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Holdsworth, DL and Smalley, B (2014) Rapidly varying A-type stars in the SuperWASP archive. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 9. 423- 424. ISSN 1743-9221
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The searches for transiting exoplanets have produced a vast amount of time-resolved photometric data of many millions of stars. One of the leading ground-based surveys is the SuperWASP project. We present the initial results of a survey of over 1.5 million A-type stars in the search for high frequency pulsations using SuperWASP photometry. We are able to detect pulsations down to the 0.5 mmag level in the broad-band photometry. This has enabled the discovery of several rapidly oscillating Ap stars and over 200 δ Scuti stars with frequencies above 50 d−1, and at least one pulsating sdB star. Such a large number of results allows us to statistically study the frequency overlap between roAp and δ Scuti stars and probe to higher frequency regimes with existing data.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | surveys; asteroseismology; techniques:photometric; stars:chemically peculiar; stars:variables:roAp; stars:variables:scuti |
Subjects: | Q Science > QB Astronomy |
Divisions: | Faculty of Natural Sciences > School of Chemical and Physical Sciences |
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Depositing User: | Symplectic |
Date Deposited: | 14 Jul 2016 07:44 |
Last Modified: | 09 Mar 2020 12:00 |
URI: | https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/2020 |