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Aims. The aim of our work is to analyze the light curves of $\beta$ Pic recently observed by TESS in sectors 32, 33, and 34, searching for the signatures of exocomet transits. Methods. We process the $\beta$ Pic light curves from the MAST…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Ya. Pavlenko , I. Kulyk , O. Shubina , M. Vasylenko , D. Dobrycheva , P. Korsun

Background. Astrometry at or below the micro-arcsec level with an imaging telescope assumes that the uncertainty on the location of an unresolved source can be an arbitrarily small fraction of the detector pixel, given a sufficient photon…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-06 Mario Gai , Alberto Vecchiato , Alberto Riva , Deborah Busonero , Mario Lattanzi , Beatrice Bucciarelli , Mariateresa Crosta , Zhaoxiang Qi

The NASA Star and Exoplanet Database (NStED) is a general purpose stellar archive with the aim of providing support for NASA's planet finding and characterization goals, stellar astrophysics, and the planning of NASA and other space…

To date, the CoRoT space mission has produced more than 124,471 light curves. Classifying these curves in terms of unambiguous variability behavior is mandatory for obtaining an unbiased statistical view on their controlling root-causes.…

The NASA TESS mission is conducting a nearly full-sky survey, enabling the photometric characterisation of millions of stars. The forthcoming ESA PLATO mission will provide long-duration, high-precision photometry of tens of thousands of…

We provide a database of transit times and updated ephemerides for 382 planets based on data from the NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and previously reported transit times which were scraped from the literature in a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Ekaterina S. Ivshina , Joshua N. Winn

After observing WASP-12 in the second year of the primary mission, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) revisited the system in late 2021 during its extended mission. In this paper, we incorporate the new TESS photometry into a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-22 Ian Wong , Avi Shporer , Shreyas Vissapragada , Michael Greklek-McKeon , Heather A. Knutson , Joshua N. Winn , Björn Benneke

We determine the starspot detection rate in exoplanetary transit light curves for M and K dwarf stars observed by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) using various starspot filling factors and starspot distributions. We used…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 J. Tregloan-Reed , E. Unda-Sanzana

We present the detection of a peculiar high-frequency noise component in the 20 second cadence SAP (Simple Aperture Photometry) light curve of TESS (Transiting Exoplanets Survey Satellite). This effect (labeled as blue noise) may be…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-17 Sz. Kálmán , Sz. Csizmadia , A. Pál , Gy. M. Szabó

We present the results of an automated variability analysis of the Kepler public data measured in the first quarter (Q1) of the mission. In total, about 150 000 light curves have been analysed to detect stellar variability, and to identify…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 J. Debosscher , J. Blomme , C. Aerts , J. De Ridder

High-quality, short-cadence photometry from TESS enables the detection of rapid oscillators with unprecedented sensitivity. In this work, we conduct a homogeneous search for high-frequency variability using 20-second cadence light curves…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 Guanda Huang , Xiaodian Chen , Shu Wang , Xiaobin Zhang , Licai Deng

We derive solutions to transit light curves of exoplanets orbiting rapidly-rotating stars. These stars exhibit significant oblateness and gravity darkening, a phenomenon where the poles of the star have a higher temperature and luminosity…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Shashank Dholakia , Rodrigo Luger , Shishir Dholakia

Reanalyzing contact binaries with space-based photometric data and investigating possible parameter changes can yield accurate samples for theoretical studies. We investigated light curve solutions and fundamental parameters for twenty…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-30 Ehsan Paki , Atila Poro

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Asteroseismic modelling of isolated star presents significant challenges due to the difficulty in accurately determining stellar parameters, particularly the stellar age. These challenges can be overcomed by observing stars in open…

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) presents us with an unprecedented volume of space-based photometric observations that must be analyzed in an efficient and unbiased manner. With at least $\sim1,000,000$ new light curves…

In this short paper, we study the photometric precision of stellar light curves obtained by the CoRoT satellite in its planet finding channel, with a particular emphasis on the timescales characteristic of planetary transits. Together with…

NASA's TESS mission \citep{tess} has produced high precision photometry of millions of stars to the community. The majority of TESS observations have a duration of $\approx$27 days, corresponding to a single observation during a TESS…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-17 Christina Hedges , Ruth Angus , Geert Barentsen , Nicholas Saunders , Benjamin T. Montet , Michael Gully-Santiago

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

Pulsations and binarity are both common features of massive stars. The study of pulsating massive stars in eclipsing binary systems hold great potential for constraining stellar structure and evolution theory. However, prior to the all-sky…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-13 John Southworth , Dominic M. Bowman