A schematic of the focal plane array is shown in Figure 2. Two CCDs are dedicated for the exoplanet channel (E1, E2) and two CCDs (A1, A2) are dedicated to the asteroseimology channel. The CoRoT focal plane contains four EEV 13.5-µm thinned, back illuminated CCDs. The telescope was 27 cm in diameter with an external baffle designed to reject scattered light at the level of 10 -13. The CoRoT satellite is in an 896 km altitude polar orbit (inclination = 90°) with an eccentricity of 0.00127 and orbital period of 103 minutes. More detailed information can be found at the CNES mission page. Summarized below are some details about the CoRoT mission. Details regarding the available data products and IDL tools to read the data into IDL are available at the CoRoT mission archive. The available public data from the CoRoT mission are the N2 data products (which are the primary scientific data products) as produced by the mission. The CoRoT mission light curves are also available from a dedicated FTP server located in France at the CoRoT Mission Data Center at Institute d'Astrophysique Spatiale ( IAS). As part of the search results, the archive creates a wget download script which can be run from the user's computer to download the light curves matching the search criteria. The archive also provides the ability to visualize the light curves for a given CoRoT target. The NASA Exoplanet Archive provides an interface to search the stellar and light curve properties for both the seismology and exoplanet channels. The NASA Exoplanet Archive partnered with the CoRoT mission and LAEFF to provide access to the public mission data. The Convection, Rotation, and Transit ( CoRoT) satellite, launched on 27 December 2006 as a CNES/ ESA mission that used high-precision photometry to study the pulsations of stars (asteroseismology) and to search for transiting exoplanets around main sequence stars. Summary details for CoRoT Exoplanet Archive-ETSS Data Sets Mission Overview
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