COROT light curve data available

With very little fanfare, COROT have released the light-curve data for
their first two observing runs, downloadable from

http://idc-corotn2-public.ias.u-psud...va=browseGraph

It's a lovely collection of curves (the format is a .tgz of .fits
files, one per star; the .fits data format is described in text in the
first 9kb or so of the file, and it's easy to write software to parse
it, though I don't know whether there already exists nice software for
playing with light curves)

I produced thumbnail lightcurves for the hundred most variable objects
at

http://fivemack.livejournal.com/182633.html#cutid1

Lots of W UMa objects, lots of things on the Algol - Beta Lyrae
continuum. Various stars which haven't managed as much as one cycle in
the 60-day observing run, which are presumably Mira types.

And some weirdos like

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~t...0102811443.png

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~t...0102768859.png
(look at the eclipses at minimum light)

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~t...0102803664.png
(I can't figure out whether this is a cataclysmic variable of some
kind or a weird shifting-zero effect in the instrument)

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~t...0102832693.png

Welcome to the variable zoo!

Tom

On Mar 10, 9:20*pm, Thomas Womack
wrote:

I produced thumbnail lightcurves for the hundred most variable objects

Brillant!

On 10 Ìáñ, 23:20, Pierre Vandevenne wrote:
On Mar 10, 9:20*pm, Thomas Womack
wrote:

I produced thumbnail lightcurves for the hundred most variable objects

Brillant!

I agree, very impressive!

CoRoT has so far identified five transitting exoplanets and I am sure
there will be interesting times ahead thanks to both CoRoT and Kepler!

Anthony.

"Thomas Womack" wrote in message
...
With very little fanfare, COROT have released the light-curve data for
their first two observing runs, downloadable from

http://idc-corotn2-public.ias.u-psud...va=browseGraph

It's a lovely collection of curves (the format is a .tgz of .fits
files, one per star; the .fits data format is described in text in the
first 9kb or so of the file, and it's easy to write software to parse
it, though I don't know whether there already exists nice software for
playing with light curves)

I produced thumbnail lightcurves for the hundred most variable objects
at

http://fivemack.livejournal.com/182633.html#cutid1

Lots of W UMa objects, lots of things on the Algol - Beta Lyrae
continuum. Various stars which haven't managed as much as one cycle in
the 60-day observing run, which are presumably Mira types.

And some weirdos like

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~t...0102811443.png

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~t...0102768859.png
(look at the eclipses at minimum light)

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~t...0102803664.png
(I can't figure out whether this is a cataclysmic variable of some
kind or a weird shifting-zero effect in the instrument)

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~t...0102832693.png

Welcome to the variable zoo!

Tom

Very interesting. I will have to download some of them and take a look.
Terry B
Armidale NSW