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STRESS – STEREO TRansiting Exoplanet and Stellar Survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

Vinothini Sangaralingam
Affiliation:
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK. email: vs@star.sr.bham.ac.uk
Ian R. Stevens
Affiliation:
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK.
Steve Spreckley
Affiliation:
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK.
Jonas Debosscher
Affiliation:
Instituut voor Sterrenkunde, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.
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Abstract

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The Heliospheric Imager (HI) instruments on board the two STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) spacecraft provides an excellent opportunity for space based stellar photometry. The HI instruments provide a wide area coverage (20° × 20° for the two HI-1 instruments and 70° × 70° for the two HI-2 instruments) and long continuous periods of observations (20 days and 70 days respectively). Using HI-1A which has a pass band of 6500Å to 7500Å and a cadence of 40 minutes, we have gathered photometric information for more than a million stars brighter than 12th magnitude for a period of two years. Here we present some early results from this study on a range of variable stars and the future prospects for the data.

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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2010

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