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Time-Series Photometric Spot Modeling. Iii. Thirty Years In The Life Of Hk Lacertae., Katalin Oláh, Zsolt Kővári, János Bartus, Klaus G. Strassmeier, Douglas S. Hall, Gregory W. Henry
Time-Series Photometric Spot Modeling. Iii. Thirty Years In The Life Of Hk Lacertae., Katalin Oláh, Zsolt Kővári, János Bartus, Klaus G. Strassmeier, Douglas S. Hall, Gregory W. Henry
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We present a spot modeling analysis of the active late-type giant HK Lac using 30 years of photometry, including 600 new data points from the last six years. We have analyzed folded light curves and, when we had long continuous data sets, applied a new computer code for time-series modeling. The validity of the modeling results was tested as a function of the photometric noise. We have determined the unspotted brightness of HK Lac in the BV(RI)_C_ bandpasses and obtained a spot temperature of {DELTA}T=1200+/-100K. Polar active regions were recovered throughout the modeling because no other scenario was able to …
Spot On Rs Cvn From Spectroscopy And Photometry, Joel A. Eaton, Gregory W. Henry, Coretta Bell, Albert Okorogu
Spot On Rs Cvn From Spectroscopy And Photometry, Joel A. Eaton, Gregory W. Henry, Coretta Bell, Albert Okorogu
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We have used contemporaneous spectra and V light curves to form spot models for RS CVn in 1991 and 1992. More than two spots are needed to fit all the properties of the observations. In fact, moderately small spots (22 x 28 deg in latitude and longitude) having only a slight effect on the rotational light curve were eclipsed in both years, and we find that a collection of 6-8 such moderate spots is required to fit the line profiles in each year. These groups of spots also account naturally for a difference in level of light between the two …
The 11 Year History Of Starspots On V1149 Ori=Hd 37824, Douglas S. Hall, Francis C. Fekel, Gregory W. Henry, William S. Barksdale
The 11 Year History Of Starspots On V1149 Ori=Hd 37824, Douglas S. Hall, Francis C. Fekel, Gregory W. Henry, William S. Barksdale
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All available radial-velocity measures, published and unpublished, yield an improved period and a new (assumed circular) solution. The period is 53.58 d +/- 0.02 d, and conjunction (K1 giant in front) was at 2 444 325.93 +/- 0.12 d. Eleven years of V-band photometry, published and unpublished, between 1978-1979 and 1989-1990 are analyzed. Eighteen data groups are fit with a two-spot light-curve-modeling technique. Six spots existing sometime during the 11 years are identified, and the 4-percent range of their rotation periods is used to estimate a differential rotation coefficient of k = 0.08 +/- 0.02. Observed lifetimes of those six …
Evolution Of The Starspots In V478 Lyrae From 1980 To 1988, Douglas S. Hall, Gregory W. Henry, James R. Sowell
Evolution Of The Starspots In V478 Lyrae From 1980 To 1988, Douglas S. Hall, Gregory W. Henry, James R. Sowell
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Differential UBV photometry of V478 Lyrae from 1980 to 1988 is given and analyzed as 22 separate light curves, each spanning an average of a dozen rotation cycles. It is shown that spots on V478 Lyr appear to have lifetimes on the order of several months to a year. The amplitude of the light loss produced by a spot can change by a factor of 2 within 20 days. In the only four determinate cases, a spot came into existence at one of the two conjunctions, that is, in the middle of the hemisphere facing (or opposing) the companion star. …