 After 40 days of data acquisition, the Alarm mode pipeline algorithm detected the shallow signal of CoRoT-7b, starting the follow-up observations from the ground to get a confirmation of the planetary nature of the transiting object.The discovery of CoRoT-7b was announced a year later on 3 February 2009, during the CoRoT Symposium 2009 in Paris.It was published in a special issue of the journal "Astronomy and Astrophysics" dedicated to results from CoRoT.