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Deconfusing the Confusogram: Getting New Insights from Zeeman Doppler Imaging

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2020-06-11 v1

Abstract

Zeeman Doppler Imaging is a powerful tool for characterizing the strength and topology of stellar magnetic fields. In this research note, we present a new way to visualize the typical results from ZDI for an ensemble of stars, addressing some of the concerns with the standard `confusogram' approach to illustrating the data. Our publically available plotting methods further enable an accessible means to consider variability in the inferred magnetic field topologies from repeated observations, as we demonstrate with the literature ZDI data on M dwarfs.

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@article{arxiv.2006.05268,
  title  = {Deconfusing the Confusogram: Getting New Insights from Zeeman Doppler Imaging},
  author = {J. Sebastian Pineda and James R. A. Davenport},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.05268},
  year   = {2020}
}

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Published in RNAAS; Code publicly available

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