2000/02/25 by Laurent Eyer, Eyer, Laurent
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0002475
5 pages, Invited contribution, in the ASP Conference Series, Vol. N, 2000: ``The Impact of Large Scale Surveys on Pulsating Star Research'', L. Szabados and D.W. Kurtz, eds
arxiv created 2000/02/25 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
ESA and NASA are studying projects having a tremendous return on variable star research. Other national space agencies are also studying or developing projects of smaller costs but with impressive returns. The projects range from global Galactic surveys like the ESA mission GAIA which will give photometric time series for about 1 billion stars, to detailed pulsation modes studies like the CNES mission COROT which could reach a photometric precision lower than 1 ppm. The presentation will emphasize the future astrometric, asteroseismologic and planet detection missions.