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We have analysed 10 months of public data from the Kepler space mission to measure rotation periods of main-sequence stars with masses between 0.3 and 0.55 M_sun. To derive the rotational period we introduce the autocorrelation function and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-30 Amy McQuillan , Suzanne Aigrain , Tsevi Mazeh

This study applied machine learning models to estimate stellar rotation periods from corrected light curve data obtained by the NASA Kepler mission. Traditional methods often struggle to estimate rotation periods accurately due to noise and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-10 Fatemeh Fazel Hesar , Bernard Foing , Ana M. Heras , Mojtaba Raouf , Victoria Foing , Shima Javanmardi , Fons J. Verbeek

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 TESS mission delivers time-series photometry for millions of stars across the sky, offering a probe into stellar astrophysics, including rotation, on a population scale. However, light curve systematics related to the satellite's…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-12 Zachary R. Claytor , Jennifer L. van Saders , Lyra Cao , Marc H. Pinsonneault , Johanna Teske , Rachael L. Beaton

In a search of proper motion catalogs for common proper motion stars in the field of the Kepler spacecraft I identified 93 likely binary systems. A comparison of their rotation periods is a test of the gyrochronology concept. To find their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 K. A. Janes

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…

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

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

Spectroscopic follow-up of dozens of transiting planets has revealed the degree of alignment between the equators of stars and the orbits of the planets they host. Here we determine a method, applicable to spotted stars, that can reveal the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Philip A. Nutzman , Daniel C. Fabrycky , Jonathan J. Fortney

We present an investigation of spin-orbit angles for planetary system candidates reported by Kepler. By combining the rotational period $P_s$ inferred from the flux variation due to starspots and the projected rotational velocity $V\sin…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Teruyuki Hirano , Roberto Sanchis-Ojeda , Yoichi Takeda , Norio Narita , Joshua N. Winn , Atsushi Taruya , Yasushi Suto

Stellar rotation is a complex function of mass, metallicity, and age and can be altered by binarity. To understand the importance of these parameters in main sequence stars, we have assembled a sample of observations that spans a range of…

Owing to the remarkable photometric precision of space observatories like Kepler, stellar and planetary systems beyond our own are now being characterized en masse for the first time. These characterizations are pivotal for endeavors such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-03 Earl P. Bellinger , George C. Angelou , Saskia Hekker , Sarbani Basu , Warrick Ball , Elisabeth Guggenberger

The high-precision photometry from the CoRoT and Kepler satellites has led to measurements of surface rotation periods for tens of thousands of stars. Our main goal is to derive ages of thousands of field stars using consistent rotation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 Timo Reinhold , Laurent Gizon

We present rotation periods for thousands of active stars in the Kepler field derived from Q3 data. In most cases a second period close to the rotation period was detected, which we interpreted as surface differential rotation (DR). Active…

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

We perform photometric (the Lomb-Scargle periodogram, autocorrelation, and wavelet) and asteroseismic analyses of 92 Kepler solar-like main-sequence stars to understand the reliability of the measured stellar rotation periods. We focus on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-04 Yuting Lu , Othman Benomar , Shoya Kamiaka , Yasushi Suto

Previous work has demonstrated that the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) has the capability to detect transiting planets around main sequence stars in relatively short ($<$ 20 days) periods and using standard algorithms for transit…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-01 Michael B. Lund , Joshua A. Pepper , Avi Shporer , Keivan G. Stassun

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

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

We report on a new method for tracking the phases of the orbital modulations in very short-period, near-contact, and contact binary systems systems in order to follow starspots. We apply this technique to Kepler light curves for 414 binary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Bhaskaran Balaji , Bryce Croll , Alan M. Levine , Saul Rappaport

We analyse 829,481 stars from the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) to extract variability periods. We utilise a generalisation of the autocorrelation function (the G-ACF), which applies to irregularly sampled time series data. We…