the public archive
- Coordination of the Data Analysis activities (DATeam)telescope, baffle, cover

OMP Observatoire de Midi-Pyrénées (LAT, CESR)

http://www.obs-mip.fr/omp/ Major responsabilities in CoRoT - Astrophysical data bases - CoRoTSky a tool to prepare observations - contribution to the scientific preparation OCA > http://www.obs-nice.fr/ SAp > http://dphs10.saclay.cea.fr/Sap/ LUAN > http://www-luan.unice.fr/ OHP > http://www.obs-hp.fr/SAp GEPI > http://wwwgepi.obspm.fr/ LUTH > http://luth2.obspm.fr/

Partners

Austria
> pretreatment processor called " Extractor" and the DC/DC converter
http://ams.astro.univie.ac.at/space/corot.html
http://www.iwf.oeaw.ac.at/english/welcome1024_e.html

Belgium
> baffle,cover, and structure of equipment box
http://www.csl.ulg.ac.be/home.html
http://www.astro.ulg.ac.be/orientation/asterosis/corot/corot_f.html
http://www.kuleuven.ac.be/research/researchdatabase/project/

Brazil > Ground segment, antenna in Alcantara http://www.astro.iag.usp.br/~corot/ Germany http://www.corot.de > On board software http://solarsystem.dlr.de/Missions/corot/caesp/ Spain > Ground segment http://www.iaa.es/corot/

ESA Science Program
> Optics, Contribution to the Integrations
http://www.esa.int/esaSC/120372_index_0_m.html

RSSD/ESTEC
> Digital processing Unit Contributions to ground based observations

Italy
http://www.ct.astro.it/gass/cool-space.html#corot

Hungary, Romania...