Western Washington University Masthead Logo Western CEDAR Physics & Astronomy College of Science and Engineering 6-20-2015 Detecting Differential Rotation and Starspot Evolution on the M Dwarf GJ 1243 with Kepler James R. A. Davenport Western Washington University,
[email protected] Leslie Hebb Suzanne L. Hawley Follow this and additional works at: https://cedar.wwu.edu/physicsastronomy_facpubs Part of the Stars, Interstellar Medium and the Galaxy Commons Recommended Citation Davenport, James R. A.; Hebb, Leslie; and Hawley, Suzanne L., "Detecting Differential Rotation and Starspot Evolution on the M Dwarf GJ 1243 with Kepler" (2015). Physics & Astronomy. 16. https://cedar.wwu.edu/physicsastronomy_facpubs/16 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the College of Science and Engineering at Western CEDAR. It has been accepted for inclusion in Physics & Astronomy by an authorized administrator of Western CEDAR. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. The Astrophysical Journal, 806:212 (11pp), 2015 June 20 doi:10.1088/0004-637X/806/2/212 © 2015. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. DETECTING DIFFERENTIAL ROTATION AND STARSPOT EVOLUTION ON THE M DWARF GJ 1243 WITH KEPLER James R. A. Davenport1, Leslie Hebb2, and Suzanne L. Hawley1 1 Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, Box 351580, Seattle, WA 98195, USA;
[email protected] 2 Department of Physics, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY 14456, USA Received 2015 March 9; accepted 2015 May 6; published 2015 June 18 ABSTRACT We present an analysis of the starspots on the active M4 dwarf GJ 1243, using 4 years of time series photometry from Kepler.