The MOST and COROT prime target fields: A target inventory

Abstract

MOST and COROT are two satellite missions dedicated to asteroseismology and the detection of exoplanets. Both satellites use CCDs as a detector and hence they do not exclusively observe their prime targets but an entire field with additional objects. It is crucial to know their astrophysical properties and to have information on the location in the CCD-fields. Therefore VISAT (VIenna Selection of Astronomical Targets, see Kallinger et al., this volume) was used to investigate the fields around the prime targets of COROT and MOST resulting in the two catalogues described in this article.