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Fast and reliable method for measuring stellar differential rotation from photometric data

Fast and reliable method for measuring stellar differential rotation from photometric data

Co-rotating spots at different latitudes on the stellar surface generate periodic photometric variability and can be useful proxies to detect Differential Rotation (DR). DR is a major ingredient of the solar dynamo but observations of stellar DR are rather sparse. In view of the Kepler space telescope we are interested …