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3203颗开普勒星光度活动周期的证据

Evidence for photometric activity cycles in 3203 Kepler stars

Timo Reinhold, Robert H. Cameron, Laurent Gizon

摘要:

近年来,恒星活动周期的长度被认为是由恒星自转速率决定的。观察到循环周期沿所谓的活动和非活动序列随旋转周期增加。在这张照片中,太阳在两个序列之间占据了一个孤独的位置。我们的目标是利用四年的开普勒数据测量恒星光变曲线振幅和自转周期的周期变化。光变曲线振幅或恒星自转周期的周期性变化与一个潜在的活动周期有关。使用McQuillan等人2014年的样本,我们计算每个开普勒季度的旋转周期和变化幅度,并搜索两个时间序列的周期变化。为了测试每个恒星时间序列的周期性,我们考虑Lomb-Scargle周期图,并使用基于虚警概率(FAP)的选择。我们检测到3203颗恒星的振幅周期在0.5-6年之间,涵盖1-40天之间的旋转周期。考虑到我们的样本量为23,601颗恒星,并且我们的选择标准是FAP小于5%,这个数字几乎是纯噪声的三倍。我们没有检测到的旋转周期超出预期的噪音。我们的测量结果表明,循环周期显示出一个弱的依赖于旋转速率,稍微增加了较长的旋转周期。我们进一步表明,变异的形状偏离纯正弦曲线,与太阳活动周期的观测结果一致。我们的测量不支持存在不同的序列在P_rot-P_cyc平面,虽然有一些证据的非活动序列的旋转周期之间的5-25天。不幸的是,总的观测时间太短,无法得出与太阳活动周期相似的活动周期的合理结论。

英文摘要:

In recent years it has been claimed that the length of stellar activity cycles is determined by the stellar rotation rate. It is observed that the cycle period increases with rotation period along the so-called active and inactive sequences. In this picture the Sun occupies a solitary position in between the two sequences. Our goal is to measure cyclic variations of the stellar light curve amplitude and the rotation period using four years of Kepler data. Periodic changes of the light curve amplitude or the stellar rotation period are associated with an underlying activity cycle. Using the McQuillan et al. 2014 sample we compute the rotation period and the variability amplitude for each Kepler quarter and search for periodic variations of both time series. To test for periodicity in each stellar time series we consider Lomb-Scargle periodograms and use a selection based on a False Alarm Probability (FAP). We detect amplitude periodicities in 3203 stars between 0.5-6 years covering rotation periods between 1-40 days. Given our sample size of 23,601 stars and our selection criteria that the FAP is less than 5%, this number is almost three times higher than that expected from pure noise. We do not detect periodicities in the rotation period beyond those expected from noise. Our measurements reveal that the cycle period shows a weak dependence on rotation rate, slightly increasing for longer rotation period. We further show that the shape of the variability deviates from a pure sine curve, consistent with observations of the solar cycle. Our measurements do not support the existence of distinct sequences in the P_rot-P_cyc plane, although there is some evidence for the inactive sequence for rotation periods between 5-25 days. Unfortunately, the total observing time is too short to draw sound conclusions on activity cycles with similar length as the solar cycle.

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