I had a good conversation with with Laura Chang (Princeton) today, who is interested in doing some work in the area of binary stars. We discussed the point that many of the very challenging things people have done with the Kepler data in the study of exoplanets—exoplanet detection, completeness modeling, populations inferences— are very much easier in the study of eclipsing binary stars. And the numbers are very large: The total number of eclipsing binary systems found in the Kepler data is comparable to the total number of exoplanets found. And there are also K2 and TESS binaries! So there are a lot of neat projects to think about for constraining the short-period binary population with these data. We decided to start by figuring out what's been done already.
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