Question: Can those 600 CoRoT spacecraft exoplanet candidates be validated like Kepler candidates?
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Artman40
https://cnes.fr/en/web/CNES-en/9897-gp-corot-s-haul-of-25-exoplanets.php
5 years ago, it was announced that CoRoT spacecraft helped to find 625 exoplanet candidates, 25 (and a few more) of which have been confimred as of 2016.
However, in 2014 and 2016, with a help of Kepler spacecraft, new methods were discovered to help to statistically validate exoplanets in bulk without the need of radial velocity follow-up observations, transit timing variations or other methods.
CoRoT has been rather forgotten recently. However, can those new exoplanet confirmation techniques be used to validate and refute CoRoT exoplanet candidates?
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Artman40
Oh...
https://corot.cnes.fr/en/release-corot-legacy-data
Corot Legacy data was released last month.
"They are a goldmine for investigations of exoplanets, stars, structure of our galaxy and more generally any research based on ultra-high precision stellar photometry.
They also contribute to the preparation of future large space missions, in particular PLATO, the European successor of CoRoT.
The “CoRoT Legacy Book”, which describes these data and their correction methods, the most recent highlights up to now and the new space projects that inherit from CoRoT, will be published very soon."
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