The MOST Asteroseismology Mission: Ultraprecise Photometry from Space

By G. Walker, J. Matthews, R. Kuschnig, R. Johnson, S. Rucinski, J. Pazder, G. Burley, A. Walker, K. Skaret, R. Zee and 5 more. 2003

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Instrumentation

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WATER, METHANE, AND CARBON DIOXIDE PRESENT IN THE DAYSIDE SPECTRUM OF THE EXOPLANET HD 209458b (2009, methodology): “To add an additional constraint to any possible orbit-to-orbit brightness changes, we arranged for contemporaneous, highprecision, visible photometry using the Micro-variability and Oscillations of Stars (MOST) satellite (Walker et al. 2003).”
GYRE: An open-source stellar oscillation code based on a new Magnus Multiple Shooting Scheme (2013, background): “Over the past decade there have been three satellite missions with specific asteroseismic objectives: MOST (Walker et al. 2003; Matthews 2007), launched in 2003; CoRoT (Michel et al. 2008; Baglin et al. 2009), launched in 2006; and Kepler (Borucki et al. 2009; Gilliland et al. 2010; Kjeldsen et al. ”
Catalog of Galactic β Cephei Stars (2005, background): “The first dedicated asteroseismology satellite, Canada’s MOST (Matthews et al. 2000; Walker et al. 2003), was launched successfully in 2003 June and is returning valuable data on variable stars.”
The Kepler characterization of the variability among A- and F-type stars I. General overview (2011, background): “First demonstrations of the strength and innovative characte of space data with respect to seismic studies of A-F type stars are the detection of two hybridγDor-δSct stars by the MOST satellite (HD 114839, King et al. 2006; BD+18-4914, Rowe et al. 2006), and the detection of an impressive number of ”
SigSpec - I. Frequency- and Phase-Resolved Significance in Fourier Space (2007, background): “Even for frequencies close to 14.2 d−1 – corresponding to the orbital period of the satellite (101.4min; Walker et al. 2003) – the spectral significance varies with frequency and phase by only≈ 0.1 %.”
Hot Jupiters and Hot Spots: The Short- and Long-Term Chromospheric Activity on Stars with Giant Planets (2004, methodology): “Table 2 of Walker et al. (2003a) lists the five CFHT program stars plus τ Ceti, including their U magnitudes, exposure times, and typical S/N. 1IRAF is distributed by the National Optical Astronomy Observatories, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc.…”
Determining global parameters of the oscillations of solar-like stars (2009, background): “…Explorer, Bruntt et al. 2005), the Canadian satellite MOST (Microvariability and Oscillations of STars, Article published by EDP Sciences Page 1 of 13 Walker et al. 2003), and the French-European-Brazilian mission CoRoT (Convection, Rotation and planetary Transits, see e.g. Michel et al. 2008).”
PHYSICS OF ECLIPSING BINARIES. II. TOWARD THE INCREASED MODEL FIDELITY (2016, background): “This decade has provided us with a range of ground-breaking surveys and missions: MOST (Walker et al. 2003), CoRoT (Baglin 2003), Kepler (Borucki et al. 2010), Pan-Starrs (Kaiser et al. 2002), Gaia (de Bruijne 2012), and LSST (Tyson & LSST 2002), to name just a few.”
CHARACTERIZING K2 PLANET DISCOVERIES: A SUPER-EARTH TRANSITING THE BRIGHT K DWARF HIP 116454 (2014, methodology): “MOST After detecting the K2 transit, we obtained follow–up photometric observations with the Microvariability and Oscillations of STars (MOST, Walker et al. 2003) space telescope, during August and September of 2014.”
Stellar activity of planetary host star HD 189 733 (2008, methodology): “7, HD 189733 displayed∼1% variations in flux that were most likely due to starspot modulation over∼2.5 rotation cycles of the star in optical light during theMOST observations.”
A SUPER-EARTH TRANSITING A NAKED-EYE STAR (2011, unknown): “OBSERVATIONS We observed 55 Cnc withMOST(Microvariability & Oscillations of STars), a Canadian microsatellite equipped with a 15 cm telescope and CCD photometer, capable of shortcadence, long-duration ultraprecise optical photometry of bright stars (Walker et al. 2003, Matthews et al. 2004).”
The Very Low Albedo of an Extrasolar Planet: MOST Space-based Photometry of HD 209458 (2007, methodology): “MOST PHOTOMETRY TheMOST satellite (Walker et al. 2003;Matthews et al. 2004) houses a 15 cm optical telescope feeding a CCD photometer through a single custom broadband (400Y700 nm) filter.”
BRITE-Constellation: Nanosatellites for Precision Photometry of Bright Stars (2013, background): “The ground station used to communicate with UniBRITE from Toronto (SFL) is the same as that used for MOST and two other already orbiting nanosatellites.”