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Kepler Flares III: Stellar Activity on GJ 1245 A and B by Lurie, John C.; Davenport, James R. A.; Hawley, Suzanne L.; Wilkinson, Tessa D.; Wisniewski, John P.; Kowalski, Adam F.; Hebb, Leslie is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

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We present the flare occurrence rates and starspot evolution for GJ 1245 A and B, two active M5 stars, based on nine months of Kepler short cadence observations, and four years of nearly continuous long cadence observations. The A component is separated from the B component by 7 arcseconds, and the stars are not resolved in the Kepler pipeline processing due to Kepler's large plate scale of 4 arcseconds/pixel. Analyzing the target pixel data, we have generated separate light curves for components A and B using the PyKE pixel response function modeling procedures, and note the effects of CCD saturation and non-linear response to high energy flares. In our sample, GJ 1245A and B exhibit an average of 3.0 and 2.6 flares per day, respectively. We introduce a new metric, $L_{fl}/L_{\mathrm{Kp}}$, to compare the flare rates between stars, and discuss this in the context of GJ 1245 A and B. Both stars exhibit starspot features that evolve on long time scales, with the slower rotating B component showing evidence of differential rotation. Intriguingly, the angular separation between the A and B component photocenters decreases during the four years of observations in a manner consistent wi

Author

Lurie, John C.; Davenport, James R. A.; Hawley, Suzanne L.; Wilkinson, Tessa D.; Wisniewski, John P.; Kowalski, Adam F.; Hebb, Leslie

Published

2014

Language

EN