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The Eddington mission was given full approval by the European Space Agency on the 23rd May 2002, with launch scheduled for 2007/8. Its science objectives are stellar evolution and asteroseismology, and planet finding. In its current design it consists of 4 × 60 cm folded Schmidt telescopes, each with 6° × 6° field of view and its own CCD array camera. Eddington will spend 2 years primarily devoted to asteroseismology with 1–3 months on different target fields monitoring up to 50,000 stars per field, and 3 years continuously on a single field monitoring upwards of 100,000 stars for planet searching. The asteroseismic goal is to be able to detect oscillations frequencies of stars with a precision 0.1–0.3 µHz, to probe their interior structure and the study the physical processes that govern their evolution.
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Roxburgh, I. (2003). The Eddington Mission. In: Wickramasinghe, C., Burbidge, G., Narlikar, J. (eds) Fred Hoyle’s Universe. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1605-5_11
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