Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Feb 2003
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003a%26a...399..717h&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.399, p.717-721 (2003)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Sun: Rotation, Stars: Rotation, Methods: Data Analysis
Scientific paper
Future space projects like KEPLER will deliver a vast quantity of high precision light curves of stars. This paper describes a test concerning the observability of rotation and even differential rotation of slowly rotating stars from such data. Two published light curves of solar total irradiance measures are investigated: the Nimbus-7 Earth Radiation Budget (ERB) observations between 1978 and 1993 and the Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor I (ACRIM I) measurements between 1980 and 1989. Light curve analysis show that oscillations on time-scales comparable to solar rotation but of a complex pattern are visible. Neither Fourier analysis nor time-frequency Wavelet analysis yield the true rotation period during the more active phases of the solar cycle. The true rotation period dominates only for a short time during solar minimum. In the light of this study even space-born broad band photometry may turn out an inappropriate instrument to study stellar butterfly diagrams of stars rotating as slow as the Sun. However, it was shown in Papers I and II of this series that chromospheric tracers like Lyman alpha , Mg II h+k and CaII H+K are appropriate instruments to perform this task.
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