• Outliers : multicolour photometry guiding the search for evolved binary systems in the globular cluster 47Tucanae 

      Campos, Fabíola; Pelisoli, Ingrid Domingos; Kamann, Sebastian; Husser, Tim Oliver; Dreizler, Stefan; Bellini, Andrea; Robinson, E.L.; Nardiello, Domenico; Piotto, Giampaolo; Kepler, Souza Oliveira; Istrate, Alina G.; Winget, Donald Earl; Montgomery, Michael Houston; Dotter, Aaron Loveren (2018) [Artigo de periódico]
      We use Hubble Space Telescope multicolour photometry of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae to uncover a population of 24 objects with no previous classification that are outliers from the single-star model tracks in the ...
    • Spectroscopic binaries in the Solar Twin Planet Search program : from substellar–mass to M dwarf companions 

      Santos, Leonardo Augusto Gonçalves dos; Meléndez, Jorge; Bedell, Megan; Bean, Jacob L.; Spina, Lorenzo; Alves-Brito, Alan; Dreizler, Stefan; Ramírez, Iván; Asplund, Martin (2017) [Artigo de periódico]
      Previous studies on the rotation of Sun-like stars revealed that the rotational rates of young stars converge towards a well-defined evolution that follows a power-law decay. It seems, however, that some binary stars do ...
    • The chemical homogeneity of sun-like stars in the solar neighborhood 

      Bedell, Megan; Bean, Jacob L.; Meléndez, Jorge; Spina, Lorenzo; Ramírez, Iván; Asplund, Martin; Alves-Brito, Alan; Santos, Leonardo Augusto Gonçalves dos; Dreizler, Stefan; Yong, David; Monroe, TalaWanda Rose; Casagrande, Luca (2018) [Artigo de periódico]
      The compositions of stars are a critical diagnostic tool for many topics in astronomy such as the evolution of our Galaxy, the formation of planets, and the uniqueness of the Sun. Previous spectroscopic measurements indicate ...
    • The everchanging pulsating white dwarf GD358 

      Kepler, Souza Oliveira; Nather, R. Edward; Winget, Donald Earl; Nitta, Atsuko; Kleinman, Scot James; Metcalfe, Travis S.; Sekiguchi, Kazuhiro; Jiang, Xiaojun; Sullivan, Denis J.; Sullivan, Terry; Janulis, Rimvydas; Meistas, Edmundas G.; Kalytis, Romualdas; Krzesinski, Jerzy; Ogloza, Waldemar; Zola, Staszek; O'Donoghue, Darragh; Romero-Colmenero, Encarni; Martinez, Peter; Dreizler, Stefan; Deetjen, Jochen L.; Nagel, Thorsten; Schuh, Sonja L.; Vauclair, Gérard; Fu, Jianning Ning; Chevreton, Michel; Solheim, Jan-Eric; Gonzalez Perez, Jose Miguel; Johannessen, F.; Kanaan Neto, Antonio Nemer; Costa, Jose Eduardo da Silveira; Costa, Alex Fabiano Murillo da; Wood, Matthew A.; Silvestri, Nicole M.; Ahrens, T.J.; Jones, Aaron Kyle; Collins, A.E.; Boyer, M.; Shaw, James Scott; Mukadam, Anjum Shagufta; Klumpe, Eric W.; Larrison, Jesse; Kawaler, Steven D.; Riddle, Reed L.; Ulla, Ana; Bradley, Paul A. (2003) [Artigo de periódico]
      We report 323 hours of nearly uninterrupted time series photometric observations of the DBV star GD 358 acquired with the Whole Earth Telescope (WET) during May 23rd to June 8th, 2000. We acquired more than 232 000 independent ...
    • The pulsation modes of the pre-white dwarf PG 1159-035 

