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$\delta$ Scuti stars are hot, rapid rotators and are a poorly understood class of pulsators. Asteroseismology provides the only means with which to probe their interior dynamics. However, their complex and unexplained oscillation patterns…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-06 K. H. Singh , S. K. Panda , S. M. Hanasoge , S. Dhanpal

An increasing number of white dwarf stars show atmospheric chemical composition polluted by heavy elements accreted from debris disk material. The existence of such debris disks strongly suggests the presence of one or more planet(s) whose…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-01 J. -N. Fu , G. Vauclair , J. Su , L. Fox Machado , F. Colas , S. -L. Kim , T. Q. Cang , C. Li , H. B. Niu , H. F. Xue , Y. Li , X. -J. Jiang , R. Michel , M. Alvarez , N. Dolez , L. Ma , A. Esamdin , J. Z. Liu

As white-dwarf (WD) stars cool, they go through one or more stages of $g$(gravity)-mode pulsational instability, becoming multiperiodic variable stars. Stars passing through these instability domains allow astronomers to study their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-09 A. H. Córsico

In this paper we derive a bound on the rate of change of the gravitational constant G coming from the pulsating white dwarf G117-B15A. This star is a ZZ Ceti pulsator extensively studied with astroseismological techniques for last three…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Marek Biesiada , Beata Malec

We present rotation period measurements for 107 M dwarfs in the mass range $0.15-0.70 M_\odot$ observed within the context of the APACHE photometric survey. We measure rotation periods in the range 0.5-190 days, with the distribution…

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has provided stellar rotation periods across much of the sky through high-precision light curves, but the reliability and completeness of these measurements require careful evaluation. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-21 Andrew W. Boyle , Andrew W. Mann , Jonathan Bush

The possible existence of warm ($T_{\rm eff}\sim19\,000$ K) pulsating DA white dwarf (WD) stars, hotter than ZZ Ceti stars, was predicted in theoretical studies more than 30 yr ago. However, to date, no pulsating warm DA WD has been…

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 the results of a systematic search for new rapidly oscillating Ap (roAp) stars using the 2-min cadence data collected by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) during its Cycle 1 observations. We identify 12 new roAp…

We report the discovery of the second and third pulsating extremely low mass white dwarfs (WDs), SDSS J111215.82+111745.0 (hereafter J1112) and SDSS J151826.68+065813.2 (hereafter J1518). Both have masses < 0.25 Msun and effective…

The pulsating DA white dwarfs are the coolest degenerate stars that undergo self-driven oscillations. Understanding their interior structure will help to understand the previous evolution of the star. To this end, we report the analysis of…

This paper investigates the frequency of transiting planetary systems around metal-polluted white dwarfs using high-cadence photometry from ULTRACAM and ULTRASPEC on the ground, and space-based observations with TESS. Within a sample of 313…

According to activity-rotation relations, rapid rotators are expected to show high levels of magnetic activity. However, recent studies with TESS have found Ultra Fast Rotating (UFR) M dwarfs with periods $<1$ d displaying low levels of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 Lauren Doyle , George W. King , Gavin Ramsay , Lía R. Corrales , Stefano Bagnulo , J. Gerry Doyle , Pasi Hakala

We present the results of a search for unusually rapidly rotating giant stars in a large sample of K giants (~1300 stars) that had been spectroscopically monitored as potential targets for the Space Interferometry Mission's Astrometric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Joleen K. Carlberg , Steven R. Majewski , Richard J. Patterson , Dmitry Bizyaev , Verne V. Smith , Katia Cunha

We present time-series photometry of 31 massive DA white dwarfs with $M\gtrsim 0.9~M_\odot$ within the ZZ Ceti instability strip from the Montreal White Dwarf Database 100 pc sample. The majority of the targets had no previous time-series…

We analyzed TESS archival data of three novae after recent outbursts, searching the orbital and white dwarf (WD) rotation period and possible variations of these periods. In V1405 Cas, we detected a period of $\sim$116.88 seconds, which we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 G. J. M. Luna , A. Dobrotka , M. Orio

Stellar oscillations give seismic information on the internal properties of stars. Red giants are targets of interest since they present mixed modes, which behave as pressure modes in the convective envelope and as gravity modes in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 Charlotte Gehan , Benoît Mosser , Eric Michel

Brown dwarfs were recently found to display rotational modulations, commonly attributed to cloud cover of varying thickness, possibly modulated by planetary-scale waves. However, the long-term, continuous, high-precision monitoring data to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Daniel Apai , Domenico Nardiello , Luigi R. Bedin

Thanks to high-precision photometric data legacy from space telescopes like CoRoT and Kepler, the scientific community could detect and characterize the power spectra of hundreds of thousands of stars. Using the scaling relations, it is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 S. Barceló Forteza , A. Moya , D. Barrado , E. Solano , S. Martín-Ruiz , J. C. Suárez , A. García Hernández

While stellar rotation periods $P_\mathrm{rot}$ may be measured from broadband photometry, the photometric modulation becomes harder to detect for slower rotators, which could bias measurements of the long-period tail of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Kento Masuda , Erik A. Petigura , Oliver J. Hall