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Owing to the remarkable photometric precision of space observatories like Kepler, stellar and planetary systems beyond our own are now being characterized en masse for the first time. These characterizations are pivotal for endeavors such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-03 Earl P. Bellinger , George C. Angelou , Saskia Hekker , Sarbani Basu , Warrick Ball , Elisabeth Guggenberger

The determination of exoplanet properties and occurrence rates using Kepler data critically depends on our knowledge of the fundamental properties (such as temperature, radius and mass) of the observed stars. We present revised stellar…

The Kepler spacecraft has collected data of high photometric precision and cadence almost continuously since operations began on 2009 May 2. Primarily designed to detect planetary transits and asteroseismological signals from solar-like…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 K. Kinemuchi , T. Barclay , M. Fanelli , J. Pepper , M. Still , Steve B. Howell

In the era of rapidly increasing amounts of time series data, classification of variable objects has become the main objective of time-domain astronomy. Classification of irregularly sampled time series is particularly difficult because the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-21 Sven Dennis Kügler , Nikos Gianniotis , Kai Lars Polsterer

Robust fast methods to classify variable light curves in large sky surveys are becoming increasingly important. While it is relatively straightforward to identify common periodic stars and particular transient events (supernovae, novae,…

This work brings a wavelet analysis for 14 Kepler white dwarf stars, in order to confirm their photometric variability behavior and to search for periodicities in these targets. From the observed Kepler light curves we obtained the wavelet…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-17 S. R. de Lira , J. P. Bravo , I. C. Leao , A. D. da Costa , B. L. Canto Martins , D. B. de Freitas , J. R. De Medeiros

A recent analysis of high precision photometry obtained using the Kepler spacecraft has revealed two surprising discoveries: (1) over 860 main sequence A-type stars -- approximately 40% of those identified in the Kepler field -- exhibit…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-11 James Sikora , Gregg A. Wade , Jason Rowe

The Kepler space telescope monitors over 156.000 stars with an unprecedented photometric precision. We are interested in stellar rotational periods which we find using Lomb-Scargle periodograms. This work focuses on the 306 exoplanet…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 Timo Reinhold , Ansgar Reiners , Gibor Basri , Lucianne M. Walkowicz

The Kepler Mission provides nearly continuous monitoring of ~156 000 objects with unprecedented photometric precision. Coincident with the first data release, we presented a catalog of 1879 eclipsing binary systems identified within the 115…

Research into light curves from stars (temporal variation of brightness) has completely changed how exoplanets are discovered or characterised. This study including star light curves from the Kepler dataset as a way to discover exoplanets…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-24 Krishna Chamarthy

Stellar rotation plays a key role in stellar activity. The rotation period could be detected through light curve variations caused by starspots. Kepler provides two types of light curves, one is the Pre-search Data Conditioning (PDC) light…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Kaiming Cui , Jifeng Liu , Shuhong Yang , Qing Gao , Huiqin Yang , Roberto Soria , Lin He , Song Wang , Yu Bai , Fan Yang

Dramatically improved data from observatories like the CoRoT and Kepler spacecraft have recently facilitated nonlinear time series analysis and phenomenological modeling of variable stars, including the search for strange (aka fractal) or…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 John F. Lindner , Vivek Kohar , Behnam Kia , Michael Hippke , John G. Learned , William L. Ditto

With the advent of dedicated photometric space missions, the ability to rapidly process huge catalogues of stars has become paramount. Bellinger and Angelou et al. (2016) recently introduced a new method based on machine learning for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 Earl P. Bellinger , George C. Angelou , Saskia Hekker , Sarbani Basu , Warrick H. Ball , Elisabeth Guggenberger

The NASA Kepler mission is providing an unprecedented set of asteroseismic data. In particular, short-cadence lightcurves (~60s samplings), allow us to study solar-like stars covering a wide range of masses, spectral types and evolutionary…

We present variability analysis of data from the Northern Sky Variability Survey (NSVS). Using the clustering method which defines variable candidates as outliers from large clusters, we cluster 16,189,040 light curves, having data points…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-13 Min-Su Shin , Hahn Yi , Dae-Won Kim , Seo-Won Chang , Yong-Ik Byun

Context. The Sun and solar-like stars undergo activity cycles for which the underlying mechanisms are not well understood. The oscillations of the Sun are known to vary with its activity cycle and these changes provide diagnostics on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 René Kiefer , Ariane Schad , Guy Davies , Markus Roth

By combining ground-based spectrographic observations of variability in the chromospheric emission from Sun-like stars with the variability seen in their eigenmode frequencies, it is possible to relate the changes observed at the surfaces…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 C. Karoff , T. S. Metcalfe , B. T. Montet , N. E. Jannsen , A. R. G. Santos , M. B. Nielsen , W. J. Chaplin

The Kepler Mission began its 3.5-year photometric monitoring campaign in May 2009 on a select group of approximately 150,000 stars. The stars were chosen from the ~half million in the field of view that are brighter than 16th magnitude. The…

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

From an examination of ~18,000 Kepler light curves of K- and M-stars we find some 500 which exhibit rotational periods of less than 2 days. Among such stars, approximately 50 show two or more incommensurate periodicities. We discuss the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-05 Katalin Oláh , Saul Rappaport , Matthew Joss