The Kepler characterization of the variability among A-and F-type stars-I. General overview

K Uytterhoeven, A Moya, A Grigahcène… - Astronomy & …, 2011 - aanda.org
Context. The Kepler spacecraft is providing time series of photometric data with
micromagnitude precision for hundreds of AF type stars. Aims. We present a first general …

Highlights of Discoveries for δ Scuti Variable Stars From the Kepler Era

JA Guzik - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The NASA Kepler and follow-on K2 mission (2009–2018) left a legacy of data and
discoveries, finding thousands of exoplanets, and also obtaining high-precision long time …

gyre: an open-source stellar oscillation code based on a new Magnus Multiple Shooting scheme

RHD Townsend, SA Teitler - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
We present a new oscillation code, gyre, which solves the stellar pulsation equations (both
adiabatic and non-adiabatic) using a novel Magnus Multiple Shooting numerical scheme …

Kepler mission design, realized photometric performance, and early science

DG Koch, WJ Borucki, G Basri… - The Astrophysical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The Kepler Mission, launched on 2009 March 6, was designed with the explicit
capability to detect Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of solar-like stars using the …

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 …

The first view of δ Scuti and γ Doradus stars with the TESS mission

V Antoci, MS Cunha, DM Bowman… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present the first asteroseismic results for δ Scuti and γ Doradus stars observed in
Sectors 1 and 2 of the TESS mission. We utilize the 2-min cadence TESS data for a sample …

Preparation of Kepler light curves for asteroseismic analyses

RA García, S Hekker, D Stello… - Monthly Notices of …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
The Kepler mission is providing photometric data of exquisite quality for the asteroseismic
study of different classes of pulsating stars. These analyses place particular demands on the …

Characterizing the observational properties of δ Sct stars in the era of space photometry from the Kepler mission

DM Bowman, DW Kurtz - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The δ Sct stars are a diverse group of intermediate-mass pulsating stars located on and near
the main sequence within the classical instability strip in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram …

Asteroseismic measurement of slow, nearly uniform surface-to-core rotation in the main-sequence F star KIC 9244992

H Saio, DW Kurtz, M Takata… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We have found a rotationally split series of core g-mode triplets and surface p-mode
multiplets in a main-sequence F star, KIC 9244992. Comparison with models shows that the …

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 …