CoRoT Measures Solar-Like Oscillations and Granulation in Stars Hotter Than the Sun

@article{Michel2008CoRoTMS,
  title={CoRoT Measures Solar-Like Oscillations and Granulation in Stars Hotter Than the Sun},
  author={Eric Michel and Annie Baglin and Michel Auvergne and Claude Catal{\`a} and R'eza Samadi and Frédéric Baudin and Thierry Appourchaux and Caroline Barban and Werner W. Weiss and Gabrielle Berthomieu and Patrick Boumier and M-A. Dupret and Rafael A. Garc{\'i}a and Malcolm Fridlund and Rafael Garrido and Marie Jo Goupil and Hans Kjeldsen and Yveline Lebreton and Beno{\^i}t Mosser and Arlette Grotsch-Noels and Eduardo Janot-Pacheco and Janine Provost and Ian W. Roxburgh and Anne Thoul and Thierry Toutain and Didier Tiphène and S. Turck-chi{\`e}ze and Sylvie D. Vauclair and G{\'e}rard Vauclair and Conny Aerts and G Alecian and Jérôme Ballot and St{\'e}phane Charpinet and Anne Marie Hubert and François Lignières and Ph. Mathias and M{\'a}rio J. P. F. G. Monteiro and Coralie Neiner and Ennio Poretti and Jos{\'e} R. de Medeiros and Ignasi Ribas and Michel Rieutord and Teodoro Roca Cortés and Konstanze Zwintz},
  journal={Science},
  year={2008},
  volume={322},
  pages={558 - 560}
}
Oscillations of the Sun have been used to understand its interior structure. The extension of similar studies to more distant stars has raised many difficulties despite the strong efforts of the international community over the past decades. The CoRoT (Convection Rotation and Planetary Transits) satellite, launched in December 2006, has now measured oscillations and the stellar granulation signature in three main sequence stars that are noticeably hotter than the sun. The oscillation amplitudes… 
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