GAUDI: A Preparatory Archive for the COROT Mission
/ Authors
E. Solano, C. Català, R. Garrido, E. Poretti, E. Janot-Pacheco, R. Gutiérrez, R. González, L. Mantegazza, C. Neiner, C. Neiner
and 28 more authors
Y. Frémat, S. Charpinet, W. Weiss, P. J. Amado, M. Rainer, V. Tsymbal, D. Lyashko, D. Ballereau, J. Bouret, T. Hua, D. Katz, F. Lignières, T. Lüftinger, P. Mittermayer, N. Nesvacil, C. Soubiran, C. V. Veer-Menneret, M. Goupil, V. Costa, A. Rolland, E. Antonello, M. Bossi, A. Buzzoni, C. Rodrigo, C. Aerts, C. J. Butler, E. Guenther, A. Hatzes
/ Abstract
The GAUDI database (Ground-based Asteroseismology Uniform Database Interface) is a preparatory archive for the COROT (Convection, Rotation, and Planetary Transits) mission developed at the Laboratorio de Astrofísica Espacial y Física Fundamental (Laboratory for Space Astrophysics and Theoretical Physics, Spain). Its intention is to make the ground-based observations obtained in preparation of the asteroseismology program available in a simple and efficient way. It contains spectroscopic and photometric data together with inferred physical parameters for more than 1500 objects gathered since 1998 January 1998 in 6 years of observational campaigns. In this paper, the main functions and characteristics of the system are described.
Journal: The Astronomical Journal
DOI: 10.1086/426370