English

Doppler Images and Chromospheric Variability of TWA 17

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2015-05-13 v1

Abstract

We present Doppler imaging and a Balmer line analysis of the weak-line T Tauri star TWA 17. Spectra were taken in 2006 with the UCL Echelle Spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope. Using least-squares deconvolution to improve the effective signal-to-noise ratio we produced a Doppler map of the surface spot distribution. This shows similar features to maps of other rapidly rotating T Tauri stars, i.e. a polar spot with more spots extending out of it down to the equator. In addition to the photospheric variability, the chromospheric variability was studied using the Balmer emission. The mean H-alpha profile has a narrow component consistent with rotational broadening and a broad component extending out to +/-220 km/s. The variability in H-alpha suggests that the chromosphere has at least one slingshot prominence 3 stellar radii above the surface.

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@article{arxiv.0907.2777,
  title  = {Doppler Images and Chromospheric Variability of TWA 17},
  author = {M. B. Skelly and Y. C. Unruh and J. R. Barnes and W. A. Lawson and J. -F. Donati and A. Collier Cameron},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.2777},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

11 pages, 15 figures, 2 tables. Accepted to MNRAS