      Costa, Jose Eduardo da Silveira; Kepler, Souza Oliveira; Winget, Donald Earl; O'Brien, M. Sean; Kawaler, Steven D.; Costa, Alex Fabiano Murillo da; Giovannini Junior, Odilon; Kanaan Neto, Antonio Nemer; Mukadam, Anjum Shagufta; Mullally, Fergal; Nitta, Atsuko; Provencal, Judith L.; Shipman, Harry L.; Wood, Matthew A.; Ahrens, T.J.; Grauer, Albert D.; Kilic, Mukremin; Bradley, Paul A.; Sekiguchi, Kazuhiro; Crowe, Richard A.; Jiang, Xiaojun; Sullivan, Denis J.; Sullivan, Terry; Rosen, Rachel; Clemens, J. Christopher; Janulis, Rimvydas; O'Donoghue, Darragh; Ogloza, Waldemar; Baran, Andrzej; Silvotti, Roberto; Marinoni, S.; Vauclair, Gérard; Dolez, Noël; Chevreton, Michel; Dreizler, Stefan; Schuh, Sonja L.; Deetjen, Jochen L.; Nagel, Thorsten; Solheim, Jan-Eric; Gonzalez Perez, Jose Miguel; Ulla, Ana; Barstow, Martin A.; Burleigh, Matt; Good, Simon A.; Metcalfe, Travis S.; Kim, Seung-Lee; Lee, H.; Sergeev, A.; Akan, Mustafa Can; Cakirli, Ö; Paparo, Margit; Virághalmy, Géza; Ashoka, B.N.; Handler, Gerald; Hürkal, Özlem; Johannessen, F.; Kleinman, Scot James; Kalytis, Romualdas; Krzesinski, Jerzy; Klumpe, Eric W.; Larrison, Jesse; Lawrence, T.; Meistas, Edmundas G.; Martinez, Peter; Nather, R. Edward; Fu, Jianning Ning; Pakstiene, Erika; Rosen, R.; Romero-Colmenero, Encarni; Riddle, Reed L.; Seetha, S.; Silvestri, Nicole M.; Vuckovic, Maja; Warner, B.; Zola, Staszek; Althaus, Leandro Gabriel; Córsico, Alejandro Hugo; Montgomery, Michael Houston (2008) [Artigo de periódico]
      Context. PG 1159-035, a pre-white dwarf with Teff ~_140 000 K, is the prototype of both two classes: the PG 1159 spectroscopic class and the DOV pulsating class. Previous studies of PG 1159-035 photometric data obtained ...
    • The solar twin planet search I. Fundamental parameters of the stellar sample 

      Ramírez, Iván; Meléndez, Jorge; Bean, Jacob L.; Asplund, Martin; Bedell, Megan; Monroe, TalaWanda Rose; Casagrande, Luca; Schirbel, Lucas Alexandre; Dreizler, Stefan; Teske, Johanna K.; Maia, Marcelo Tucci; Alves-Brito, Alan; Baumann, P. (2014) [Artigo de periódico]
      Context. We are carrying out a search for planets around a sample of solar twin stars using the HARPS spectrograph. The goal of this project is to exploit the advantage offered by solar twins to obtain chemical abundances ...
    • The solar twin planet search II. A Jupiter twin around a solar twin 

      Bedell, Megan; Meléndez, Jorge; Bean, Jacob L.; Ramírez, Iván; Asplund, Martin; Alves-Brito, Alan; Casagrande, Luca; Dreizler, Stefan; Monroe, TalaWanda Rose; Spina, Lorenzo; Maia, Marcelo Tucci (2015) [Artigo de periódico]
      Context. With high-precision radial velocity surveys reaching a su ciently long time baseline, the domain of long-period planet detections has recently opened up. The search for Jupiter-like planets is especially important ...
    • The solar twin planet search : IV. The Sun as a typical rotator and evidence for a new rotational braking law for Sun-like stars 

      Santos, Leonardo Augusto Gonçalves dos; Meléndez, Jorge; Nascimento Júnior, José Dias do; Bedell, Megan; Ramírez, Iván; Bean, Jacob L.; Asplund, Martin; Spina, Lorenzo; Dreizler, Stefan; Alves-Brito, Alan; Casagrande, Luca (2016) [Artigo de periódico]
      Context. It is still unclear how common the Sun is when compared to other similar stars in regards to some of its physical properties, such as rotation. Considering that gyrochronology relations are widely used today to ...
    • The solar twin planet search : the age-chromospheric activity relation 

      Lorenzo-Oliveira, Diego; Freitas, Fabrício Catani de; Meléndez, Jorge; Bedell, Megan; Ramírez, Iván; Bean, Jacob L.; Asplund, Martin; Spina, Lorenzo; Dreizler, Stefan; Alves-Brito, Alan; Casagrande, Luca (2018) [Artigo de periódico]
      Context. It is well known that the magnetic activity of solar-type stars decreases with age, but it is widely debated in the literature whether there is a smooth decline or if there is an early sharp drop until 1–2 Gyr ...
    • The solar twin planet search : V. close-in, low-mass planet candidates and evidence of planet accretion in the solar twin HIP 68468 

      Meléndez, Jorge; Bedell, Megan; Bean, Jacob L.; Ramírez, Iván; Asplund, Martin; Dreizler, Stefan; Yan, Hong Liang; Shi, Jianrong; Lind, Karin; Ferraz-Mello, Sylvio; Galarza, Jhon Joel Yana; Santos, Leonardo Augusto Gonçalves dos; Spina, Lorenzo; Maia, Marcelo Tucci; Alves-Brito, Alan; Monroe, TalaWanda Rose; Casagrande, Luca (2017) [Artigo de periódico]
      Context. More than two thousand exoplanets have been discovered to date. Of these, only a small fraction have been detected around solar twins, which are key stars because we can obtain accurate elemental abundances ...
    • The temporal evolution of neutron-capture elements in the Galactic discs 

