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Barry Smalley's Outputs (11)

Lamost Observations In The Kepler Field. I. Database Of Low-resolution Spectra (2015)
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De Cat, P., Fu, J., Ren, A., Yang, X., Shi, J., Luo, A., …Zhou, X. (2015). Lamost Observations In The Kepler Field. I. Database Of Low-resolution Spectra. Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 220(1), Article 19. https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/220/1/19

The nearly continuous light curves with micromagnitude precision provided by the space mission Kepler are revolutionizing our view of pulsating stars. They have revealed a vast sea of low-amplitude pulsation modes that were undetectable from Earth. T... Read More about Lamost Observations In The Kepler Field. I. Database Of Low-resolution Spectra.

λ Bootis stars in the SuperWASP survey (2015)
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Paunzen, E., Skarka, M., Walczak, P., Holdsworth, D., Smalley, B., West, R., & Janík, J. (2015). λ Bootis stars in the SuperWASP survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 453(2), 1241 -1248. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1652

We have analysed around 170 000 individual photometric WASP (Wide Angle Search for Planets) measurements of 15 well-established ? Bootis stars to search for variability. The ? Bootis stars are a small group of late-B to early-F, Pop I, stars that sho... Read More about λ Bootis stars in the SuperWASP survey.

KIC 4768731: a bright long-period roAp star in the Kepler field (2015)
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Smalley, B., Niemczura, E., Murphy, S., Lehmann, H., Kurtz, D., Holdsworth, D., …Uytterhoeven, K. (2015). KIC 4768731: a bright long-period roAp star in the Kepler field. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 452(4), 3334 - 3345. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1515

We report the identification of 61.45?d-1 (711.2 µHz) oscillations, with amplitudes of 62.6 µmag, in KIC 4768731 (HD 225914) using Kepler photometry. This relatively bright (V = 9.17) chemically peculiar star with spectral type A5 Vp SrCr(Eu) has pre... Read More about KIC 4768731: a bright long-period roAp star in the Kepler field.

Spectroscopic survey of Kepler stars.(a similar to...) I. HERMES/Mercator observations of A- and F-type stars (2015)
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Smalley. (2015). Spectroscopic survey of Kepler stars.(a similar to...) I. HERMES/Mercator observations of A- and F-type stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2764 -2783. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv528

The Kepler space mission provided near-continuous and high-precision photometry of about 207 000 stars, which can be used for asteroseismology. However, for successful seismic modeling it is equally important to have accurate stellar physical paramet... Read More about Spectroscopic survey of Kepler stars.(a similar to...) I. HERMES/Mercator observations of A- and F-type stars.

WASP-80b has a dayside within the T-dwarf range (2015)
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Maxted, Smalley, & Hellier. (2015). WASP-80b has a dayside within the T-dwarf range. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2279 -2290. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv706

WASP-80b is a missing link in the study of exoatmospheres. It falls between the warm Neptunes and the hot Jupiters and is amenable for characterization, thanks to its host star's properties. We observed the planet through transit and during occultati... Read More about WASP-80b has a dayside within the T-dwarf range.

Spectroscopically resolving the Algol triple system (2015)
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Kolbas, V., Pavlovski, K., Southworth, J., Lee, C., Lee, D., Lee, J., …Tkachenko, A. (2015). Spectroscopically resolving the Algol triple system. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 451(4), 4150 -4161. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1261

Algol (ß Persei) is the prototypical semidetached eclipsing binary and a hierarchical triple system. From 2006 to 2010 we obtained 121 high-resolution and high signal-to-noise ratio echelle spectra of this object. Spectral disentangling yields the in... Read More about Spectroscopically resolving the Algol triple system.

Precise mass and radius measurements for the components of the bright solar-type eclipsing binary star V1094 Tau (2015)
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Maxted, P., Hutcheon, R., Torres, G., Lacy, C., Southworth, J., Smalley, B., …Clausen, J. (2015). Precise mass and radius measurements for the components of the bright solar-type eclipsing binary star V1094 Tau. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 578, Article A25. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201525873

V1094 Tau is bright eclipsing binary star with an orbital period close to 9 days containing two stars similar to the Sun. Our aim is to test models of Sun-like stars using precise and accurate mass and radius measurements for both stars in V1094 Tau.... Read More about Precise mass and radius measurements for the components of the bright solar-type eclipsing binary star V1094 Tau.

WASP-20b and WASP-28b: a hot Saturn and a hot Jupiter in near-aligned orbits around solar-type stars (2015)
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Hellier, Smalley, & Maxted. (2015). WASP-20b and WASP-28b: a hot Saturn and a hot Jupiter in near-aligned orbits around solar-type stars. Astronomy & Astrophysics, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201423591

We report the discovery of the planets WASP-20b and WASP-28b along with measurements of their sky-projected orbital obliquities. WASP-20b is an inflated, Saturn-mass planet (0.31?MJup; 1.46?RJup) in a 4.9-day, near-aligned (? = 12.7 ± 4.2°) orbit aro... Read More about WASP-20b and WASP-28b: a hot Saturn and a hot Jupiter in near-aligned orbits around solar-type stars.

Spots on Am stars (2015)
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Balona, L., Catanzaro, G., Abedigamba, O., Ripepi, V., & Smalley, B. (2015). Spots on Am stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1378 - 1388. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv076

We investigate the light variations of 15 Am stars using four years of high-precision photometry from the Kepler spacecraft and an additional 14 Am stars from the K2 Campaign 0 field. We find that most of the Am stars in the Kepler field have light c... Read More about Spots on Am stars.

The well-aligned orbit of Wasp-84b: evidence for disk migration of a hot Jupiter (2015)
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Smalley, Hellier, & Maxted. (2015). The well-aligned orbit of Wasp-84b: evidence for disk migration of a hot Jupiter. Astrophysical Journal Letters, https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/800/1/L9

We report the sky-projected orbital obliquity (spin–orbit angle) of WASP-84 b, a 0.69${{M}_{{\rm Jup}}}$ planet in an 8.52 day orbit around a G9V/K0V star, to be ? = -0.3 ± 1.7°. We obtain a true obliquity of ? = 17.3 ± 7.7° from a measurement of the... Read More about The well-aligned orbit of Wasp-84b: evidence for disk migration of a hot Jupiter.

A search for non-pulsating, chemically normal stars in the delta Scuti instability strip using Kepler data (2015)
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Murphy, S. J., Bedding, T. R., Niemczura, E., Kurtz, D. W., & Smalley, B. (2015). A search for non-pulsating, chemically normal stars in the delta Scuti instability strip using Kepler data. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 447(4), 3948 -3959. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu2749

We identify stars in the d Sct instability strip that do not pulsate in p modes at the 50-µmag limit, using Kepler data. Spectral classification and abundance analyses from high-resolution spectroscopy allow us to identify chemically peculiar stars,... Read More about A search for non-pulsating, chemically normal stars in the delta Scuti instability strip using Kepler data.