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Light curves and periodograms of 160 B stars observed by the TESS space mission and 29 main-sequence B stars from Kepler and K2 were used to classify the variability type. There are 114 main-sequence B stars in the TESS sample, of which 45…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 L. A. Balona , G. Handler , S. Chowdhury , D. Ozuyar , C. A. Engelbrecht , G. M. Mirouh , G. A. Wade , A. David-Uraz , M. Cantiello

We have searched the Kepler light curves of ~3900 M-star targets for evidence of periodicities that indicate, by means of the effects of starspots, rapid stellar rotation. Several analysis techniques, including Fourier transforms,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 S. Rappaport , J. Swift , A. Levine , M. Joss , R. Sanchis-Ojeda , T. Barclay , M. Still , G. Handler , K. Oláh , P. S. Muirhead , D. Huber , K. Vida

We have searched the K2 campaign 0 data for lightcurve variations associated with stellar variability. The results of this search are presented as a catalogue, giving the identifiers of nearly 2500 variable stars in the dataset. We list the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-09 D. J. Armstrong , H. P. Osborn , D. J. A. Brown , J. Kirk , K. W. F. Lam , D. L. Pollacco , J. Spake , S. R. Walker

We present an updated catalog of stellar rotation periods for the 2.5 Gyr open cluster NGC 6819 using the Kepler IRIS light curves from superstamp data. Our analysis uses Gaussian Process modeling to extract robust rotation signals from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-03 Sabina Sagynbayeva , Isabel L. Colman , Will M. Farr

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 physics of magnetic hot stars and how a large-scale magnetic field affects their interior properties is largely unknown. Few studies have combined high-quality observations and modelling of magnetic pulsating stars, known as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 D. M. Bowman , B. Buysschaert , C. Neiner , P. I. Pápics , M. E. Oksala , C. Aerts

Variability in the light curves of spotted, rotating stars is often non-sinusoidal and quasi-periodic --- spots move on the stellar surface and have finite lifetimes, causing stellar flux variations to slowly shift in phase. A strictly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Ruth Angus , Timothy Morton , Suzanne Aigrain , Daniel Foreman-Mackey , Vinesh Rajpaul

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…

We have analyzed Kepler light curves for 849 stars with T_eff < 5200 K from our Cycle 1 Guest Observer program. We identify six new eclipsing binaries, one of which has an orbital period of 29.91 d, and two of which are probably W UMa…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 T. E. Harrison , J. L. Coughlin , N. M. Ule , M. Lopez-Morales

We measure rotation periods for 12151 stars in the Kepler field, based on the photometric variability caused by stellar activity. Our analysis returns stable rotation periods over at least six out of eight quarters of Kepler data. This…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-01 M. B. Nielsen , L. Gizon , H. Schunker , C. Karoff

We analyzed the host stars of the present sample of confirmed planets detected by Kepler and Kepler Objects of Interest (KOI) to compute new photometric rotation periods and to study the behavior of their angular momentum. Lomb-Scargle…

After the failure of two reaction wheels and the end of its original mission, the Kepler spacecraft has begun observing stars in new fields along the ecliptic plane in its extended K2 mission. Although K2 promises to deliver high precision…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-08 Andrew Vanderburg

Dark magnetic spots crossing the stellar disc lead to quasi-periodic brightness variations, which allow us to constrain stellar surface rotation and photometric activity. The current work is the second of this series (Santos et al. 2019;…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-31 A. R. G. Santos , S. N. Breton , S. Mathur , R. A. García

The Kepler target KIC 5110407, a K-type star, shows strong quasi-periodic light curve fluctuations likely arising from the formation and decay of spots on the stellar surface rotating with a period of 3.4693 days. Using an established…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Rachael M. Roettenbacher , John D. Monnier , Robert O. Harmon , Thomas Barclay , Martin Still

In addition to stellar data, Gaia Data Release 2 (DR2) also contains accurate astrometry and photometry of about 14,000 asteroids covering 22 months of observations. We used Gaia asteroid photometry to reconstruct rotation periods, spin…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 Josef Durech , Josef Hanus

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

As the closest open cluster to the Sun, the Hyades is an important benchmark for many stellar properties, but its members are also scattered widely over the sky. Previous studies of stellar rotation in the Hyades relied on targeted…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 S. T. Douglas , M. A. Agüeros , K. R. Covey , P. A. Cargile , T. Barclay , A. Cody , S. B. Howell , T. Kopytova

We use K2 to continue the exploration of the distribution of rotation periods in Pleiades that we began in Paper I. We have discovered complicated multi-period behavior in Pleiades stars using these K2 data, and we have grouped them into…

The spectroscopic class of subdwarf A-type (sdA) stars has come into focus in recent years because of their possible link to extremely low-mass white dwarfs, a rare class of objects resulting from binary evolution. Although most sdA stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-29 G. Mösenlechner , E. Paunzen , I. Pelisoli , J. Seelig , S. Stidl , H. M. Maitzen

We have created a catalogue of variable stars found from a search of the publicly available K2 mission data from Campaigns 1 and 0. This catalogue provides the identifiers of 8395 variable stars, including 199 candidate eclipsing binaries…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-29 D. J. Armstrong , J. Kirk , K. W. F. Lam , J. McCormac , S. R. Walker , D. J. A. Brown , H. P. Osborn , D. L. Pollacco , J. Spake