THE REFERENCE/READING LIST IS STILL BEING DEVELOPED. Variable Stars -------------- Sterken & Jaschek "Light curves of variable stars, a pictorial atlas" (for appreciation of the non-precision photometry variable zoo) http://www.aavso.org/vstar/types.shtml (more general variable stars) http://kepler.nasa.gov/sci/basis/variability.html (low amplitude variability in solar-type stars) Seismology ------------ Christensen-Dalsgaard, et al. 1996, Science, 272, 1286 Brown, Gilliland, 1996, ARAA, 32, 37 Metcalfe, 2008, astro-ph/0808.3136 Peijpers, "Methods in Helio- and Asteroseismology" (detailed theory) http://astro.phys.au.dk/KASC/seismology/seism.html and http://astro.phys.au.dk/KASC/seismology/seism.html#plot http://www.iac.es/proyecto/sismologia/ http://whitedwarf.org/research/asteroseismology/index.html http://whitedwarf.org/education/vis/index.html Bruntt et al. 2006 Bruntt et al. 2009 arXiv:0903.3967 (results from the WIRE satellite) Rotation --------- Tassoul, "Rotation of Stars" (theory) Mamajek & Hillenbrand 2008 (obserations of solar-type stars) Lacerda et al 2008 (KBO's) http://72.211.247.58:800/observatory/asteroid/rotation.html Eclipses and Transits --------------------- http://kepler.nasa.gov/sci/basis/character.html http://kepler.nasa.gov/sci/basis/sizes.html (transit basics) Deeg, 1997 Deeg, 1998 Winn, Holman, Roussova 2009 (1-3mmag ==> 0.6 mmag) http://www.midnightkite.com/binstar.html (starlight.pro) oklo.org (laughlin blog) transitsearch.org (candidates from other techniques) Precision Photometry Techniques -------------------------------- Young et al. 1991, PASP 103, 221 (precision photometry) Everett & Howell, 2001, PASP, 113, 1428 (optical precision) Gilliland et al. 1993, AJ, 106, 2441 Gilliland et al. 2000, ApJL, 545, 47 (even higher optical precision) Blake et al. 2008, PASP, 120, 860 (infrared precision) Kjeldsen & Frandsen, 1992, PASP, 104, 413 (differential photometry techniques and limitations) Irwin et al, 2007, MNRAS, 375, 1449 (image subtraction) Christensen-Daalsgard lecture notes (section 2.2 on fourier analysis) http://kepler.nasa.gov/sci/basis/diffphot.html http://kepler.nasa.gov/sci/basis/simulation.html Technology ------------ Pollacco et al. 2006, PASP, 118, 1407 (superwasp) Howell & Tonry 1993 (OTA's) Results from Surveys -------------------- Hartman et al 2004, AJ, 128, 1761 (HAT) Latham et al. 2009, ApJ, (HAT followup) O'Donovan et al. 2006, ApJ, 644, 1237 (false positives)