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We report the presence of a 106-day cycle in the radio variability of Sgr A* based on an analysis of data observed with the Very Large Array (VLA) over the past 20 years. The pulsed signal is most clearly seen at 1.3 cm with a ratio of…

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We study the brightness variations of galactic red supergiant stars using long-term visual light curves collected by the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) over the last century. The full sample contains 48 red…

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New Chandra High Resolution Camera pointings on the "non-coronal" red giant Arcturus (HD124897; $\alpha$ Boo: K1.5III) corroborate a tentative soft X-ray detection in a shorter exploratory exposure sixteen years earlier. The apparent source…

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Solar-like oscillations have now been observed in several stars, thanks to ground-based spectroscopic observations and space-borne photometry. CoRoT, which has been in orbit since December 2006, has observed the star HD49933 twice. The…

We present an analysis and interpretation of oscillation spectra for all 69 SX Phoenicis stars discovered in the field of the cluster. For most of the stars we have reliable absolute magnitudes and colors. Except of one, or perhaps two,…

Radial velocity observations of K giants have revealed periodic variations for some of the stars. The periods range from approximately 180 to 1000 or more days with velocity amplitudes ranging from approximately 50 m/s to 500 m/s. Except…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Saskia Hekker , Sabine Reffert , Andreas Quirrenbach

We derive a self-consistent set of atmospheric parameters and abundances of 17 elements for the red giant star Arcturus: Teff = 4286+/-30 K, logg = 1.66+/-0.05, and [Fe/H] = -0.52+/-0.04. The effective temperature was determined using model…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 I. Ramirez , C. Allende Prieto

It was recently discovered that the amplitudes of pulsating red giants and supergiants vary significantly on time scales of 20-30 pulsation periods. Here, we analyze the amplitude variability in 29 pulsating yellow supergiants (5 RVa, 4…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-30 John R. Percy , Rufina Y. -H. Kim

The first intensive photometric time-series of a Delta Scuti star was obtained from space. Theta2 Tau was monitored with the star camera on the Wide-Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE) satellite. Twelve independent frequencies were detected down…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ennio Poretti , D. Buzasi , R. Laher , J. Catanzarite , T. Conrow

Recent re-determination of stellar atmospheric parameters for a sample of stars observed during the {\it Kepler} mission allowed to enlarge the number of {\it Kepler} B-type stars. We present the detailed frequency analysis for all these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-19 Wojciech Szewczuk , Przemysław Walczak , Jadwiga Daszyńska-Daszkiewicz

White dwarfs are compact stars, similar in size to Earth but ~200,000 times more massive. Isolated white dwarfs emit most of their power from ultraviolet to near-infrared wavelengths, but when in close orbits with less dense stars, white…

We report on finding variations in amplitude of the two main oscillation frequencies found in the Be star Achernar, over a period of 5 years. They were uncovered by analysing photometric data of the star from the SMEI instrument. The two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 K. J. F. Goss , C. Karoff , W. J. Chaplin , Y. Elsworth , I. R. Stevens

We analyzed 64 radio observations at the frequency of 8.4 GHz of the Wolf-Rayet star WR 112, taken from the Very Large Array archive. These observations cover a time baseline of 13 years, from June 2000 to July 2013. The radio structure of…

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We report evidence for the granulation signal in the star Procyon A, based on two photometric time series from the star tracker on the WIRE satellite. The power spectra show evidence of excess power around 1 milliHz, consistent with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 H. Bruntt , H. Kjeldsen , D. L. Buzasi , T. R. Bedding

We describe Very Large Array observations of the extreme carbon star IRC+10216 at 8.4, 14.9, and 22.5 GHz made over a two year period. We find possible variability correlated with the infrared phase and a cm- to sub-millimeter wavelength…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. M. Menten , M. J. Reid , E. Kruegel , M. J. Claussen , R. Sahai

This paper presents the analysis of Doppler p-mode observations of the G2V star $\alpha$ Cen A obtained with the spectrograph CORALIE in May 2001. Thirteen nights of observations have made it possible to collect 1850 radial velocity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 F. Bouchy , F. Carrier

We report the detection of multi-periodic oscillations of the cool evolved star alpha Hya (HD 81797, K3II-III). Two-hundred and forty-three high-resolution spectra (R=48,000) of this star have been obtained in March and April 2005 with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Setiawan , P. Weise , M. Roth

Recent measurements of stellar orbits provide compelling evidence that the compact radio source Sagittarius A* at the Galactic Centre is a 3.6-million-solar-mass black hole. Sgr A* is remarkably faint in all wavebands other than the radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Genzel , R. Schoedel , T. Ott , A. Eckart , T. Alexander , F. Lacombe , D. Rouan , B. Aschenbach

AR Scorpii is unique amongst known white dwarf binaries in showing powerful pulsations extending to radio frequencies. Here we aim to investigate the multi-frequency radio emission of AR Sco in detail, in order to constrain its origin and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 E. R. Stanway , T. R. Marsh , P. Chote , B. T. Gaensicke , D. Steeghs , P. J. Wheatley

Bright features have been recently discovered by Dawn on Ceres, which extend previous photometric and Space Telescope observations. These features should produce distortions of the line profiles of the reflected solar spectrum and therefore…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 P. Molaro , A. F. Lanza , L. Monaco , F. Tosi , G. Lo Curto , M. Fulle , L. Pasquini