# Do the Kepler AGN light curves need reprocessing

@article{Kasliwal2015DoTK,
title={Do the Kepler AGN light curves need reprocessing},
author={Vishal P. Kasliwal and Michael S. E. Vogeley and Gordon T. Richards and Joshua Williams and Michael T. Carini},
journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
year={2015},
volume={453},
pages={2075-2081}
}
• Published 15 July 2015
• Physics
• Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
ABSTRACT We gauge the impact of spacecraft-induced e ects on the inferred variability propertiesof the light curve of the Seyfert 1 AGN Zw 229-15 observed by Kepler. We comparethe light curve of Zw 229-15 obtained from the Kepler MAST database with a re-processed light curve constructed from raw pixel data (Williams & Carini2015). Weuse the rst-order structure function, SF(t), to t both light curves to the dampedpower-law PSD ofKasliwal, Vogeley & Richards(2015). On short timescales, we nd…
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