Magnetic activity analysis for a sample of G-type main sequence \emph{Kepler} targets

Abstract

The variation of a stellar light curve owing to the rotational modulation by the magnetic features (starspots and faculae) on the star's surface can be used to investigate the magnetic properties of the host star. In this paper, we use the periodicity and magnitude of the light-curve variation, as two proxies, suggested by (He et al. 2015), to study the stellar magnetic properties for a large sample of G-type main sequence \emph{Kepler} targets, for which the rotation periods recently determined by (McQuillan et al. 2014). By analyzing the correlation between the two magnetic proxies, it is found that: (1) The two proxies are positively correlated for most of the stars in our sample, and the percentages of negative, zero, and positive correlation are $4.27\%$, $6.81\%$, and $88.91\%$, respectively; (2) Negative correlation stars cannot have large magnitude of light-curve variation; (3) with the increase of rotation period, the relative number of positive correlation stars decreases and the negative correlation one increases. These results indicate that the stars with shorter rotation period tend to have positive correlation between the two proxies, and a good portion of the positive correlation stars have larger magnitude of light-curve variation (and hence more intense magnetic activities) than the negative correlation stars.

Accepted for publication in ApJ

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