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most citedThe weird and the wonderful in our Solar System: Searching for serendipity in the Legacy Survey of Space and Time

8 citations · 14 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.SR2026

Searching for Stellar Activity Cycles using Flares II: The TESS CVZ

Tobin M. Wainer, Holland M. Stuart, Guadalupe Tovar Mendoza +3

Magnetic activity cycles provide a fundamental constraint on stellar dynamos, but remain difficult to identify beyond the Sun. However, recent studies have shown that flares offer…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

Gaia-GIC-1: An Evolving Catastrophic Planetesimal Collision Candidate

Anastasios Tzanidakis, James R. A. Davenport

We report the discovery of the optical dipper and low-luminosity infrared stellar transient Gaia20ehk (hereafter, Gaia-GIC-1), which is currently undergoing high-amplitude variabil…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 1 cited

Gas-depleted planet formation occurred in the four-planet system around the red dwarf LHS 1903

Thomas G. Wilson, Anna M. Simpson, Andrew Collier Cameron +173

Small exoplanet radii show two populations, referred to as super-Earths and sub-Neptunes, separated by a gap known as the radius valley. This may be produced by the removal of atmo…

astro-ph.SR2025

First Temperature Profile of a Stellar Flare using Differential Chromatic Refraction

Riley Clarke, Federica Bianco, James R. A. Davenport +5

We present the first derivation of a stellar flare temperature profile from single-band photometry. Stellar flare DWF030225.574-545707.45129 was detected in 2015 by the Dark Energy…

astro-ph.SR2024

Searching for Stellar Activity Cycles using Flares: The Short and Long Timescale Activity Variations of TIC-272272592

Tobin M. Wainer, James R. A. Davenport, Guadalupe Tovar Mendoza +2

We examine 4 years of Kepler 30-min data, and 5 Sectors of TESS 2-min data for the dM3 star KIC-8507979/TIC-272272592. This rapidly rotating (P=1.2 day) star has previously been id…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 3 cited

Detecting stellar flares in photometric data using hidden Markov models

J. Arturo Esquivel, Yunyi Shen, Vianey Leos-Barajas +5

We present a hidden Markov model (HMM) for discovering stellar flares in light curve data of stars. HMMs provide a framework to model time series data that are not stationary; they…

astro-ph.SR2024

A Multiwavelength Survey of Nearby M dwarfs: Optical and Near-Ultraviolet Flares and Activity with Contemporaneous TESS, Kepler/K2, \textit{Swift}, and HST Observations

Rishi R. Paudel, Thomas Barclay, Allison Youngblood +14

We present a comprehensive multiwavelength investigation into flares and activity in nearby M~dwarf stars. We leverage the most extensive contemporaneous dataset obtained through t…

astro-ph.IM2024

Searching the SN 1987A SETI Ellipsoid with TESS

Bárbara Cabrales, James R. A. Davenport, Sofia Z. Sheikh +4

The SETI Ellipsoid is a strategy for technosignature candidate selection which assumes that extraterrestrial civilizations who have observed a galactic-scale event -- such as super…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

Every Datapoint Counts: Stellar Flares as a Case Study of Atmosphere Aided Studies of Transients in the LSST Era

Riley W. Clarke, James R. A. Davenport, John Gizis +8

Due to their short timescale, stellar flares are a challenging target for the most modern synoptic sky surveys. The upcoming Vera C. Rubin Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), a…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 8 cited

The weird and the wonderful in our Solar System: Searching for serendipity in the Legacy Survey of Space and Time

Brian Rogers, Chris J. Lintott, Steve Croft +2

We present a novel method for anomaly detection in Solar System object data, in preparation for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time. We train a deep autoencoder for anomaly detecti…