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Stellar rotation period inference with Gaussian processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2016

Ruth Angus
Affiliation:
Subdepartment of Astrophysics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UKruth.angus@astro.ox.ac.uk, suzanne.aigrain@astro.ox.ac.uk
Susanne Aigrain
Affiliation:
Subdepartment of Astrophysics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UKruth.angus@astro.ox.ac.uk, suzanne.aigrain@astro.ox.ac.uk
Daniel Foreman-Mackey
Affiliation:
Sagan Fellow, Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, Seattle email: danfm@uw.edu
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The light curves of spotted, rotating stars are often non-sinusoidal and Quasi-Periodic (QP) and a strictly periodic sinusoid is therefore not a representative generative model. Ideally, a physical model of the stellar surface would be conditioned on the data, however the parameters of such models can be highly degenerate.

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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2016 

References

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