New Suns in the Cosmos II: Differential rotation in Kepler Sun-like stars

Abstract

The present study reports the discovery of Sun-like stars, namely main-sequence stars with $T_{\mathrm{eff}}$, $\log g$ and rotation periods $P_{rot}$ similar to solar values, presenting evidence of surface differential rotation. An autocorrelation of the time series was used to select stars presenting photometric signal stability from a sample of 881 stars with light curves collected by the $Kepler$ space-borne telescope, in which we have identified 17 stars with stable signals. A simple two-spot model together with a Bayesian information criterion were applied to these stars in the search for indications of differential rotation; in addition, for all 17 stars, it was possible to compute the spot rotation period $P$, the mean values of the individual spot rotation periods and their respective colatitudes, and the relative amplitude of the differential rotation.

arXiv comment9 pages, 5 figures, Accepted for publication on MNRAS

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