Chandrasekhar's relation and the stellar rotation in the Kepler field

• Published in: arXiv.org
• Main Authors: Silva, J R P, Soares, B B, de Freitas, D B
• Format: Paper Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 29.10.2014
• Subjects: Confidence intervals; Consistency; Physics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics; Random variables; Resampling; Samples; Stars; Statistical analysis; Statistical methods; Statistical tests; Stellar rotation
• ISSN: 2331-8422
• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1410.8048

According to the statistical law of large numbers, the expected mean of identically distributed random variables of a sample tends toward the actual mean as the sample increases. Under this law, it is possible to test the Chandrasekhar's relation (CR), =(\pi/4)^{-1}, using a large amount of and V data from different samples of similar stars. In this context, we conducted a statistical test to check the consistency of the CR in the Kepler field. In order to achieve this, we use three large samples of V obtained from Kepler rotation periods and a homogeneous control sample of to overcome the scarcity of data for stars in the Kepler field. We used the bootstrap-resampling method to estimate the mean rotations ( and ) and their corresponding confidence intervals for the stars segregated by effective temperature. Then, we compared the estimated means to check the consistency of CR, and analyzed the influence of the uncertainties in radii measurements, and possible selection effects. We found that the CR with =\pi/4 is consistent with the behavior of the as a function of for stars from the Kepler field as there is a very good agreement between such a relation and the data.