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Kepler - 411 stellar activity from the modeling of planetary transits.
  • Alexandre Araujo,
  • Adriana Valio
Alexandre Araujo
Prefeitura de São Paulo

Corresponding Author:adesouza.astro@gmail.com

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Adriana Valio
Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
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Abstract

Kepler-411 is a K2V-type star with an average rotation period of 10.52 days, radius of 0.79 Rsun and mass of 0.83 Msun. This active star has at least four planets, three of them eclipse the star, the three larger planets are mini Neptunes with radii of 2.2, 3.47 and 3.46 Earth radii, and periods of 3.0, 7.8 and 58.0 days, respectively. This star was observed by the Kepler satellite for about 600 days showing a total number of 195 transit for planet Kepler-411 b, 76 transits Kepler-411c and 10 transits for planet Kepler-411d. When a planet transits its host star, it may occult a spot causing a detectable signal in the light curve. In this work we apply the model described in Silva (2003), to characterize the starspots, which resulted in the detection of a total of 45 spots in Kepler-411b, 143 spots in Kepler-411c transits and 10 spots in Kepler-411d transits. Analysis of the spots detected on the different transit latitudes of these planets yields a differential shear of 0.050 rd/d or a relative differential rotation of 8.3%, assuming a solar like rotation profile. Also, a total of 66 flares and superflares were detected on the light curve. Here, we discuss the relationship between the size and temperature of the starspots with statistical data on flares and superflares.