Space-Based Photometry of Binary Stars: From Voyager to TESS
@article{Southworth2021SpaceBasedPO, title={Space-Based Photometry of Binary Stars: From Voyager to TESS}, author={John Southworth}, journal={Universe}, year={2021} }
Binary stars are crucial laboratories for stellar physics, so have been photometric targets for space missions beginning with the very first orbiting telescope (OAO-2) launched in 1968. This review traces the binary stars observed and the scientific results obtained from the early days of ultraviolet missions (OAO-2, Voyager, ANS, IUE), through a period of diversification (Hipparcos, WIRE, MOST, BRITE), to the current era of large planetary transit surveys (CoRoT, Kepler, TESS). In this time…
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