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astro-ph.SR2015★ 59 cited

Polarimetry of the superluminous supernova LSQ14mo: no evidence for significant deviations from spherical symmetry

Giorgos Leloudas, Ferdinando Patat, Justyn R. Maund +10

We present the first polarimetric observations of a Type I superluminous supernova (SLSN). LSQ14mo was observed with VLT/FORS2 at five different epochs in the V band, with the obse…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 7 cited

Towards 21st Century Stellar Models: Star Clusters, Supercomputing, and Asteroseismology

S. W. Campbell, T. N. Constantino, V. D'Orazi +8

Stellar models provide a vital basis for many aspects of astronomy and astrophysics. Recent advances in observational astronomy -- through asteroseismology, precision photometry, h…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 12 cited

Asteroseismic age determination for dwarfs and giants

V. Silva Aguirre, A. M. Serenelli

Asteroseismology can make a substantial contribution to our understanding of the formation history and evolution of our Galaxy by providing precisely determined stellar properties…

astro-ph.SR2015

New systemic radial velocities of suspected RR Lyrae binary stars

Elisabeth Guggenberger, Thomas G. Barnes, Katrien Kolenberg

Among the tens of thousands of known RR Lyrae stars there are only a handful that show indications of possible binarity. The question why this is the case is still unsolved, and ha…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 23 cited

Spitzer Microlensing Program as a Probe for Globular Cluster Planets. Analysis of OGLE-2015-BLG-0448

Radosław Poleski, Wei Zhu, Grant W. Christie +83

The microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-0448 was observed by Spitzer and lay within the tidal radius of the globular cluster NGC 6558. The event had moderate magnification and was int…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 311 cited

The K2 Ecliptic Plane Input Catalog (EPIC) and Stellar Classifications of 138,600 Targets in Campaigns 1-8

Daniel Huber, Stephen T. Bryson, Michael R. Haas +6

The K2 Mission uses the Kepler spacecraft to obtain high-precision photometry over ~80 day campaigns in the ecliptic plane. The Ecliptic Plane Input Catalog (EPIC) provides coordin…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 111 cited

UBVRIz Light Curves of 51 Type II Supernovae

Lluís Galbany, Mario Hamuy, Mark M. Phillips +34

We present a compilation of UBV RIz light curves of 51 type II supernovae discovered during the course of four different surveys during 1986 to 2003: the Cerro Tololo Supernova Sur…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 261 cited

Red giant masses and ages derived from carbon and nitrogen abundances

Marie Martig, Morgan Fouesneau, Hans-Walter Rix +7

We show that the masses of red giant stars can be well predicted from their photospheric carbon and nitrogen abundances, in conjunction with their spectroscopic stellar labels log…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 114 cited

The role of binaries in the enrichment of the early Galactic halo. II. Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars - CEMP-no stars

T. T. Hansen, J. Andersen, B. Nordström +4

The detailed composition of most metal-poor halo stars has been found to be very uniform. However, a fraction of 20-70% (increasing with decreasing metallicity) exhibit dramatic en…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 62 cited

Abundances of carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars as constraints on their formation

C. J. Hansen, B. Nordstroem, T. T. Hansen +6

An increasing fraction of carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) stars is found as their iron abundance, [Fe/H], decreases below [Fe/H] = -2.0. The CEMP-s stars have the highest absolut…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 96 cited

Internal rotation of the red-giant star KIC 4448777 by means of asteroseismic inversion

M . P. Di Mauro, R. Ventura, D. Cardini +13

In this paper we study the dynamics of the stellar interior of the early red-giant star KIC 4448777 by asteroseismic inversion of 14 splittings of the dipole mixed modes obtained f…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 35 cited

Non-LTE analysis of copper abundances for the two distinct halo populations in the solar neighborhood

H. L. Yan, J. R. Shi, P. E. Nissen +1

Two distinct halo populations were found in the solar neighborhood by a series of works. They can be clearly separated by [alpha\Fe] and several other elemental abundance ratios in…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 154 cited

