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Stellar rotation is a fundamental parameter governing a star's magnetic activity and evolution. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) provides high-precision photometric data ideal for measuring rotation periods via brightness…

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Precise physical properties of the known transiting exoplanets are essential for their precise atmospheric characterization using modern and upcoming instruments. Leveraging the large volume of high SNR photometric follow-up data from TESS,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-25 Suman Saha

The relative brightnesses of strongly lensed quasar images, called flux ratios, respond to perturbations from low-mass dark matter halos, enabling tests of dark matter models. The quasar narrow-line region (NLR) is ideal for flux-ratio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-27 Maria F. Perez Mendoza , Anna M. Nierenberg , Vardha N. Bennert

We have identified nearly a hundred close triply eclipsing hierarchical triple star systems from data taken with the space telescope TESS. These systems are noteworthy in that we can potentially determine their dynamical and astrophysical…

The recently launched NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission is going to collect lightcurves for a few hundred million of stars and we expect to increase the number of pulsating stars to analyze compared to the few…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-30 L. Bugnet , R. A. García , G. R. Davies , S. Mathur , O. J. Hall , B. M. Rendle

We present a systematic analysis of high-cadence optical light curves of the non-blazar AGN PKS~0521$-$36 obtained with \textit{TESS} across three sectors: Sectors~5 and~6 (Cycle~1, 30~min cadence) and Sector~32 (Cycle~3, 10~min cadence).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-24 Sikandar Akbar , Zahir Shah

Temporal variations of apparent magnitude, called light curves, are observational statistics of interest captured by telescopes over long periods of time. Light curves afford the exploration of Space Domain Awareness (SDA) objectives such…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-01 Imène R. Goumiri , Alec M. Dunton , Amanda L. Muyskens , Benjamin W. Priest , Robert E. Armstrong

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has a goal of detecting small planets orbiting stars bright enough for mass determination via ground-based radial velocity observations. Here we present estimates of how many exoplanets the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Thomas Barclay , Joshua Pepper , Elisa V. Quintana

The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) provides long baseline (${\sim}4$ yrs) light curves for sources brighter than V$\lesssim17$ mag across the whole sky. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has started to…

We present the first analysis of Cepheid stars observed by the TESS space mission in Sectors 1 to 5. Our sample consists of 25 pulsators: ten fundamental mode, three overtone and two double-mode classical Cepheids, plus three Type II and…

Since the end of 2018, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has provided stellar photometry to the astronomical community. We have used TESS data to study rotational modulation in the light curves of a sample of chemically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 O. Kobzar , V. Khalack , D. Bohlender , G. Mathys , M. E. Shultz , D. M. Bowman , E. Paunzen , C. Lovekin , A. David-Uraz , J. Sikora , P. Lampens , O. Richard

Accurate limb-darkening models are needed for accurate characterisation of eclipsing binary stars and transiting exoplanets from the analysis of their light curves. The limb-darkening observed in solar-type stars from the analysis of light…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-14 Jay Fitzpatrick , Pierre F. L. Maxted , Alix V. Freckelton , Amuary H. M. J. Triaud , David V. Martin , Alison Duck

Accurate masses and radii for normal stars derived from observations of detached eclipsing binary stars are of fundamental importance for testing stellar models and may be useful for calibrating free parameters in these model if the masses…

We describe the preliminary results of a ground-based observing campaign aimed at building a grid of approximately 200 spectro-photometric standard stars (SPSS), with an internal $\simeq 1$\% accuracy (and sub-percent precision), tied to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-23 Nicoletta Sanna , Elena Pancino , Giuseppe Altavilla , Silvia Marinoni , Monica Rainer

We analyze a set of 89 Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) that have both optical and near-infrared (NIR) photometry to derive distances and construct low redshift ($z < 0.04$) Hubble diagrams. We construct mean light curve (LC) templates using a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Arturo Avelino , Andrew S. Friedman , Kaisey S. Mandel , David O. Jones , Peter J. Challis , Robert P. Kirshner

High-resolution spectroscopic measurements of OB stars are important for understanding processes like stellar evolution, but require labor-intensive observations. In contrast, photometric missions like the Transiting Exoplanet Survey…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Rachel C. Zhang , Kaze W. K. Wong , Gonzalo Holgado , Matteo Cantiello

We report on 15 years of VLA monitoring of the gravitational lens B0957+561 at 6 cm. Since our last report in 1992, there have been 32 additional observations, in which both images have returned to their quiescent flux density levels and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Deborah B. Haarsma , Jacqueline N. Hewitt , Joseph Lehár , Bernard F. Burke

Photometry of stars from the K2 extension of NASA's Kepler mission is afflicted by systematic effects caused by small (few-pixel) drifts in the telescope pointing and other spacecraft issues. We present a method for searching K2 light…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Daniel Foreman-Mackey , Benjamin T. Montet , David W. Hogg , Timothy D. Morton , Dun Wang , Bernhard Schölkopf

We present a prediction of the transiting exoplanet yield of the TESS primary mission, in order to guide follow-up observations and science projects utilizing TESS discoveries. Our new simulations differ from previous work by using (1) an…