• DOI:10.1088/2041-8205/785/2/L32
Corpus ID: 118539964

FLICKER AS A TOOL FOR CHARACTERIZING PLANETS THROUGH ASTERODENSITY PROFILING

@article{Kipping2014FLICKERAA,
  title={FLICKER AS A TOOL FOR CHARACTERIZING PLANETS THROUGH ASTERODENSITY PROFILING},
  author={D. Kipping and F. Bastien and K. Stassun and W. Chaplin and D. Huber and L. Buchhave},
  journal={The Astrophysical Journal},
  year={2014},
  volume={785}
}

D. Kipping, F. Bastien, +3 authors L. Buchhave

Published 2014

Physics

The Astrophysical Journal

Variability in the time series brightness of a star on a timescale of 8 hr, known as "flicker," has been previously demonstrated to serve as a proxy for the surface gravity of a star by Bastien et al. Although surface gravity is crucial for stellar classification, it is the mean stellar density that is most useful when studying transiting exoplanets, due to its direct impact on the transit light curve shape. Indeed, an accurate and independent measure of the stellar density can be leveraged to… CONTINUE READING

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