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light curve
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light curve [′līt ‚kərv]
(astrophysics)
A graph showing the variations in brightness of a celestial object; the stellar magnitude is usually shown on the vertical axis, and time is the horizontal coordinate.
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When the light curves from tens of thousands of stars were shown to the Kepler science team, everyone was awed; no one had ever seen such exquisitely detailed measurements of the light variations of so many different types of stars," said William Borucki, the principal science investigator.
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The flattening of the bottom of occultation light curves in 2002, and the roundness of the bottom of occultation light curves in 2006 (indicative of remaining flux), suggest that there may have been a plume-type event which could have ejected aerosols into the lower atmosphere that have been clearing.
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Measurement of the superhump period To study the superhump behaviour, we first extracted the times of each sufficiently well-defined superhump maximum from the individual light curves according to the Kwee & van Woerden method (7) using the Peranso software.
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