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We have analysed K2 light curves for more than 3,000 low mass stars in the $\sim$8 Myr old Upper Sco association, the $\sim$125 Myr age Pleiades open cluster and the $\sim$700 Myr old Hyades and Praesepe open clusters to determine stellar…

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At fast rotation rates the coronal activity of G- and K-type stars has been observed to "saturate" and then decline again at even faster rotation rates -- a phenomenon dubbed "super-saturation". In this paper we investigate coronal activity…

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At an age of 4 Gyr, typical solar-type stars in M67 have rotation rates of 20-30 days. Using K2 Campaign 5 and 16 light curves and the spectral archive of the WIYN Open Cluster Study, we identify eleven three-dimensional kinematic members…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Emily Leiner , Robert D. Mathieu , Andrew Vanderburg , Natalie M. Gosnell , Jeffrey C. Smith

We present a large sample of stellar rotation periods for Kepler Objects of Interest (KOIs), based on three years of public Kepler data. These were measured by detecting periodic photometric modulation caused by star spots, using an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Amy McQuillan , Tsevi Mazeh , Suzanne Aigrain

We present the results of a 5 month photometric time-series survey for stellar rotation over a 40'x40' field on the 150 Myr open cluster M35. We report rotation periods for 441 stars and determine their cluster membership and binarity based…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Søren Meibom , Robert D. Mathieu , Keivan G. Stassun

We present results from a 5-month photometric survey for stellar rotation periods combined with a 4-year radial-velocity survey for membership and binarity in the 220Myr open cluster M34. We report surface rotation periods for 120 stars, 83…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Søren Meibom , Robert D. Mathieu , Keivan G. Stassun , Paul Liebesny , Steven H. Saar

We present Kepler light curves and optical spectroscopy of twenty X-ray bright stars located in the Kepler field of view. The stars, spectral type FK, show evidence for rapid rotation including chromospheric activity 100 times or more above…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 Steve B. Howell , Elena Mason , Padi Boyd , Krista Lynne Smith , Dawn Gelino

We analyze {\it K2} light curves for 794 low-mass ($1 > M_* > 0.1$ $M_{\odot}$) members of the $\approx$650-Myr-old open cluster Praesepe, and measure rotation periods ($P_{rot}$) for 677 of these stars. We find that half of the rapidly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Stephanie T. Douglas , Marcel A. Agüeros , Kevin R. Covey , Adam L. Kraus

Context. The CARMENES spectrograph is surveying ~300 M dwarf stars in search for exoplanets. Among the target stars, spectroscopic binary systems have been discovered, which can be used to measure fundamental properties of stars. Aims.…

We report rotation periods, variability characteristics, gyrochronological ages for ~950 of the Kepler Object of Interest host stars. We find a wide dispersion in the amplitude of the photometric variability as a function of rotation,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Lucianne M. Walkowicz , Gibor S. Basri

We present a refined analysis of 15038 Kepler main sequence light curves to determine the stellar rotation periods. The initial period estimates come from an autocorrelation function, as has been done before. We then measure the duration of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-06 Joanne Tan , Gibor Basri

KIC 7341653 is one of several late-type M dwarfs observed in the main mission of Kepler with peculiar infrared colors placing them in the domain of suspected young stellar objects (YSO). It is likely associated with a powerful X-ray emitter…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 Valeri V. Makarov , Alexey Goldin

Close M-dwarf binaries and higher multiples allow the investigation of rotational evolution and mean magnetic flux unbiased from scatter in inclination angle and age since the orientation of the spin axis of the components is most likely…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 D. Shulyak , A. Seifahrt , A. Reiners , O. Kochukhov , N. Piskunov

The intermediate period gap, discovered by Kepler, is an observed dearth of stellar rotation periods in the temperature-period diagram at $\sim$ 20 days for G dwarfs and up to $\sim$ 30 days for early-M dwarfs. However, because Kepler…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Yuxi Lu , Jason L. Curtis , Ruth Angus , Trevor J. David , Soichiro Hattori

Fully convective M dwarfs typically remain rapidly rotating and magnetically active for billions of years, followed by an abrupt and mass-dependent transition to slow rotation and quiescence. A robust understanding of this process is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-21 Emily K. Pass , David Charbonneau , David W. Latham , Perry Berlind , Michael L. Calkins , Gilbert A. Esquerdo , Jessica Mink

Kepler allows the measurement of starspot variability in a large sample of field red giants for the first time. With a new method that combines autocorrelation and wavelet decomposition, we measure 361 rotation periods from the full set of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 T. Ceillier , J. Tayar , S. Mathur , D. Salabert , R. A. Garcia , D. Stello , M. H. Pinsonneault , J. van Saders , P. G. Beck , S. Bloemen

Using light curves obtained by the K2 mission, we study the relation between stellar rotation and magnetic activity with special focus on stellar flares. Our sample comprises 56 bright and nearby M dwarfs observed by K2 during campaigns…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 St. Raetz , B. Stelzer , M. Damasso , A. Scholz

We present a statistical analysis of the Kepler M dwarf planet hosts, with a particular focus on the fractional number of systems hosting multiple transiting planets. We manufacture synthetic planetary systems within a range of planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Sarah Ballard , John Asher Johnson

Spinspotter is a robust and automated algorithm designed to extract stellar rotation periods from large photometric datasets with minimal supervision. Our approach uses the autocorrelation function (ACF) to identify stellar rotation periods…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Rae J. Holcomb , Paul Robertson , Patrick Hartigan , Ryan J. Oelkers , Caleb Robinson

We present a test for spin-orbit alignment for the host stars of 25 candidate planetary systems detected by the {\it Kepler} spacecraft. The inclination angle of each star's rotation axis was estimated from its rotation period, rotational…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Teruyuki Hirano , Roberto Sanchis-Ojeda , Yoichi Takeda , Joshua N. Winn , Norio Narita , Yasuhiro H. Takahashi