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Rotational variables are stars that vary in brightness due to star spots modulated by rotation. They are probes of stellar magnetism, binarity, and evolution. Phillips et al. (2023) explored distinct populations of ~50,000 high-amplitude…

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Spectroscopic parameters (effective temperature, metallicity, etc) were determined for a large sample of ~100 red giants in the Kepler field, for which mass, radius, and evolutionary status had already been asteroseismologically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 Y. Takeda , A. Tajitsu , B. Sato , Y. -J. Liu , Y. -Q. Chen , G. Zhao

Thanks to missions like Kepler and TESS, we now have access to tens of thousands of high precision, fast cadence, and long baseline stellar photometric observations. In principle, these light curves encode a vast amount of information about…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Rodrigo Luger , Daniel Foreman-Mackey , Christina Hedges , David W. Hogg

We report on the ground-based follow-up program of spectroscopic and photometric observations of solar-like asteroseismic targets for the Kepler space mission. These stars constitute a large group of more than thousand objects which are the…

Rotational shear in Sun-like stars is thought to be an important ingredient in models of stellar dynamos. Thanks to helioseismology, rotation in the Sun is characterized well, but the interior rotation profiles of other Sun-like stars are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-05 M. B. Nielsen , H. Schunker , L. Gizon , J. Schou , W. H. Ball

Young and active stars generally have regular, almost sinusoidal, patterns of variability attributed to their rotation, while the majority of older and less active stars, including the Sun, have more complex and non-regular light-curves…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 E. M. Amazo-Gómez , A. I. Shapiro , S. K. Solanki , N. A. Krivova , G. Kopp , T. Reinhold , M. Oshagh , A. Reiners

We performed simple spot-model calculations for quasi-periodic brightness variations of solar-type stars showing superflares, by using Kepler photometric data. Most of superflare stars show quasi-periodic brightness modulations with the…

The long and almost continuous observations by Kepler show clear evidence of a granulation background signal in a large sample of stars, which is interpreted as the surface manifestation of convection. It has been shown that its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-15 T. Kallinger , J. De Ridder , S. Hekker , S. Mathur , B. Mosser , M. Gruberbauer , R. A. Garcia , C. Karoff , J. Ballot

Zeeman Doppler imaging has successfully mapped the large-scale magnetic fields of stars over a large range of spectral types, rotation periods and ages. When observed over multiple epochs, some stars show polarity reversals in their global…

By combining ground-based spectrographic observations of variability in the chromospheric emission from Sun-like stars with the variability seen in their eigenmode frequencies, it is possible to relate the changes observed at the surfaces…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 C. Karoff , T. S. Metcalfe , B. T. Montet , N. E. Jannsen , A. R. G. Santos , M. B. Nielsen , W. J. Chaplin

Scaling relations that link asteroseismic quantities to global stellar properties are important for gaining understanding of the intricate physics that underpins stellar pulsation. The common notion that all stars in an open cluster have…

The space mission Kepler provides us with long and uninterrupted photometric time series of red giants. We are now able to probe the rotational behaviour in their deep interiors using the observations of mixed modes. We aim to measure the…

Stellar magnetic activity produces time-varying distortions in the photospheric line profiles of solar-type stars. These lead to systematic errors in high-precision radial-velocity measurements, which limit efforts to discover and measure…

In the context of the determination of stellar properties using asteroseismology, we study the influence of rotation and convective-core overshooting on the properties of red-giant stars. We used models in order to investigate the effects…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-14 Nadège Lagarde , Diego Bossini , Andrea Miglio , Mathieu Vrard , Benoit Mosser

The magnetic fields, activity and dynamos of young solar-type stars can be empirically studied using time-series of spectropolarimetric observations and tomographic imaging techniques such as Doppler imaging and Zeeman Doppler imaging. In…

Clear power excess in a frequency range typical for solar-type oscillations in red giants has been detected in more than 1000 stars, which have been observed during the first 138 days of the science operation of the NASA Kepler satellite.…

We use various method to extract surface rotation periods of Kepler targets exhibiting solar-like oscillations and compare their results.

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-21 T. Ceillier , R. A. Garcia , D. Salabert , S. Mathur

We study the distribution of the photometric rotation period (Prot), which is a direct measurement of the surface rotation at active latitudes, for three subsamples of Sun-like stars: one from CoRoT data and two from Kepler data. We…

The current photometric datasets, that span decades, allow for studying long-term cycles on active stars. Complementary Ca H&K observations give information also on the cycles of normal solar-like stars, which have significantly smaller,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-20 Heidi Korhonen