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The first results of a new survey are reported, which explores the 2nd data release of the ESA-Gaia mission, in order to search for stellar companions of (Community) TESS Objects of Interest and to characterize their properties. In total,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 M. Mugrauer , K. -U. Michel

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is conducting a two-year wide-field survey searching for transiting exoplanets around nearby bright stars that will be ideal for follow-up characterization. To facilitate studies of planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-15 Rachel A. Matson , Steve B. Howell , David Ciardi

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will observe $\sim$150~million stars brighter than $T_{\rm mag} \approx 16$, with photometric precision from 60~ppm to 3~percent, enabling an array of exoplanet and stellar astrophysics…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Ryan J. Oelkers , Keivan G. Stassun

$Context.$ Pulsating stars are windows to the physics of stars enabling us to see glimpses of their interior. Not all stars pulsate, however. On the main sequence, pulsating stars form an almost continuous sequence in brightness, except for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-26 N. Mowlavi , S. Saesen , T. Semaan , P. Eggenberger , F. Barblan , L. Eyer , S. Ekström , C. Georgy

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered over 6700 nearby exoplanets candidates using the transit method through its all-sky survey. Characterizing the kinematic properties and identifying variable stars for the TESS…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-04 Di Wu , Di-Chang Chen , Ji-Wei Xie , Ji-Lin Zhou , Hai-Feng Wang , Weikai Zong , Subo Dong , Maosheng Xiang , A-Li Luo

We present the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Habitable Zone Stars Catalog, a list of 1822 nearby stars with a TESS magnitude brighter than T = 12 and reliable distances from Gaia DR2, around which the NASA's TESS mission can…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-28 L. Kaltenegger , J. Pepper , K. Stassun , R. Oelkers

The satellite Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO), due to be launched late 2026, will provide us with an unprecedented sample of light curves of solar-type stars that will exhibit both solar-type oscillations and signatures…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-06 Sylvain N. Breton , Antonino F. Lanza , Sergio Messina

New instrumentation is providing new insights into intermediate mass pulsating Cepheids, particularly about their formation and history. Three approaches are discussed, using space (Hubble and Chandra) and ground-based studies (radial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-06 Nancy Remage Evans

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will provide high precision time-series photometry for millions of stars with at least a half-hour cadence. Of particular interest are the circular regions of 12-degree radius centered around…

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 used TESS observations to search for pulsations in six known Of?p stars in the Magellanic Clouds. We find evidence for pulsational variability in three Of?p stars: UCAC4 115-008604, OGLE SMC-SC6 237339, and AzV 220. Two of them, UCAC4…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-14 S. Hubrig , R. Jayaraman , S. P. Järvinen

AI Hya has been known as an eclipsing binary with a monoperiodic $\delta$ Sct pulsator. We present the results from its {\it TESS} photometry observed during Sector 7. Including our five minimum epochs, the eclipse timing diagram displays…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Jae Woo Lee , Kyeongsoo Hong , Martti H. Kristiansen

We present high-resolution speckle interferometric imaging observations of TESS exoplanet host stars using the NN-EXPLORE NESSI instrument the at the 3.5-m WIYN telescope. Eight TOIs, that were originally discovered by Kepler, were…

To date, WASP-33 is the only delta Scuti star known to be orbited by a hot Jupiter. The pronounced stellar pulsations, showing periods comparable to the primary transit duration, interfere with the transit modeling. Therefore our main goal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 C. von Essen , S. Czesla , U. Wolter , M. Breger , E. Herrero , M. Mallonn , I. Ribas , K. G. Strassmeier , J. C. Morales

Space-based photometric surveys have discovered large numbers of planets transiting other stars, but these observe in a single band-pass and yield only the planet radius, orbital period, and transit duration. Information on the masses,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-03 E. Gaidos , D. Kitzmann , K. Heng

We report the discovery of three pulsars whose large dispersion measures and angular proximity to \sgr indicate the existence of a Galactic center population of neutron stars. The relatively long periods (0.98 to 1.48 s) most likely reflect…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. S. Deneva , J. M. Cordes , T. J. W. Lazio

The latest results from our ongoing multiplicity study of (Community) TESS Objects of Interest are presented, using astro- and photometric data from the ESA-Gaia mission, to detect stellar companions of these stars and characterize their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-24 M. Mugrauer , J. Zander , K. -U. Michel

Since the end of 2018, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) provides high-quality space data on stellar photometry to the astronomical community. We present the results of an analysis of TESS photometric data for known slowly…

The upcoming NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will obtain space-based uninterrupted light curves for a large sample of bright white dwarfs distributed across the entire sky, providing a very rich resource for…