Talk abstract details

The number of planets orbiting post-RGB stars is rapidly increasing: after V391 Peg b, the first post-RGB planet detected from asteroseismic data using the timing method, new (circumbinary) planets have been detected around the (sdB+red dwarf) system HW Vir and the cataclysmic variable QS Vir.
The presence of planets around two sdB stars suggest that sdB planets could be a common phenomenon and substellar objects could play a role near the RGB tip, when a huge mass loss occurs to form an sdB star.
In this contribution we present the status of our knowledge on V391 Peg and discuss the potential of Corot and Kepler to search for planets with the timing method and to measure the secular variation of the pulsation periods.