New type of pulsating star discovered
CEHW postdoc Zhao Guo’s research recently appeared in Nature Astronomy and a ECoS press release.
Image Caption: A new type of pulsating star whose brightness oscillates over only one of the star’s hemispheres has been discovered. The unusual behavior of the star was first noticed by citizen scientists inspecting data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The star is in a binary system and the gravitation pull of its companion star distorts its oscillations, according to an international team of astronomers. Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz (IAC)
