A-F type variable stars from Kepler

The hybrid candidate stars cover the entire region between 6200K and the blue edge of the ground-based {delta} Sct instability strip. None of our candidate stars are hotter than the hot edge of the ground-based {delta} Sct instability strip. Our discoveries, coupled with the work of others, show that Kepler has discovered over 2000 {gamma} Dor, {delta} Sct, and hybrid star candidates in the 116 square degree Kepler field of view.

We found relatively few variable stars fainter than magnitude 15, which may be because they are far enough away to lie between spiral arms in our Galaxy, where there would be fewer stars.