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We present the results of an automated variability analysis of the Kepler public data measured in the first quarter (Q1) of the mission. In total, about 150 000 light curves have been analysed to detect stellar variability, and to identify…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 J. Debosscher , J. Blomme , C. Aerts , J. De Ridder

We present the first data release of the Kepler Smear Campaign, using collateral 'smear' data obtained in the Kepler four-year mission to reconstruct light curves of 102 stars too bright to have been otherwise targeted. We describe the…

The Kepler mission is providing photometric data of exquisite quality for the asteroseismic study of different classes of pulsating stars. These analyses place particular demands on the pre-processing of the data, over a range of timescales…

Instrumental data are affected by systematic effects that dominate the errors and can be relevant when searching for small signals. This is the case of the K2 mission, a follow up of the Kepler mission, that, after a failure on two reaction…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 A. Petralia , G. Micela

We propose a new framework to predict stellar properties from light curves. We analyze the light-curve data from the Kepler space mission and develop a novel tool for deriving the stellar rotation periods for main-sequence stars. Using this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-26 Ilay Kamai , Hagai B. Perets

In the first three years of operation the Kepler mission found 3,697 planet candidates from a set of 18,406 transit-like features detected on over 200,000 distinct stars. Vetting candidate signals manually by inspecting light curves and…

The nearly continuous light curves with micromagnitude precision provided by the space mission Kepler are revolutionising our view of pulsating stars. They have revealed a vast sea of low-amplitude pulsation modes that were undetectable…

We apply AnalyticLC, an analytic model described in an accompanying paper, to interpret Kepler data of systems that contain two or three transiting planets. We perform tests to verify that the obtained solutions agree with full N-body…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-02 Yair Judkovsky , Aviv Ofir , Oded Aharonson

We search for transits around all known pulsating {\delta} Sct variables (6500 K < Teff < 10 000 K) in the long-cadence Kepler data after subtracting the pulsation signal through an automated routine. To achieve this, we devise a simple and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-27 Daniel R. Hey , Benjamin T. Montet , Benjamin J. S. Pope , Simon J. Murphy , Timothy R. Bedding

We present the results of a search for potential transit signals in the first three quarters of photometry data acquired by the Kepler Mission. The targets of the search include 151,722 stars which were observed over the full interval and…

The Kepler mission has discovered over 2500 exoplanet candidates in the first two years of spacecraft data, with approximately 40% of them in candidate multi-planet systems. The high rate of multiplicity combined with the low rate of…

We present an update to the EVEREST K2 pipeline that addresses various limitations in the previous version and improves the photometric precision of the de-trended light curves. We develop a fast regularization scheme for third order pixel…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 Rodrigo Luger , Ethan Kruse , Daniel Foreman-Mackey , Eric Agol , Nicholas Saunders

The ~ 200,000 stars observed by the Kepler mission have provided unprecedented constraints across astrophysics. With the advent of modern spectroscopic and photometric surveys, new limits in stellar characterizations are within reach. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-20 Diego Godoy-Rivera , Desmond H. Grossmann , Tyler Richey-Yowell , Angela R. G. Santos , Savita Mathur , Rafael A. Garcia

The Kepler Mission has provided unprecedented, nearly continuous photometric data of $\sim$200,000 objects in the $\sim$105 deg$^{2}$ field of view from the beginning of science operations in May of 2009 until the loss of the second…

Time-domain surveys have advanced astronomical research by revealing diverse variable phenomena, from stellar flares to transient events. The scale and complexity of survey data, along with the demand for rapid classification, present…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-10 Xiaoxiong Zuo , Yihan Tao , Yang Huang , Zhixuan Kang , Huaxi Chen , Chenzhou Cui , Jiashu Pan , Xiao Kong , Xiaoyu Tang , Henggeng Han , Haiyang Mu , Yunfei Xu , Dongwei Fan , Guirong Xue , Ali Luo , Jifeng Liu

We present results from high-resolution, optical to near-IR imaging of host stars of Kepler Objects of Interest (KOIs), identified in the original Kepler field. Part of the data were obtained under the Kepler imaging follow-up observation…

Eclipsing binaries serve as a valuable source of stellar masses and radii that inform stellar evolutionary models and provide insight into additional astrophysical processes. The exquisite light curves generated by space-based missions such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Rachel A. Matson , Douglas R. Gies , Zhao Guo , Jerome A. Orosz

The Kepler Mission revolutionized exoplanet science and stellar astrophysics by obtaining highly precise photometry of over 200,000 stars over 4 years. A critical piece of information to exploit Kepler data is its selection function, since…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-05 Linnea M. Wolniewicz , Travis A. Berger , Daniel Huber