Spot parameters on KIC solar-type stars Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Namekata K.
  2. Maehara H.
  3. Notsu Y.
  4. Toriumi S.
  5. Hayakawa H.
  6. Ikuta K.,Notsu S.
  7. Honda S.
  8. Nogami D.
  9. Shibata K.
  10. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Active solar-type stars show large quasi-periodic brightness variations caused by stellar rotation with star spots, and the amplitude changes as the spots emerge and decay. The Kepler data are suitable for investigations of the emergence and decay processes of star spots, which are important to understand the underlying stellar dynamo and stellar flares. In this study, we measured the temporal evolution of the star-spot area with Kepler data by tracing the local minima of the light curves. In this analysis, we extracted the temporal evolution of star spots showing clear emergence and decay without being disturbed by stellar differential rotation. We applied this method to 5356 active solar-type stars observed by Kepler and obtained temporal evolution of 56 individual star spots. We calculated the lifetimes and emergence/decay rates of the star spots from the obtained temporal evolution of the spot area. As a result, we found that the lifetimes (T) of star spots range from 10 to 350days when the spot areas (A) are 0.1%-2.3% of the solar hemisphere. We also compared them with sunspot lifetimes and found that the lifetimes of star spots are much shorter than those extrapolated from an empirical relation of sunspots (T{propto}A), while being consistent with other research on star-spot lifetimes. The emergence and decay rates of star spots are typically 5x10^20^Mx/hr (8MSH/hr) with an area of 0.1%-2.3% of the solar hemisphere and mostly consistent with those expected from sunspots, which may indicate the same underlying processes.

Keywords
  1. g-stars
  2. stellar-radii
  3. magnetic-fields
  4. effective-temperature
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2019ApJ...871..187N
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doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.18710187

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History

2020-04-21T13:12:53Z
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2020-04-21T13:12:53Z
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2020-05-19T10:17:30Z
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