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We present the results of time-series photometric analysis of 15106 A-K type stars observed by the Kepler space mission. We identified 513 new rotational variables and measured their starspot rotation periods as a function of spectral type…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-10 Sowgata Chowdhury , Santosh Joshi , Chris A. Engelbrecht , Peter De Cat , Yogesh. C. Joshi , K. T. Paul

Our ability to determine stellar ages from measurements of stellar rotation, hinges on how well we can measure the dependence of rotation on age for stars of different masses. Rotation periods for stars in open clusters are essential to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Soren Meibom

We present rotation periods for thousands of active stars in the Kepler field derived from Q3 data. In most cases a second period close to the rotation period was detected, which we interpreted as surface differential rotation (DR). Active…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Timo Reinhold , Ansgar Reiners , Gibor Basri

We analyse light curves covering four years of 39 fast-rotating ($P_\mathrm{rot}< 1d$) late-type active stars from the Kepler database. Using time-frequency analysis (Short-Term Fourier-Transform), we find hints for activity cycles of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-04 K. Vida , K. Oláh , R. Szabó

We present rotation periods for 71 single dwarf members of the open cluster NGC6811 determined using photometry from NASA's Kepler Mission. The results are the first from The Kepler Cluster Study which combine Kepler's photometry with…

We have matched the astrometric data from Gaia Data Release 2 to the sample of stars with measured rotation periods from Kepler. Using 30,305 stars with good distance estimates, we select 16,248 as being likely main sequence single stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 James R. A. Davenport , Kevin R. Covey

The plethora of photometric data collected by the Kepler space telescope has promoted the detection of tens of thousands of stellar rotation periods. However, these periods are not found to an equal extent among different spectral types.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 Timo Reinhold , Alexander I. Shapiro , Veronika Witzke , Nina-E. Nèmec , Emre Işık , Sami K. Solanki

For a solar-like star, the surface rotation evolves with time, allowing in principle to estimate the age of a star from its surface rotation period. Here we are interested in measuring surface rotation periods of solar-like stars observed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-25 S. N. Breton , L. Bugnet , A. R. G. Santos , A. Le Saux , S. Mathur , P. L. Palle , R. A. Garcia

We have analysed 10 months of public data from the Kepler space mission to measure rotation periods of main-sequence stars with masses between 0.3 and 0.55 M_sun. To derive the rotational period we introduce the autocorrelation function and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-30 Amy McQuillan , Suzanne Aigrain , Tsevi Mazeh

We examine how the fraction $f$ of stars for which rotational modulation has been detected in Kepler light curves depends on the stellar mass $M_\star$ and age $t_\star$. Our sample consists of $\approx 850$ FGK stars hosting transiting…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Kento Masuda

In our previous work, we investigated the occurrence rate of super-flares on various types of stars and their statistical properties, with a particular focus on G-type dwarfs, using entire Kepler data. The said study also considered how the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-06 A. k. Althukair , D. Tsiklauri

Context. Kepler-17 is a G2V sun-like star accompanied by a transiting planet with a mass of ~2.5 Jupiter masses and an orbital period of 1.486 d, recently discovered by the Kepler space telescope. This star is highly interesting as a young…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Aldo S. Bonomo , Antonino F. Lanza

During the solar magnetic activity cycle the emergence latitudes of sunspots change, leading to the well-known butterfly diagram. This phenomenon is poorly understood for other stars as starspot latitudes are generally unknown. The related…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-06 M. B. Nielsen , L. Gizon , R. H. Cameron , M. Miesch

The dynamo process is believed to drive the magnetic activity of stars like the Sun that have an outer convection zone. Large spectroscopic surveys showed that there is a relation between the rotation periods and the cycle periods: the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 S. Mathur , R. A. Garcia , J. Ballot , T. Ceillier , D. Salabert , T. S. Metcalfe , C. Regulo , A. Jimenez , S. Bloemen

Stellar rotation is a strong function of both mass and evolutionary state. Missions such as Kepler and CoRoT provide tens of thousands of rotation periods, drawn from stellar populations that contain objects at a range of masses, ages, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Jennifer L. van Saders , Marc H. Pinsonneault

The rotational evolution of cool dwarfs is poorly constrained after around 1-2 Gyr due to a lack of precise ages and rotation periods for old main-sequence stars. In this work we use velocity dispersion as an age proxy to reveal the…

The ages of the most common stars - low-mass (cool) stars like the Sun, and smaller - are difficult to derive because traditional dating methods use stellar properties that either change little as the stars age or are hard to measure. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Soren Meibom , Sydney A. Barnes , Imants Platais , Ronald L. Gilliland , David W. Latham , Robert D. Mathieu

Rotational light modulation in Kepler photometry of K - A stars is used to estimate the absolute rotational shear. The rotation frequency spread in 2562 carefully selected stars with known rotation periods is measured using time-frequency…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 Luis A. Balona , Oyirwoth P. Abedigamba

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 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