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Preparation of Kepler light curves for asteroseismic analyses

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 414 (1): L6-L10 JUN 2011

Authors:
Garcia, RA; Hekker, S; Stello, D; Gutierrez-Soto, J; Handberg, R; Huber, D; Karoff, C; Uytterhoeven, K; Appourchaux, T; Chaplin, WJ; Elsworth, Y; Mathur, S; Ballot, J; Christensen-Dalsgaard, J; Gilliland, RL; Houdek, G; Jenkins, JM; Kjeldsen, H; McCauliff, S; Metcalfe, T; Middour, CK; Molenda-Zakowicz, J; Monteiro, MJPFG; Smith, JC; Thompson, MJ

Abstract:
The Kepler mission is providing photometric data of exquisite quality for the asteroseismic study of different classes of pulsating stars. These analyses place particular demands on the pre-processing of the data, over a range of time-scales from minutes to months. Here, we describe processing procedures developed by the Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium to prepare light curves that are optimized for the asteroseismic study of solar-like oscillating stars in which outliers, jumps and drifts are corrected.

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