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Measuring Rotation Periods in Crowded Star Clusters with TESS: A Proof of Concept with NGC 3532

  • Authors: Matthew S. Stafford, Jason Lee Curtis, Marcel A. Agüeros

Matthew S. Stafford et al 2026 The Astronomical Journal 171 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 4.

The impact on the Cycle 1 Prot distribution of requiring a minimum power when validating Prot measurements. The left panel shows a histogram of the periodogram powers for the Cycle 1 light curves; the orange bins correspond to powers below the 30th percentile for this dataset (0.05 in this case). The right panel shows the full distribution of Cycle 1 Prot, with the values drawn from measurements with a power below the 30th percentile indicated with orange crosses. Those low-power measurements include many outliers, such as the K stars with Prot > 10 days or <1 day, and other problematic measurements, such as the strip of ≈3 days Prot across the observed color range.

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