2012 • In Richards, Mercedes Tharam; Hubeny, Ivan (Eds.) From interacting binaries to exoplanets : essential modeling tools: proceedings of the 282nd symposium of the International Astronomical Union held in Tatranská Lomnica, Slovakia, July 18-22, 2011
[en] The CoRoT and Kepler space missions have opened a new era in eclipsing binary research. While specifically designed for exoplanet search, they offer as by-products the discovery and monitoring of variable stars, in great majority eclipsing binaries (EB). The missions are therefore providing thousands of EB light curves of unprecedented accuracy (typically a few hundred parts per million, ppm), with regular sampling (from 1[SUP]s[/SUP] to 29[SUP]m[/SUP]), extending over time spans of months, and with a very high duty cycle (>90%). Thanks to this excellent photometry, research topics as asteroseismology of EB components are quickly developing, and physical phenomena such as doppler boosting, theoretically predicted but extremely difficult to observe from the ground, have been unambiguously detected. We present the main properties of the Corot and Kepler EB samples and briefly review the highlights of the missions in this field.
Disciplines :
Space science, astronomy & astrophysics
Author, co-author :
Maceroni, Carla; INAF–Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, via Frascati 33, I-00040, Monteporzio C. (RM), Italy
Gandolfi, Davide; ESA Estec, Keplerlaan 1, 2201 AZ Noordwijk, Netherlands
Montalban Iglesias, Josefa ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Astrophysique stellaire théorique et astérosismologie
Aerts, Conny; Institute of Astronomy, K.U.Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, B3001 Leuven, Belgium )
Hubeny, Ivan
Language :
English
Title :
The Impact of CoRoT and Kepler on Eclipsing Binary Science
Publication date :
2012
Event name :
282nd symposium of the International Astronomical Union
Event place :
Tatranská Lomnica, Slovakia
Event date :
July 18-22, 2011
Audience :
International
Main work title :
From interacting binaries to exoplanets : essential modeling tools: proceedings of the 282nd symposium of the International Astronomical Union held in Tatranská Lomnica, Slovakia, July 18-22, 2011
Editor :
Richards, Mercedes Tharam
Hubeny, Ivan
Publisher :
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United States - New York
ISBN/EAN :
978-1107019829
Collection name :
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union Symposia and Colloquia