      Spina, Lorenzo; Meléndez, Jorge; Karakas, Amanda I.; Santos, Leonardo Augusto Gonçalves dos; Bedell, Megan; Asplund, Martin; Ramírez, Iván; Yong, David; Alves-Brito, Alan; Bean, Jacob L.; Dreizler, Stefan (2018) [Artigo de periódico]
      Important insights into the formation and evolution of the Galactic disc(s) are contained in the chemical compositions of stars.We analysed high-resolution and high signal-to-noise HARPS spectra of 79 solar twin stars in ...
    • Thorium in solar twins : implications for habitability in rocky planets 

      Botelho, Rafael Bueno; Milone, André de Castro; Meléndez, Jorge; Bedell, Megan; Spina, Lorenzo; Asplund, Martin; Santos, Leonardo Augusto Gonçalves dos; Bean, Jacob L.; Ramírez, Iván; Yong, David; Dreizler, Stefan; Alves-Brito, Alan; Galarza, Jhon Joel Yana (2019) [Artigo de periódico]
      We have investigated the thorium (Th) abundance in a sample of 53 thin disc solar twins covering a wide range of ages. These data provide constrains on the mantle energy budget of terrestrial planets that can be formed ...
    • A Whole Earth Telescope campaign on the pulsating subdwarf B binary system PG 1336-018 (NY Vir) 

      Kilkenny, Dave; Reed, M. D.; O'Donoghue, Darragh; Kawaler, Steven D.; Mukadam, Anjum Shagufta; Kleinman, Scot James; Nitta, Atsuko; Metcalfe, Travis S.; Provencal, Judith L.; Watson, Todd K.; Sullivan, Denis J.; Sullivan, Terry; Shobbrook, Robert R.; Jiang, Xiaojun; Joshi, Santosh; Ashoka, B.N.; Seetha, S.; Leibowitz, Elia M.; Ibbetson, Peter A.; Mendelson, Haim; Meistas, Edmundas G.; Kalytis, Romualdas; Alisauskas, Darius; Martinez, Peter; Van Wyk, Francois; Stobie, Robert S.; Marang, Fred; Zola, Staszek; Krzesinski, Jerzy; Ogloza, Waldemar; Moskalik, Pawel; Silvotti, Roberto; Piccioni, Adalberto; Vauclair, Gérard; Dolez, Noël; Chevreton, Michel; Dreizler, Stefan; Schuh, Sonja L.; Deetjen, Jochen L.; Solheim, Jan-Eric; Gonzalez Perez, Jose Miguel; Ulla, Ana; Ostensen, Roy; Manteiga, Minia; Suarez, Olga; Burleigh, Matt; Kepler, Souza Oliveira; Kanaan Neto, Antonio Nemer; Giovannini Junior, Odilon (2003) [Artigo de periódico]
      We present results from a multisite (‘Whole Earth Telescope’) photometric campaign on PG 1336−018, the close eclipsing binary system containing a pulsating subdwarf B (sdB) star. The main part of the campaign (1999 April) ...
    • Whole Earth Telescope observations of BPM 37093 : a seismological test of crystallization theory in white dwarfs 

      Kanaan Neto, Antonio Nemer; Nitta, Atsuko; Winget, Donald Earl; Kepler, Souza Oliveira; Montgomery, Michael Houston; Metcalfe, Travis S.; Oliveira, H.; Fraga, Luciano; Costa, Alex Fabiano Murillo da; Costa, Jose Eduardo da Silveira; Castanheira, Bárbara Garcia; Giovannini Junior, Odilon; Nather, R. Edward; Mukadam, Anjum Shagufta; Kawaler, Steven D.; O'Brien, M. Sean; Reed, M. D.; Kleinman, Scot James; Provencal, Judith L.; Watson, Todd K.; Kilkenny, Dave; Sullivan, Denis J.; Sullivan, Terry; Shobbrook, Bob; Jiang, Xiaojun; Ashoka, B.N.; Seetha, S.; Leibowitz, Elia M.; Ibbetson, Peter A.; Mendelson, Haim; Meistas, Edmundas G.; Kalytis, Romualdas; Alisauskas, Darius; O'Donoghue, Darragh; Buckley, David A.H.; Martinez, Peter; Van Wyk, Francois; Stobie, Robert S.; Marang, Fred; Van Zyl, L.; Ogloza, Waldemar; Krzesinski, Jerzy; Zola, Staszek; Moskalik, Pawel; Breger, M.; Stankov, A.; Silvotti, Roberto; Piccioni, Adalberto; Vauclair, Gérard; Dolez, Noël; Chevreton, Michel; Deetjen, Jochen L.; Dreizler, Stefan; Schuh, Sonja L.; Gonzalez Perez, Jose Miguel; Ostensen, Roy; Ulla, Ana; Manteiga, Minia; Suarez, Olga; Burleigh, Matt; Barstow, Martin A. (2005) [Artigo de periódico]
      BPM 37093 is the only hydrogen-atmosphere white dwarf currently known which has sufficient mass (~1.1 Mʘ) to theoretically crystallize while still inside the ZZ Ceti instability strip (Teff ~ 12 000 K). As a consequence, ...