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Stellar variability and transient events provide critical insights into astrophysics, accelerated by missions like CoRoT, Kepler, and K2. NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) adds a unique combination of long baseline and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-25 Bisi Bernard Ogunwale , Yossi Zaguri , Volker Perdelwitz , Marcel V"olschow , Sagi Yosef Azulay , Dafne Guetta , Lev Tal-Or

Photometric missions such as Kepler and TESS have generated millions of light curves covering almost the entire sky, offering unprecedented opportunities to study stellar variability and advance our understanding of the Universe. In this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 Paul F. X. Gregory , Jeroen Audenaert , Mykyta Kliapets , Daniel Muthukrishna , Andrew Tkachenko , Marek Skarka , Marc Hon , George R. Ricker

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has an exceptionally large plate scale of 21"/px, causing most TESS light curves to record the blended light of multiple stars. This creates a danger of misattributing variability observed by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-19 Michael E. Higgins , Keaton J. Bell

There are different classes of pulsating stars in the H-R diagram. While many of those classes are undisputed, some remain a mystery such as the objects historically called "Maia variables". Whereas the presence of such a class was…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-13 F. Kahraman Aliçavuş , G. Handler , S. Chowdhury , E. Niemczura , R. Jayaraman , P. De Cat , D. Ozuyar , F. Aliçavuş

A sample of 4 thousands Gaia sources with apparent $G$-band magnitudes of $<17$ and trigonometric parallaxes of $>3.33$ milli-arcseconds were cross-matched to the Transiting Exoplanet Survey high level science products and the Full-Frame…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Rhorom Priyatikanto

We present an update on the variable star survey performed on the TESS 30 min Full Frame Image (FFI) data reported by our first two papers in this series. This update includes a contamination analysis in order to identify false positives…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-04 S. K. Sahoo , A. S. Baran , H. L. Worters , P. Németh , D. Kilkenny

Superflares on solar-type stars has been a rapidly developing field ever since the launch of $\it Kepler$. Over the years, there have been several studies investigating the statistics of these explosive events. In this study, we present a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 Lauren Doyle , Gavin Ramsay , J. Gerard Doyle

All stars in the Kepler field brighter than 12.5 magnitude have been classified according to variability type. A catalogue of {\delta} Scuti and {\gamma} Doradus stars is presented. The problem of low frequencies in {\delta} Sct stars,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Luis A. Balona

During the last two years we have received long time-series photometric observations of bright (V mag < 8) main-sequence A- and B-type stars observed by the NASA TESS spacecraft and the Austria-Poland-Canada BRITE satellites. Using TESS…

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

The stellar evolution theory of massive stars remains uncalibrated with high-precision photometric observational data mainly due to a small number of luminous stars that are monitored from space. Automated all-sky surveys have revealed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 Jaan Laur , Indrek Kolka , Tõnis Eenmäe , Taavi Tuvikene , Laurits Leedjärv

Stellar rotation is a fundamental observable that drives different aspects of stellar and planetary evolution. In this work, we present an unprecedented manifold analysis of 160 B-type stars with light curves collected by the TESS space…

In this paper, we study stellar light curves from the TESS satellite (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) for the presence of stellar flares. The main aim is to detect stellar flares using two-minutes cadence data and to perform…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Małgorzata Pietras , Robert Falewicz , Marek Siarkowski , Kamil Bicz , Paweł Preś

Both direct and indirect methods of exoplanet detection rely upon detailed knowledge of the potential host stars. Such stellar characterization allows for accurate extraction of planetary properties, as well as contributing to our overall…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Emilie R. Simpson , Tara Fetherolf , Stephen R. Kane , Joshua Pepper , Teo Mocnik , Paul A. Dalba

We have monitored a 3 deg2 area toward Serpens Main in the Pan-STARRS1 r, i, and z bands from 2016 April to September. Light curves of more than 11,000 stars in each band were obtained, and 143 variables have been identified. Among those,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Jia Yin , Zhiwei Chen , Rolf Chini , Martin Haas , Sadegh Noroozi , Yongqiang Yao , Zhibo Jiang , Xuan Qian , Liyong Liu , Yao Li

Stellar variability studies are now reaching a completely new level thanks to ESA's Gaia mission, which enables us to locate many variable stars in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram and determine the various instability strips/bands.…

Previous measurements of stellar properties for K2 stars in the Ecliptic Plane Input Catalog (EPIC; Huber et al. 2016) largely relied on photometry and proper motion measurements, with some added information from available spectra and…

Stellar flares are abundant in space photometric light curves. As they are now available in large enough numbers, the statistical study of their overall temporal morphology is timely. We use light curves from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-12 Bálint Seli , Krisztián Vida , Katalin Oláh , Anna Görgei , Szabolcs Soós , András Pál , Levente Kriskovics , Zsolt Kővári

The Kepler spacecraft is providing time series of photometric data with micromagnitude precision for hundreds of A-F type stars. We present a first general characterization of the pulsational behaviour of A-F type stars as observed in the…