Asteroseismology across the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram

DW Kurtz - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Asteroseismology has grown from its beginnings three decades ago to a mature field
teeming with discoveries and applications. This phenomenal growth has been enabled by …

Space-based photometry of binary stars: From Voyager to TESS

J Southworth - Universe, 2021 - mdpi.com
Binary stars are crucial laboratories for stellar physics, so have been photometric targets for
space missions beginning with the very first orbiting telescope (OAO-2) launched in 1968 …

TESS Eclipsing Binary Stars. I. Short-cadence Observations of 4584 Eclipsing Binaries in Sectors 1–26

A Prša, A Kochoska, KE Conroy, N Eisner… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper we present a catalog of 4584 eclipsing binaries observed during the first two
years (26 sectors) of the TESS survey. We discuss selection criteria for eclipsing binary …

Gaia-derived luminosities of Kepler A/F stars and the pulsator fraction across the δ Scuti instability strip

SJ Murphy, D Hey, T Van Reeth… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We study the fraction of stars in and around the δ Scuti instability strip that are pulsating,
using Gaia DR2 parallaxes to derive precise luminosities. We classify a sample of over 15 …

Wide post-common envelope binaries containing ultramassive white dwarfs: evidence for efficient envelope ejection in massive asymptotic giant branch stars

N Yamaguchi, K El-Badry, J Fuller… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Post-common envelope binaries (PCEBs) containing a white dwarf (WD) and a main-
sequence (MS) star can constrain the physics of common envelope evolution and calibrate …

Amplitude modulation in δ Sct stars: statistics from an ensemble study of Kepler targets

DM Bowman, DW Kurtz, M Breger… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We present the results of a search for amplitude modulation of pulsation modes in 983 δ Sct
stars, which have effective temperatures between 6400≤ T eff≤ 10 000 K in the Kepler …

Finding binaries from phase modulation of pulsating stars with Kepler: V. Orbital parameters, with eccentricity and mass-ratio distributions of 341 new binaries

SJ Murphy, M Moe, DW Kurtz… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The orbital parameters of binaries at intermediate periods (102–103 d) are difficult to
measure with conventional methods and are very incomplete. We have undertaken a new …

A search for rotation periods in 1000 TESS objects of interest

BLC Martins, RL Gomes, YS Messias… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The high-quality light curves from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) represent
a unique laboratory for the study of stellar rotation, which is a fundamental observable …

Probing the physics in the core boundary layers of the double-lined B-type binary KIC 4930889 from its gravito-inertial modes

M Michielsen, T Van Reeth, A Tkachenko… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. Stellar evolution models of B-type stars are still uncertain in terms of internal mixing
properties, notably in the area between the convective core and the radiative envelope. This …

The astrophysics of visible-light orbital phase curves in the space age

A Shporer - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The field of visible-light continuous time series photometry is now at its golden age,
manifested by the continuum of past (CoRoT, Kepler), present (K2), and future (TESS …