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History of Astronomy in Australia: Big-Impact Astronomy from World War II until the Lunar Landing (1945–1969)

Galaxies, 2021
Radio astronomy commenced in earnest after World War II, with Australia keenly engaged through the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. At this juncture, Australia’s Commonwealth Solar Observatory expanded its portfolio from primarily studying
Alister W. Graham, Katherine H. Kenyon, Lochlan J. Bull, Visura C. Lokuge Don, Kazuki Kuhlmann   +4 more
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Lithium in Turnoff Stars in the Globular Cluster M5: A Quest for Primordial Lithium

The Astrophysical Journal, 2023
The light element lithium is formed by nucleosynthesis during the Big Bang. Its abundance can help to define the parameters of the early Universe. To find this primordial value, it is necessary to determine Li abundances in the oldest stars because it is
Ann Merchant Boesgaard, Constantine P. Deliyannis   +1 more
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Hot super-Earths stripped by their host stars

Nature Communications, 2016
Theory predicts a deficit of super-Earth sized planets, which orbit close to their host star. Here, Lundkvist et al. use data from the NASA Kepler mission to show that this deficit is also seen in observations, thereby providing new insight into ...
M. S. Lundkvist, H. Kjeldsen, S. Albrecht, G. R. Davies, S. Basu, D. Huber, A. B. Justesen, C. Karoff, V. Silva Aguirre, V. Van Eylen, C. Vang, T. Arentoft, T. Barclay, T. R. Bedding, T. L. Campante, W. J. Chaplin, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, Y. P. Elsworth, R. L. Gilliland, R. Handberg, S. Hekker, S. D. Kawaler, M. N. Lund, T. S. Metcalfe, A. Miglio, J. F. Rowe, D. Stello, B. Tingley, T. R. White   +28 more
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What asteroseismology can do for exoplanets

EPJ Web of Conferences, 2015
We describe three useful applications of asteroseismology in the context of exoplanet science: (1) the detailed characterisation of exoplanet host stars; (2) the measurement of stellar inclinations; and (3) the determination of orbital eccentricity from ...
Van Eylen Vincent, Lund Mikkel N., Silva Aguirre Victor, Arentoft Torben, Kjeldsen Hans, Albrecht Simon, Chaplin William J., Isaacson Howard, Pedersen May G., Jessen-Hansen Jens, Tingley Brandon, Christensen-Dalsgaard Jørgen, Aerts Conny, Campante Tiago L., Bryson Steve T.   +14 more
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The γ Dor stars as revealed by Kepler: A key to reveal deep-layer rotation in A and F stars

EPJ Web of Conferences, 2017
The γ Dor pulsating stars present high-order gravity modes, which make them important targets in the intermediate-and low-mass main-sequence region of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. Whilst we have only access to rotation in the envelope of the Sun, the
Salmon S. J. A. J., Ouazzani R.-M., Antoci V., Bedding T. R., Murphy S. J.   +4 more
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Light Curve Analyses of the Eclipsing Binaries in the Small Magellan Cloud [PDF]

Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2008
Large survey observations such as the EROS, the MACHO and the OGLE projects have discovered a large number of eclipsing binaries in the extra galaxies and published their light curves.
Young-Woon Kang
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Unveiling the Structure and Dynamics of Red Giants With Asteroseismology

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2020
The Kepler mission observed many thousands of red giants. The long time series, some as long as the mission itself, have allowed us to study red giants with unprecedented detail. Given that red giants are intrinsically luminous, and hence can be observed
Sarbani Basu, Saskia Hekker, Saskia Hekker   +2 more
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Finding non-eclipsing binaries through pulsational phase modulation

EPJ Web of Conferences, 2015
We present a method for finding binaries among pulsating stars that were observed by the Kepler Mission. We use entire four-year light curves to accurately measure the frequencies of the strongest pulsation modes, then track the pulsation phases at those
Murphy Simon J., Bedding Timothy R., Shibahashi Hiromoto, Kurtz Donald W., Kjeldsen Hans   +4 more
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KOI-3158: The oldest known system of terrestrial-size planets

EPJ Web of Conferences, 2015
The first discoveries of exoplanets around Sun-like stars have fueled efforts to find ever smaller worlds evocative of Earth and other terrestrial planets in the Solar System. While gas-giant planets appear to form preferentially around metal-rich stars,
Campante T. L., Barclay T., Swift J. J., Huber D., Adibekyan V. Zh., Cochran W., Burke C. J., Isaacson H., Quintana E. V., Davies G. R., Silva Aguirre V., Ragozzine D., Riddle R., Baranec C., Basu S., Chaplin W. J., Christensen-Dalsgaard J., Metcalfe T. S., Bedding T. R., Handberg R., Stello D., Brewer J. M., Hekker S., Karoff C., Kolbl R., Law N. M., Lundkvist M., Miglio A., Rowe J. F., Santos N. C., Van Laerhoven C., Arentoft T., Elsworth Y. P., Fischer D. A., Kawaler S. D., Kjeldsen H., Lund M. N., Marcy G. W., Sousa S. G., Sozzetti A., White T. R.   +40 more
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Optical Polarimetry in Undergraduate Education [PDF]

EPJ Web of Conferences, 2019
Polarimetry plays an important part in observational astronomy, but it is all too often given limited attention in astronomy textbooks. Coupled with a sometimes confusing mathematical introduction, students may feel that polarization is a difficult ...
Topasna Gregory
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