We found that R
var in the periodic sample showed a weak dependence on effective temperature, rotational period, and metallicity (fig. S8) even though these were constrained to narrow ranges by our selection criteria. We therefore corrected the R
var measurements of the periodic stars for these dependencies and normalized them to the values of the solar fundamental parameters using a multivariate analysis (13). For four of the 369 periodic stars, this process returned negative R
var values, indicating an overcorrection. Those four stars were discarded. For the nonperiodic sample, R
var did not correlate with the fundamental parameters (fig. S9), so no correction was applied.
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