The impact of CoRoT on close binary research
Abstract
The space experiment CoRoT will provide continuous monitoring and high accuracy light curves of about sixty thousand stars. Selected binary systems will be observed in the Additional Program frame as targets of long and continuous pointed observations. Moreover, thousands of new binaries will certainly be detected and hundreds of them will have extremely accurate light curves. This will allow studies of fine effects on the light curves, monitoring of stellar activity and, in combination with ground-based observations, will provide exquisite determination of stellar parameters. Among the new discoveries of interesting systems of special value will be those of low mass binaries.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0511171,
title = {The impact of CoRoT on close binary research},
author = {Carla Maceroni and Ignasi Ribas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0511171},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
6 pages, 2 figures, contribution to "Colse binaries in the 21th century", Syros (Greece), June 2005. To be published by Ap&SS