Recurrent starspot activity and differential rotation in KIC 11560447
arXiv:1711.08949 · doi:10.1093/mnras/stx3053
Abstract
We present a detailed analysis of surface inhomogeneities on the K1-type sub-giant component of the rapidly rotating eclipsing binary KIC 11560447, using high-precision Kepler light curves spanning nearly four years, corresponding to about 2800 orbital revolutions. We precisely determine the system parameters using high-resolution spectra from the 2.1-m Otto Struve Telescope at the McDonald Observatory. We apply the maximum entropy method to reconstruct the relative longitudinal spot occupancy. Our numerical tests show that the procedure can recover large-scale random distributions of individually unresolved spots, and can track the phase migration of up to three major spot clusters. By determining the drift rates of various spotted regions in orbital longitude, we suggest a way to constrain surface differential rotation and show that the results are consistent with periodograms. The K1IV star exhibits two mildly preferred longitudes of emergence, indications of solar-like differential rotation, and a 0.5 to 1.3-year recurrence period in starspot emergence, accompanied by a secular increase in the axisymmetric component of spot occupancy.
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