The secondary eclipse of CoRoT-1b

ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 506:1 (2009) 353-358

Authors:

R Alonso, A Alapini, S Aigrain, M Auvergne, A Baglin, M Barbieri, P Barge, AS Bonomo, P Borde, F Bouchy, S Chaintreuil, R De la Reza, HJ Deeg, M Deleuil, R Dvorak, A Erikson, M Fridlund, F De Oliveira Fialho, P Gondoin, T Guillot, A Hatzes, L Jorda, H Lammer, A Leger, A Llebaria, P Magain, T Mazeh, C Moutou, M Ollivier, M Paetzold, F Pont, D Queloz, H Rauer, D Rouan, J Schneider, G Wuchterl

Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission VII. The "hot-Jupiter"-type planet CoRoT-5b

ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 506:1 (2009) 281-286

Authors:

H Rauer, D Queloz, Sz Csizmadia, M Deleuil, R Alonso, S Aigrain, JM Almenara, M Auvergne, A Baglin, P Barge, P Borde, F Bouchy, H Bruntt, J Cabrera, L Carone, S Carpano, R De la Reza, HJ Deeg, R Dvorak, A Erikson, M Fridlund, D Gandolfi, M Gillon, T Guillot, E Guenther, A Hatzes, G Hebrard, P Kabath, L Jorda, H Lammer, A Leger, A Llebaria, P Magain, T Mazeh, C Moutou, M Ollivier, M Paetzold, F Pont, M Rabus, S Renner, D Rouan, A Shporer, B Samuel, J Schneider, AHMJ Triaud, G Wuchterl

Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission VIII. CoRoT-7b: the first super-Earth with measured radius

ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 506:1 (2009) 287-302

Authors:

A Leger, D Rouan, J Schneider, P Barge, M Fridlund, B Samuel, M Ollivier, E Guenther, M Deleuil, HJ Deeg, M Auvergne, R Alonso, S Aigrain, A Alapini, JM Almenara, A Baglin, M Barbieri, H Bruntt, P Borde, F Bouchy, J Cabrera, C Catala, L Carone, S Carpano, Sz Csizmadia, R Dvorak, A Erikson, S Ferraz-Mello, B Foing, F Fressin, D Gandolfi, M Gillon, Ph Gondoin, O Grasset, T Guillot, A Hatzes, G Hebrard, L Jorda, H Lammer, A Llebaria, B Loeillet, M Mayor, T Mazeh, C Moutou, M Paetzold, F Pont, D Queloz, H Rauer, S Renner, R Samadi, A Shporer, Ch Sotin, B Tingley, G Wuchterl, M Adda, P Agogu, T Appourchaux, H Ballans, P Baron, T Beaufort, R Bellenger, R Berlin, P Bernardi, D Blouin, F Baudin, P Bodin, L Boisnard, L Boit, F Bonneau, S Borzeix, R Briet, J-T Buey, B Butler, D Cailleau, R Cautain, P-Y Chabaud, S Chaintreuil, F Chiavassa, V Costes, V Cuna Parrho, F De Oliveira Fialho, M Decaudin, J-M Defise, S Djalal, G Epstein, G-E Exil, C Faure, T Fenouillet, A Gaboriaud, A Gallic, P Gamet, P Gavalda, E Grolleau, R Gruneisen, L Gueguen, V Guis, V Guivarc'h, P Guterman, D Hallouard, J Hasiba, F Heuripeau, G Huntzinger, H Hustaix, C Imad, C Imbert, B Johlander, M Jouret, P Journoud, F Karioty, L Kerjean, V Lafaille, L Lafond, T Lam-Trong, P Landiech, V Lapeyrere, T Larque, P Laudet, N Lautier, H Lecann, L Lefevre, B Leruyet, P Levacher, A Magnan, E Mazy, F Mertens, J-M Mesnager, J-C Meunier, J-P Michel, W Monjoin, D Naudet, K Nguyen-Kim, J-L Orcesi, H Ottacher, R Perez, G Peter, P Plasson, J-Y Plesseria, B Pontet, A Pradines, C Quentin, J-L Reynaud, G Rolland, F Rollenhagen, R Romagnan, N Russ, R Schmidt, N Schwartz, I Sebbag, G Sedes, H Smit, MB Steller, W Sunter, C Surace, M Tello, D Tiphene, P Toulouse, B Ulmer, O Vandermarcq, E Vergnault, A Vuillemin, P Zanatta

Modelling solar-like variability for the detection of Earth-like planetary transits. II) Performance of the three-spot modelling, harmonic function fitting, iterative non-linear filtering and sliding boxcar filtering

(2008)

Authors:

AS Bonomo, S Aigrain, P Bordé, AF Lanza

EPICS, the exoplanet imager for the E-ELT

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering 7015 (2008)

Authors:

ME Kasper, JL Beuzit, C Verinaud, N Yaitskova, P Baudoz, A Boccaletti, RG Gratton, N Hubin, F Kerber, R Roelfsema, HM Schmid, NA Thatte, K Dohlen, M Feldt, L Venema, S Wolfk

Abstract:

Presently, dedicated instrument developments at large telescopes (SPHERE for the VLT, GPI for Gemini) are about to discover and explore self-luminous giant planets by direct imaging and spectroscopy. The next generation of 30m-40m ground-based telescopes, the Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs), have the potential to dramatically enlarge the discovery space towards older giant planets seen in reflected light and ultimately even a small number of rocky planets. EPICS is a proposed instrument for the European ELT, dedicated to the detection and characterization of expolanets by direct imaging and spectroscopy. ESO recently launched a phase-A study for EPICS with a large European consortium which - by simulations and demonstration experiments - will investigate state-of-the-art diffraction and speckle suppression techniques to deliver highest contrasts. The final result of the study in 2010 will be a conceptual design and a development plan for the instrument. Here we present first results from the phase-A study and discuss the main challenges and science capabilities of EPICS.