English
Related papers

Related papers: Periodic stellar variability from almost a million…

200 papers

We present results from the volume-complete spectroscopic survey of 0.1-0.3M$_\odot$ M dwarfs within 15pc. This work discusses the active sample without close binary companions, providing a comprehensive picture of these 123 stars with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Emily K Pass , Jennifer G Winters , David Charbonneau , Jonathan M Irwin , Amber A Medina

Hot sub-luminous stars represent a population of stripped and evolved red giants that is located on the extreme horizontal branch. Since they exhibit a wide range of variability due to pulsations or binary interactions, it is crucial to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 P. Ranaivomanana , M. Uzundag , C. Johnston , P. J. Groot , T. Kupfer , C. Aerts

From an examination of ~18,000 Kepler light curves of K- and M-stars we find some 500 which exhibit rotational periods of less than 2 days. Among such stars, approximately 50 show two or more incommensurate periodicities. We discuss the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-05 Katalin Oláh , Saul Rappaport , Matthew Joss

We examine the properties of $\sim50,000$ rotational variables from the ASAS-SN survey using distances, stellar properties, and probes of binarity from $\textit{Gaia}$ DR3 and the SDSS APOGEE survey. They have high amplitudes and span a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-18 Anya Phillips , C. S. Kochanek , Tharindu Jayasinghe , Lyra Cao , Collin T. Christy , D. M. Rowan , Marc Pinsonneault

About 10% of upper main sequence stars are characterised by the presence of chemical peculiarities, often found together with a structured magnetic field. The atmospheres of most of those chemically peculiar stars present surface spots,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 K. T. Wraight , L. Fossati , M. Netopil , E. Paunzen , M. Rode-Paunzen , D. Bewsher , A. J. Norton , G. J. White

Our goal is to determine the rotational and magnetic-related activity properties of stars at different stages of evolution. We have focussed our attention on 6 young loose stellar associations within 100 pc and ages in the range 8-70 Myr:…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 S. Messina , S. Desidera , M. Turatto , A. C. Lanzafame , E. F. Guinan

Rotation period measurements of stars observed with the Kepler mission have revealed a lack of stars at intermediate rotation periods, accompanied by a decrease of photometric variability. Whether this so-called dearth region is a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 Timo Reinhold , Saskia Hekker

Stellar rotation is a fundamental tracer of stellar magnetic evolution, age, and activity, with broad implications for Galactic archaeology and exoplanet characterization. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) provides…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-04 Andrew W. Boyle , Luke G. Bouma , Andrew W. Mann

To explore young star variability on a large range of timescales, we have used the MOST satellite to obtain 24 days of continuous, sub-minute cadence, high-precision optical photometry on a field of classical and weak-lined T Tauri stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Ann Marie Cody , Jamie Tayar , Lynne A. Hillenbrand , Jaymie M. Matthews , Thomas Kallinger

The (magnetic) chemically peculiar (CP) stars of the upper main sequence are well-suited laboratories for investigating the influence of magnetic fields on the stellar surface because they produce abundance inhomogeneities (spots), which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 K. Bernhard , S. Huemmerich , S. Otero , E. Paunzen

The rotation period of a star is an important quantity that provides insight into its structure and state. For stars with surface features like starspots, their periods can be inferred from brightness variations as these features move…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-16 Soichiro Hattori , Ruth Angus , Daniel Foreman-Mackey , Yuxi , Lu , Isabel Colman

Periodic variables are always of great scientific interest in astrophysics. Thanks to the rapid advancement of modern large-scale time-domain surveys, the number of reported variable stars has experienced substantial growth for several…

The Kepler spacecraft is providing photometric time series with micro-magnitude precision for thousands of variable stars. The continuous time-series of unprecedented time span open up opportunities to study the pulsational variability in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-08 K. Uytterhoeven , KASC WG#10

In this paper, we report the detections of stellar variabilities from the first 2-year observations of sky area of about 1300 square degrees from the Tsinghua University-NAOC Transient Survey (TNTS). A total of 1237 variable stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 Xinyu Yao , Lingzhi Wang , Xiaofeng Wang , Tianmeng Zhang , Juncheng Chen , Wenlong Yuan , Jun Mo , Wenxiong Li , Zhiping Jin , Xuefeng Wu , JunDan Nie , Xu Zhou

White dwarf stars are ubiquitous in the Galaxy, and are essential to understanding stellar evolution. While most white dwarfs are photometrically stable and reliable flux standards, some can be highly variable, which can reveal unique…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-31 Maya Steen , J. J. Hermes , Joseph A. Guidry , Annabelle Paiva , Jay Farihi , Tyler M. Heintz , Brison B. Ewing , Nathanial Berry

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

Stars exhibit a bewildering variety of variable behaviors ranging from explosive magnetic flares to stochastically changing accretion to periodic pulsations or rotations. The principal LSST surveys will have cadences too sparse and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-24 Eric D. Feigelson , Frederica Bianco , Sara Bonito

The Gaia third Data Release (DR3) presents a catalogue of 474\,026 stars with variability induced by magnetic activity. For each star, the catalogue provides a list of about 70 parameters among which the most important are the stellar…

We determine rotation periods for 127 stars in the ~115 Myr old Blanco 1 open cluster using ~200 days of photometric monitoring with the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS). These stars span F5-M3 spectral types (1.2 $\gtrsim M \gtrsim$…