Search Results - "Saders, Jennifer L. van"
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Prospects for Galactic and stellar astrophysics with asteroseismology of giant stars in the TESS continuous viewing zones and beyond
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-04-2021)“…ABSTRACT The NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (NASA-TESS) mission presents a treasure trove for understanding the stars it observes and the Milky…”
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Revised Radii of Kepler Stars and Planets Using Gaia Data Release 2
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-10-2018)“…One bottleneck for the exploitation of data from the Kepler mission for stellar astrophysics and exoplanet research has been the lack of precise radii and…”
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Forward Modeling of the Kepler Stellar Rotation Period Distribution: Interpreting Periods from Mixed and Biased Stellar Populations
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-02-2019)“…Stellar surface rotation carries information about stellar parameters-particularly ages-and thus the large rotational data sets extracted from Kepler time…”
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Weakened magnetic braking as the origin of anomalously rapid rotation in old field stars
Published in Nature (London) (14-01-2016)“…The age of a young to middle-aged star can be determined from how quickly or slowly it rotates, but the relationship breaks down for old stars; models now show…”
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Chemical Evolution in the Milky Way: Rotation-based Ages for APOGEE-Kepler Cool Dwarf Stars
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-01-2020)“…We use models of stellar angular momentum evolution to determine ages for ∼500 stars in the APOGEE-Kepler Cool Dwarfs sample. We focus on lower-main-sequence…”
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Core-envelope Decoupling Drives Radial Shear Dynamos in Cool Stars
Published in Astrophysical journal. Letters (01-07-2023)“…Abstract Differential rotation is thought to be responsible for the dynamo process in stars like our Sun, driving magnetic activity and starspots. We report…”
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TESS Stellar Rotation up to 80 Days in the Southern Continuous Viewing Zone
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-02-2024)“…Abstract The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission delivers time-series photometry for millions of stars across the sky, offering a probe into…”
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Testing White Dwarf Age Estimates Using Wide Double White Dwarf Binaries from Gaia EDR3
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-08-2022)“…Abstract White dwarf (WD) stars evolve simply and predictably, making them reliable age indicators. However, self-consistent validation of the methods for…”
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Further Evidence of Modified Spin-down in Sun-like Stars: Pileups in the Temperature–Period Distribution
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-07-2022)“…Abstract We combine stellar surface rotation periods determined from NASA’s Kepler mission with spectroscopic temperatures to demonstrate the existence of…”
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The Origin of Weakened Magnetic Braking in Old Solar Analogs
Published in Astrophysical journal. Letters (01-07-2022)“…Abstract The rotation rates of main-sequence stars slow over time as they gradually lose angular momentum to their magnetized stellar winds. The rate of…”
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Is [Y/Mg] a Reliable Age Diagnostic for FGK Stars?
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-09-2022)“…Current spectroscopic surveys are producing large catalogs of chemical abundances for stars of all types. The yttrium-to-magnesium ratio, [Y/Mg], has emerged…”
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Stellar flares are far-ultraviolet luminous
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (05-08-2024)“…ABSTRACT We identify 182 flares on 158 stars within 100 pc of the Sun in both the near-ultraviolet (NUV; $1750\!-\!2750$ Å) and far-ultraviolet (FUV;…”
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A Test of Spectroscopic Age Estimates of White Dwarfs Using Wide WD+WD Binaries
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-07-2024)“…Abstract White dwarf stars have been used for decades as precise and accurate age indicators. This work presents a test of the reliability of white dwarf total…”
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Stellar Cruise Control: Weakened Magnetic Braking Leads to Sustained Rapid Rotation of Old Stars
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-02-2024)“…Abstract Despite a growing sample of precisely measured stellar rotation periods and ages, the strength of magnetic braking and the degree of departure from…”
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The Largest M Dwarf Flares from ASAS-SN
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-05-2019)“…The All-sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) is the only project in existence to scan the entire sky in optical light approximately every day,…”
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Erratum: “Testing White Dwarf Age Estimates Using Wide Double White Dwarf Binaries from Gaia EDR3” (2022, ApJ, 934, 148)
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TESS Asteroseismology of β Hydri: A Subgiant with a Born-again Dynamo
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-10-2024)“…Abstract The solar-type subgiant β Hyi has long been studied as an old analog of the Sun. Although the rotation period has never been measured directly, it was…”
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A New Asteroseismic Kepler Benchmark Constrains the Onset of Weakened Magnetic Braking in Mature Sun-like Stars
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-08-2024)“…Abstract Stellar spin down is a critical yet poorly understood component of stellar evolution. In particular, results from the Kepler Mission imply that mature…”
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Constraints on Magnetic Braking from the G8 Dwarf Stars 61 UMa and τ Cet
Published in Astrophysical journal. Letters (01-05-2023)“…Abstract During the first half of their main-sequence lifetimes, stars rapidly lose angular momentum to their magnetized winds, a process known as magnetic…”
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Statistics of the Chemical Composition of Solar Analog Stars and Links to Planet Formation
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-02-2021)“…The Sun has been found to be depleted in refractory (rock-forming) elements relative to nearby solar analogs, suggesting a potential indicator of planet…”
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