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Chemically peculiar (CP) stars with a measurable magnetic field comprise the group of mCP stars. The pulsating members define the subgroup of rapidly oscillating Ap (roAp) stars, of which Alpha Circini is the brightest member. Hence, Alpha…

After more than one year of operation, the Kepler photometer has already provided exquisite data of solar-type stars. During the survey phase, 42 stars have been continuously observed. It appeared that five stars show evidence of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-06 S. Mathur

We present an investigation of a large sample of confirmed (N=233) and candidate (N=54) Galactic classical Be stars (mean V magnitude range of 6.4 to 12.6 mag), with the main aim of characterizing their photometric variability. Our sample…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-31 Klaus Bernhard , Sebastián Otero , Stefan Hümmerich , Nadejda Kaltcheva , Ernst Paunzen , Terry Bohlsen

Observations of Beta Lyr in four months of 2018 by three BRITE Constellation satellites (the red-filter BTr and BHr, and the blue-filter BLb) permitted a first, limited look into the light-curve variability in two spectral bands. The…

Results of an analysis of the BRITE-Constellation photometry of the SB1 system and ellipsoidal variable $\pi^5$ Ori (B2\,III) are presented. In addition to the orbital light-variation, which can be represented as a five-term Fourier cosine…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 M. Jerzykiewicz , A. Pigulski , G. Handler , A. F. J. Moffat , A. Popowicz , G. A. Wade , K. Zwintz , H. Pablo

The BRIght Target Explorer (BRITE) mission collects photometric time series in two passbands aiming to investigate stellar structure and evolution. Since their launches in the years 2013 and 2014, the constellation of five BRITE…

We characterize BRITE data obtained between 2013 and 2017 in the first 21 BRITE observing fields. Then, we overview the sample of 426 stars observed so far by the BRITE satellites. The review shows that BRITEs provide unique and precise…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-26 Andrzej Pigulski

Millisecond and binary pulsars are the most stable astronomical standards of frequency. They can be applied to solving a number of problems in astronomy and time-keeping metrology including the search for a stochastic gravitational wave…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Sergei Kopeikin

Space missions like CoRoT and Kepler have provided numerous new observations of stellar oscillations in a multitude of stars by high precision photometry. This work compares the observed rich oscillation spectrum of the rapidly rotating B3…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 G. J. Savonije

Multiple oscillation frequencies separated by close to or less than the formal frequency resolution of a data set are a serious problem in the frequency analysis of time series data. We present a new and fully automated Bayesian approach…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-28 T. Kallinger , W. W. Weiss

In early-type Be stars, groups of nonradial pulsation (NRP) modes with numerically related frequencies may be instrumental for the release of excess angular momentum through mass-ejection events. Difference and sum/harmonic frequencies…

Solar-like oscillations in red-giant stars are now commonly detected in thousands of stars with space telescopes such as the NASA Kepler mission. Parallel radial velocity and photometric measurements would help to better understand the…

We report the discovery of a new slowly pulsating B (SPB) star, with the largest number of detected frequencies to date by more than a factor of three, based on 37 days of MOST (Microvariability & Oscillations of STars) satellite guide star…

Massive stars play a significant role in the chemical and dynamical evolution of galaxies. However, much of their variability, particularly during their evolved supergiant stage, is poorly understood. To understand the variability of…

A high-resolution spectropolarimetric survey of all (573) stars brighter than magnitude V=4 has been undertaken with Narval at TBL, ESPaDOnS at CFHT, and HarpsPol at ESO, as a ground-based support to the BRITE constellation of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-11 Coralie Neiner , Gregg Wade , Stephen Marsden , Aurore Blazère

The daily variation of the solar photocenter over some 11 years is derived from the Mount Wilson data reprocessed by Ulrich et al. 2010 to closely match the surface distribution of solar irradiance. The standard deviations of astrometric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 V. V. Makarov , D. Parker , R. K. Ulrich

We verified for photometric stability a set of DA white dwarfs with Hubble Space Telescope magnitudes from the near-ultraviolet to the near-infrared and ground-based spectroscopy by using time-spaced observations from the Las Cumbres…

Be stars have generally been characterized by the emission lines in their spectra, and especially the time variability of those spectroscopic features. They are known to also exhibit photometric variability at multiple timescales, but have…