From PanSTARRS Candidates to New RR Lyraes in the K2 Mission

TL;DR

This paper reports the discovery of 35 new RR Lyrae stars by crossmatching PanSTARRS data with K2 photometry, demonstrating a technique that also identifies eclipsing binaries.

Contribution

Introduces a novel crossmatching method between PanSTARRS and K2 data to discover new RR Lyrae stars and other variable types.

Findings

Discovered 35 new RR Lyrae variables.

The technique also detects eclipsing binaries.

Validated candidates through crossmatching.

Abstract

In this paper we report the discovery of 35 new RR Lyrae variables. These stars were found by a special searching technique. We crossmatched the catalog of the PanSTARRS (PS) sky survey with K2 space photometry data to the validate candidates. It turns out that this technique can find eclipsing binaries as well.