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Rotation is one of the key stellar parameters which undergo substantial evolution during the stellar lifetime, in particular during the early stages. Stellar rotational periods can be determined on the basis of the periodic modulation of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Laura Affer , Giuseppina Micela , Fabio Favata , Ettore Flaccomio , Jerome Bouvier

We report the latest view of Kepler solar-type (G-type main-sequence) superflare stars, including recent updates with Apache Point Observatory (APO) 3.5m telescope spectroscopic observations and Gaia-DR2 data. First, we newly conducted…

The Kepler mission has been providing high-quality photometric data leading to many breakthroughs in the exoplanet search and in stellar physics. Stellar magnetic activity results from the interaction between rotation, convection, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-14 S. Mathur , D. Salabert , R. A. Garcia , T. Ceillier

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

Many stars, including those in binary or multiple systems, exhibit modified rotational evolution due to tidal interactions. While magnetic braking slows rotation in single stars, close binaries experience synchronization from tidal forces,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-19 Ilay Kamai , Hagai B. Perets

We present results regarding the longitudinal migrations of cool stellar spots that exhibit remarkable oscillations and explore their possible causes. We conducted analyses using high-quality data from nine target systems of various…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-15 N. Ö. Kaya , H. A. Dal

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

Context. There exist few variability studies of stars in the region in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram between the A and B-star pulsational instability strips. With the aid of the high precision continuous measurements of the CoRoT space…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 P. Degroote , B. Acke , R. Samadi , C. Aerts , D. W. Kurtz , A. Noels , A. Miglio , J. Montalban , S. Bloemen , A. Baglin , F. Baudin , C. Catala , E. Michel , M. Auvergne

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

We use 5,337 spectroscopic $v \sin i$ measurements of Kepler dwarfs and subgiants from the APOGEE survey to study stellar rotation trends. We find a detection threshold of 10 km/s, which allows us to explore the spindown of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-05 Gregory V. A. Simonian , Marc H. Pinsonneault , Donald M. Terndrup , Jennifer L. van Saders

We present a spectroscopic/photometric analysis of the rapid rotator KIC8429280, discovered by ourselves as a very young star and observed by the Kepler mission. We use spectroscopic/photometric ground-based data to derive stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Frasca , H. -E. Fröhlich , A. Bonanno , G. Catanzaro , K. Biazzo , J. Molenda-Zakowicz

Even with the diminished precision possible with only two reaction wheels, the Kepler spacecraft can obtain mmag level, time-resolved photometry of tens of thousands of sources. The presence of such a rich, large data set could be…

High-precision time series have recently become available for many stars as a result of data from CoRoT, Kepler, and TESS and have been widely used to study stellar activity. They provide information integrated over the stellar disk, hence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-17 Nadege Meunier , Anne-Marie Lagrange

Using data from the Gaia Data Release 3 (Gaia DR3) and Kepler/K2, we present a catalog of 16 open clusters with ages ranging from 4 to 4000 Myr, which provides detailed information on membership, binary systems, and rotation. We assess the…

Making use of the data obtained from Kepler satellite, we have analysed an F-type ultra-fast rotator KIC 6791060. We derive a rotational period of 0.34365$\pm$0.00004 d. Multiple periodicity with a period separation of $\sim$0.00016 d was…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Subhajeet Karmakar , Jeewan C. Pandey

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 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…

The unprecedented precision of broadband stellar photometry achieved with the planet-hunting missions CoRoT and \textit{Kepler} initiated a new era in examining the magnetically-driven brightness variations of hundreds of thousands of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-25 Nina-Elisabet Nèmec

High-precision time series photometry with the Kepler satellite has been crucial to our understanding both of exoplanets, and via asteroseismology, of stellar physics. After the failure of two reaction wheels, the Kepler satellite has been…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 Benjamin Pope , Timothy White , Daniel Huber , Simon Murphy , Tim Bedding , Douglas Caldwell , Aleksa Sarai , Suzanne Aigrain , Thomas Barclay

Stellar rotation periods measured in open clusters have proved to be extremely useful for studying stars' angular momentum content and rotationally driven magnetic activity, which are both age- and mass-dependent processes. While period…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Kevin R. Covey , Marcel A. Agüeros , Nicholas M. Law , Jiyu Liu , Aida Ahmadi , Russ Laher , David Levitan , Branimir Sesar , Jason Surace