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20122026
most citedSurface rotation and photometric activity for Kepler targets. II. G and F main-sequence stars, and cool subgiant stars

150 citations · 680 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

Luminaries in the Sky: The TESS LEGACY sample of bright stars. II. In-depth seismic characterisation of 32 naked-eye stars in the PLATO LOP fields

E. Panetier, G. T. Hookway, E. Corsaro +13

The NASA TESS mission is conducting a nearly full-sky survey, enabling the photometric characterisation of millions of stars. The forthcoming ESA PLATO mission will provide long-du…

astro-ph.SR2024

Measuring stellar surface rotation and activity with the PLATO mission -- I. Strategy and application to simulated light curves

S. N. Breton, A. F Lanza, S. Messina +20

The Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars mission (PLATO) will allow us to measure surface rotation and monitor photometric activity of tens of thousands of main sequence so…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 21 cited

Temporal variation of the photometric magnetic activity for the Sun and Kepler solar-like stars

A. R. G. Santos, S. Mathur, R. A. García +9

The photometric time series of solar-like stars can exhibit rotational modulation due to active regions co-rotating with the stellar surface, allowing us to constrain stellar rotat…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 12 cited

Study of Chemically Peculiar Stars-I : High-resolution Spectroscopy and K2 Photometry of Am Stars in the Region of M44

Santosh Joshi, Otto Trust, E. Semenko +30

We present a study based on the high-resolution spectroscopy and K2 space photometry of five chemically peculiar stars in the region of the open cluster M44. The analysis of the hi…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 35 cited

Detections of solar-like oscillations in dwarfs and subgiants with Kepler DR25 short-cadence data

S. Mathur, R. A. García, S. N. Breton +6

During the survey phase of the Kepler mission, several thousands of stars were observed in short cadence, allowing the detection of solar-like oscillations in more than 500 main-se…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 150 cited

Surface rotation and photometric activity for Kepler targets. II. G and F main-sequence stars, and cool subgiant stars

A. R. G. Santos, S. N. Breton, S. Mathur +1

Dark magnetic spots crossing the stellar disc lead to quasi-periodic brightness variations, which allow us to constrain stellar surface rotation and photometric activity. The curre…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 14 cited

On the relation between active-region lifetimes and the autocorrelation function of light curves

A. R. G. Santos, S. Mathur, R. A. García +2

Rotational modulation of stellar light curves due to dark spots encloses information on spot properties and, thus, on magnetic activity. In particular, the decay of the autocorrela…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 40 cited

A calibration of the Rossby number from asteroseismology

E. Corsaro, A. Bonanno, S. Mathur +4

Stellar activity and rotation are tightly related in a dynamo process. Our understanding of this mechanism is mainly limited by our capability of inferring the properties of stella…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 46 cited

Precise mass and radius of a transiting super-Earth planet orbiting the M dwarf TOI-1235: a planet in the radius gap?

P. Bluhm, R. Luque, N. Espinoza +78

We report the confirmation of a transiting planet around the bright, inactive M0.5 V star TOI-1235 (TYC 4384-1735-1, V = 11.5 mag), whose transit signal was detected in the photome…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 142 cited

Surface rotation and photometric activity for Kepler targets I. M and K main-sequence stars

A. R. G. Santos, R. A. García, S. Mathur +5

Brightness variations due to dark spots on the stellar surface encode information about stellar surface rotation and magnetic activity. In this work, we analyze the Kepler long-cad…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 19 cited

Signatures of magnetic activity: On the relation between stellar properties and p-mode frequency variations

A. R. G. Santos, T. L. Campante, W. J. Chaplin +12

In the Sun, the properties of acoustic modes are sensitive to changes in the magnetic activity. In particular, mode frequencies are observed to increase with increasing activity le…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 2 cited

Determining surface rotation periods of solar-like stars observed by the Kepler mission using machine learning techniques

S. N. Breton, L. Bugnet, A. R. G. Santos +4

For a solar-like star, the surface rotation evolves with time, allowing in principle to estimate the age of a star from its surface rotation period. Here we are interested in measu…

astro-ph.SR2018

Seismic signatures of magnetic activity in solar-type stars observed by Kepler

A. R. G. Santos, T. L. Campante, W. J. Chaplin +8

The properties of the acoustic modes are sensitive to magnetic activity. The unprecedented long-term Kepler photometry, thus, allows stellar magnetic cycles to be studied through a…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 48 cited

Signatures of magnetic activity in the seismic data of solar-type stars observed by Kepler

A. R. G. Santos, T. L. Campante, W. J. Chaplin +8

In the Sun, the frequencies of the acoustic modes are observed to vary in phase with the magnetic activity level. These frequency variations are expected to be common in solar-type…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 39 cited

Starspot signature on the light curve: Learning about the latitudinal distribution of spots

A. R. G. Santos, M. S. Cunha, P. P. Avelino +2

Quasi-periodic modulations of the stellar light curve may result from dark spots crossing the visible stellar disc. Due to differential rotation, spots at different latitudes gener…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 3 cited

A thorough analysis of the short- and mid-term activity-related variations in the solar acoustic frequencies

A. R. G. Santos, M. S. Cunha, P. P. Avelino +2

The frequencies of the solar acoustic oscillations vary over the activity cycle. The variations in other activity proxies are found to be well correlated with the variations in the…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 11 cited

On the contribution of sunspots to the observed frequency shifts of solar acoustic modes

A. R. G. Santos, M. S. Cunha, P. P. Avelino +2

Activity-related variations in the solar oscillation properties have been known for 30 years. However, the relative importance of the different contributions to the observed variat…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 77 cited

Spin-orbit alignment of exoplanet systems: ensemble analysis using asteroseismology

T. L. Campante, M. N. Lund, J. S. Kuszlewicz +23

The angle between a planet's orbital axis and the spin axis of its parent star is an important diagnostic of planet formation, migration, and tidal evolution. We seek empirical…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 15 cited

Spot cycle reconstruction: an empirical tool - Application to the sunspot cycle

A. R. G. Santos, M. S. Cunha, P. P. Avelino +1

The increasing interest in understanding stellar magnetic activity cycles is a strong motivation for the development of parameterized starspot models which can be constrained obser…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 6 cited

Asteroseismology and Magnetic Cycles

A. R. G. Santos, M. S. Cunha, J. J. G. Lima

Small cyclic variations in the frequencies of acoustic modes are expected to be a common phenomenon in solar-like pulsators, as a result of stellar magnetic activity cycles. The fr…