Oscillation frequencies for 35 \Kepler solar-type planet-hosting stars using Bayesian techniques and machine learning

G. R. Davies, V. Silva Aguirre, T. R. Bedding +16

\Kepler has revolutionised our understanding of both exoplanets and their host stars. Asteroseismology is a valuable tool in the characterisation of stars and \Kepler is an excelle…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 14 cited

On the LSP3 estimates of surface gravity for LAMOST-Kepler stars with asteroseismic measurements

Juan-Juan Ren, Xiao-Wei Liu, Mao-Sheng Xiang +13

Asteroseismology allows for deriving precise values of surface gravity of stars. The accurate asteroseismic determinations now available for large number of stars in the Kepler fie…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 23 cited

EPIC 201585823, a rare triple-mode RR Lyrae star discovered in K2 mission data

Donald W. Kurtz, Dominic M. Bowman, Simon J. Ebo +3

We have discovered a new, rare triple-mode RR Lyr star, EPIC 201585823, in the Kepler K2 mission Campaign 1 data. This star pulsates primarily in the fundamental and first-overtone…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 184 cited

Asteroseismology Can Reveal Strong Internal Magnetic Fields in Red Giant Stars

Jim Fuller, Matteo Cantiello, Dennis Stello +2

Internal stellar magnetic fields are inaccessible to direct observations and little is known about their amplitude, geometry and evolution. We demonstrate that strong magnetic fiel…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 15 cited

HE 0017+0055 : A probable pulsating CEMP-rs star and long-period binary

A. Jorissen, T. Hansen, S. Van Eck +6

A radial-velocity monitoring of the Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor (CEMP) star HE 0017+0055 over 8 years with the Nordic Optical Telescope and Mercator telescopes reveals variability w…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 107 cited

Binary properties of CH and Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor stars

A. Jorissen, S. Van Eck, H. Van Winckel +8

The HERMES spectrograph installed on the 1.2-m Mercator telescope has been used to monitor the radial velocity of 13 low-metallicity carbon stars, among which 7 Carbon-Enhanced Met…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 54 cited

Mass Measurements of Isolated Objects from Space-based Microlensing

Wei Zhu, S. Calchi Novati, A. Gould +78

We report on the mass and distance measurements of two single-lens events from the 2015 \emph{Spitzer} microlensing campaign. With both finite-source effect and microlens parallax…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 58 cited

KIC 10080943: An eccentric binary system containing two pressure- and gravity-mode hybrid pulsators

V. S. Schmid, A. Tkachenko, C. Aerts +14

Gamma Doradus and delta Scuti pulsators cover the transition region between low mass and massive main-sequence stars, and as such, are critical for testing stellar models. When the…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 10 cited

On the current solar magnetic activity in the light of its behaviour during the Holocene

F. Inceoglu, R. Simoniello, M. F. Knudsen +3

Solar modulation potential (SMP) reconstructions based on cosmogenic nuclide records reflect changes in the open solar magnetic field and can therefore help us obtain information o…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 48 cited

The role of binaries in the enrichment of the early Galactic halo. I. r-process-enhanced metal-poor stars

T. T. Hansen, J. Andersen, B. Nordstrøm +3

The detailed chemical composition of most metal-poor halo stars has been found to be highly uniform, but a minority of stars exhibit dramatic enhancements in their abundances of he…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 63 cited

KIC 10080943: a binary star with two Doradus/ Scuti hybrid pulsators. Analysis of the g modes

M. A. Keen, T. R. Bedding, S. J. Murphy +5

We use four years of Kepler photometry to study the non-eclipsing spectroscopic binary KIC 10080943. We find both components to be Doradus/ Scuti hybrids, which pulsate in b…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 72 cited

Observational - relation for Sct stars using eclipsing binaries and space photometry

Antonio García Hernández, Susana Martín-Ruiz, Mário J. P. F. G. Monteiro +4

Delta Scuti ( Sct) stars are intermediate-mass pulsators, whose intrinsic oscillations have been studied for decades. However, modelling their pulsations remains a real theoreti…