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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

Kepler-30 is a unique target to study stellar activity and rotation in a young solar-like star accompanied by a compact planetary system. We use about 4 years of high-precision photometry collected by the Kepler mission to investigate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-09 D. B. de Freitas , A. F. Lanza , F. O. da Silva Gomes , M. L. Das Chagas

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

The study of stellar activity cycles is crucial to understand the underlying dynamo and how it causes activity signatures such as dark spots and bright faculae. We study the appearance of activity signatures in contemporaneous photometric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 T. Reinhold , K. J. Bell , J. Kuszlewicz , S. Hekker , A. I. Shapiro

By using the LAMOST time-domain survey data, we study stellar activities based on the $\rm{H_{\alpha}}$ lines for about 2000 stars in four $K$2 plates. Two indices, $R_{\rm{H\alpha}}^{'}$ and $R_{\rm{H\alpha}}^{+}$, are computed from LAMOST…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-04 Henggeng Han , Song Wang , Yu Bai , Huiqin Yang , Xiangsong Fang , Jifeng Liu

Variability observed in photometric lightcurves of late-type stars (on timescales longer than a day) is a dominant noise source in exoplanet surveys and results predominantly from surface manifestations of stellar magnetic activity, namely…

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

(abridged) A method for simulating light curves containing stellar micro-variability for a range of spectral types and ages, based on parameter-by-parameter scaling of a multi-component fit to the solar irradiance power spectrum (from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Aigrain , F. Favata , G. Gilmore

The open cluster M67 offers the unique opportunity to measure rotation periods for solar-age stars across a range of masses, potentially filling a critical gap in the understanding of angular momentum loss in older main sequence stars. The…

The second Gaia data release contains the identification of 147 535 low-mass ($\le 1.4 M_{\odot}$) rotational modulation variable candidates on (or close to) the main sequence, together with their rotation period and modulation amplitude.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 Alessandro C. Lanzafame , Elisa Distefano , Sydney A. Barnes , Federico Spada

The relation between magnetic activity and rotation in late-type stars provides fundamental information on stellar dynamos and angular momentum evolution. Rotation/activity studies found in the literature suffer from inhomogeneity in the…

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 examine 4-yr almost continuous Kepler photometry of 115 B stars. We find that the light curves of 39 percent of these stars are simply described by a low-frequency sinusoid and its harmonic, usually with variable amplitudes, which we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-09 L. A. Balona , A. S. Baran , J. Daszynska-Daszkiewicz , P. De Cat

We investigate the light variations of 15 Am stars using four years of high-precision photometry from the Kepler spacecraft and an additional 14 Am stars from the K2 Campaign 0 field. We find that most of the Am stars in the Kepler field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 L. A. Balona , G. Catanzaro , O. P. Abedigamba , V. Ripepi , B. Smalley

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

Tens of thousands of rotation periods have been measured in the Kepler fields, including a substantial fraction of rapid rotators. We use Gaia parallaxes to distinguish photometric binaries (PBs) from single stars on the unevolved lower…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-07 Gregory V. A. Simonian , Marc H. Pinsonneault , Donald M. Terndrup

Co-rotating spots at different latitudes on the stellar surface generate periodic photometric variability and can be useful proxies to detect Differential Rotation (DR). DR is a major ingredient of the solar dynamo but observations of…

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

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

In previous work we identified six Sun-like stars observed by Kepler with exceptionally clear asteroseismic signatures of rotation. Here, we show that five of these stars exhibit surface variability suitable for measuring rotation. In order…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 M. B. Nielsen , H. Schunker , L. Gizon , W. H. Ball

Precise photometry from the Kepler space telescope allows not only the measurement of rotation in solar-type field stars, but also the determination of reliable masses and ages from asteroseismology. These critical data have recently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-29 Travis S. Metcalfe , Ricky Egeland , Jennifer van Saders