Periodicity & magnitude of Kepler LCs variation Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Mehrabi A.
  2. He H.
  3. Khosroshahi H.
  4. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

The variation of a stellar light curve owing to rotational modulation by magnetic features (starspots and faculae) on the star's surface can be used to investigate the magnetic properties of the host star. In this paper, we use the periodicity and magnitude of the light-curve variation as two proxies to study the stellar magnetic properties for a large sample of G-type main sequence Kepler targets, for which the rotation periods were recently determined. By analyzing the correlation between the two magnetic proxies, it is found that: (1) the two proxies are positively correlated for most of the stars in our sample, and the percentages of negative, zero, and positive correlations are 4.27%, 6.81%, and 88.91%, respectively; (2) negative correlation stars cannot have a large magnitude of light-curve variation; and (3) with the increase of rotation period, the relative number of positive correlation stars decreases and the negative correlation one increases. These results indicate that stars with shorter rotation period tend to have positive correlation between the two proxies, and a good portion of the positive correlation stars have a larger magnitude of light-curve variation (and hence more intense magnetic activities) than negative correlation stars.

Keywords
  1. g-stars
  2. photometry
  3. magnetic-fields
  4. stellar-masses
  5. stellar-radii
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2017ApJ...834..207M
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https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/834/207
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/834/207
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.18340207

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History

2017-08-18T12:05:23Z
Resource record created
2017-08-18T12:05:23Z
Created
2017-09-04T08:45:12Z
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