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A GRANULATION “FLICKER”-BASED MEASURE OF STELLAR SURFACE GRAVITY

  • Authors: Fabienne A. Bastien, Keivan G. Stassun, Gibor Basri, and Joshua Pepper

2016 The Astrophysical Journal 818 43.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 2.

Flux fraction and contamination for (left) asteroseismic calibration stars and (right) a larger sample of representative stars spanning a larger range of Kepler magnitudes. The two colors represent the maximum and minimum values observed over all quarters. In general, the flux fraction (the fraction of a star's flux included in the photometric aperture) decreases with increasing magnitude while flux contamination from neighboring stars increases. For the measurement of F8, we exclude any quarters where the flux fraction is less than 0.9 and/or where the contamination is greater than 0.05. Note the different y-axis scalings between the left and right columns: the photometry for the asteroseismic sample tends to be significantly cleaner than the larger, more representative sample.

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