Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-08-29
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
4 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Conference Proceedings "Scientific Frontiers in Research on Extrasolar Planets", Drake Dreming
Scientific paper
Stellar micro-variability poses a serious threat to the capacities of space-based planet-finding missions such as Kepler or Eddington. The solar lightcurves obtained by the VIRGO PMO6 and SPM instruments on board SoHO from 1996 to 2001 have been studied in order to follow variability changes through the activity cycle. In all datasets, active regions-induced variability, below 2 microHz, is closely correlated to the BBSO Ca II K-line index. The PMO6 (total irradiance) data shows evidence for a meso-granulation component around tau = 8x10^3 s, while all narrow-band SPM datasets (red, green and blue) show super-granulation (tau = 5x10^4 s) but no meso-granulation. Both actvity and granulation related components have significantly smaller amplitudes in the red than in the blue channel. These results, coupled with available stellar data, allow us to generate simulated lightcurves with enhanced variability as a testbed for pre-processing and detection methods, and influence the case for using colour information in this kind of mission.
Aigrain Suzanne
Carpano S.
Favata Fabio
Gilmore Gerard
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