[Physics-grads-open] PASS talk Monday (Note different time and place)

[Pooyan Goodarzi]

Reminder: happening in ~2 hours.

On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 11:38 Pooyan Goodarzi <pooyan.goodarzi at email.ucr.edu>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
> Our next PASS talk will be on* Monday, November 3* by Tara. Please note
> that this *stellar* talk will be at a different time and place than our
> usuals. Please join us *from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm* in the* Conference
> Room* (PHYS 3051).
>
>
> *Tara Fetherolf, Postdoctoral Scholar*
> Monday, 11:00 am, Conference Room (PHYS 3051)
>
> *Stellar Variability: Star, Planet, and Galactic Connections*
>
>
> The shape and periodic nature of a star’s light curve can uncover
> important information about its intrinsic properties, including information
> about its magnetic activity, rotation, and potential stellar or planetary
> companions. Understanding stellar variability is especially critical for
> accurately constraining exoplanet properties and understanding how stars
> may affect planetary evolution. Stellar variability can also hide the
> presence of small exoplanets, such that constraining variability and
> finding exoplanets around variable stars is important for gaining a
> complete picture of exoplanet demographics. In order to understand the
> variability of stars across the sky, we developed the TESS Stellar
> Variability Catalog (TESS-SVC). The TESS-SVC contains ~84,000 stars that
> have been identified as being periodically variable (rotation, pulsation,
> eclipsing binaries, etc.) and has thus far been used for exoplanet
> confirmation, characterizing exoplanet host stars, and characterizing
> stellar activity and other types of variability. I will also discuss how we
> use the TESS-SVC to search for stellar activity cycles, investigate how
> exoplanets are impacted by active stars, and understand how variable stars
> may influence their Galactic environments.
>
>
>
> If you’re interested in sharing your work as a speaker, please feel free
> to add your name to this spreadsheet [Google Sheet
> <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1N3ncf43jdB6aHYHhyWmyHMycxDg4_phHZXLkQvviO0o/edit?usp=sharing>].
> Recordings of all the previous talks are available on our website:
> https://ucrpass.arxiv.social
>
>
> Best,
> Pooyan
> Physics and Astronomy Student Seminar (PASS)
> https://ucrpass.arxiv.social
>
>
>
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