The study of pulsating stars from the COROT exoplanet field data

Abstract

In this paper we present our proposal to search for periodically variable stars in the exoplanet field data. In order to do so one first has to perform a quasiautomated frequency search in the data. Once the periodically variable stars are found, they have to be classified, e.g. by means of a statistical scheme analoguous to the one we developed for the classification of new B-type variables discovered from the HIPPARCOS data. After the classification of the variable stars, we plan to study the β Cep stars and the slowly pulsating B stars (SPBs) with the goal to derive constraints on their internal structure.