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.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, contribution to "Colse binaries in the 21th
century", Syros (Greece), June 2005. To be published by Ap&S
