KIC 9451096: Magnetic activity, flares and differential rotation

2017/09/04 by Özdarcan, Orkun, Yoldaş, Ezgi, Dal, Hasan Ali
#FOS: Physical sciences #Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1709.01129

Abstract

We present spectroscopic and photometric analysis of KIC 9451096, where the latter is based on very high precision long cadence photometry obtained by Kepler space craft. Combined spectroscopic and photometric modeling show that the system is a detached eclipsing binary in a circular orbit and composed of F5V + K2V components. Subtracting the best--fit light curve model from whole long cadence data reveals additional low (mmag) amplitude light variation in time and occasional flares, suggesting low, but still remarkable level of magnetic spot activity on the K2V component. Analyzing rotational modulation of light curve residuals enables us to estimate differential rotation coefficient of the K2V component as k = 0.069 ± 0.008, which is 3 times weaker compared with the solar value of k = 0.19, assuming a solar type differential rotation. We find stellar flare activity frequency for K2V component as 0.000368411 h^-1 indicating low magnetic activity level.

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