A study of pulsation & rotation in a sample of A-K type stars in the Kepler field

We present the results of time-series photometric analysis of 15106 A-K type stars observed by the Kepler space mission. We identified 513 new rotational variables and measured their starspot rotation periods as a function of spectral type and discuss the distribution of their amplitudes. We examined the well-established period-color relationship that applies to stars of spectral types F5-K for all of these rotational variables and, interestingly, found that a similar period-color relationship appears to extend to stars of spectral types A7 to early-F too. This result is not consistent with the very foundation of the period-color relationship. We have characterized 350 new non-radial pulsating variables such as A- and F-type candidate [Formula: see text] Scuti, [Formula: see text] Doradus and hybrid stars, which increases the known candidate non-radial pulsators in the Kepler field significantly, by ∼20%. The relationship between two recently constructed observables, [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] , was also studied for the large sample of non-radial pulsators, which shows that the distribution in the logarithm of [Formula: see text] ([Formula: see text] ) can be used as a potential tool to distinguish between the non-radial pulsators, to some extent. Through visual inspection of the light curves and their corresponding frequency spectra, we found 23 new candidate red giant solar-like oscillators not previously reported in the literature. The basic physical parameters such as masses, radii and luminosities of these solar-like oscillators were also derived using asteroseismic relations. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s10509-018-3480-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.