High Angular Resolution Astrophysics: Resolving Stellar Surface Features
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
2019-03-13 v1
Abstract
We are now in an era where we can image details on the surfaces of stars. When resolving stellar surfaces, we see that every surface is uniquely complicated. Each imaged star provides insight into not only the stellar surface structures, but also the stellar interiors suggesting constraints on evolution and dynamo models. As more resources become operational in the coming years, imaging stellar surfaces should become commonplace for revealing the true nature of stars. Here, we discuss the main types of stars for which imaging surface features is currently useful and what improved observing techniques would provide for imaging stellar surface features.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1903.04660,
title = {High Angular Resolution Astrophysics: Resolving Stellar Surface Features},
author = {Rachael M. Roettenbacher and Ryan P. Norris and Fabien Baron and Kenneth G. Carpenter and Michelle J. Creech-Eakman and Douglas Gies and Thomas Maccarone and John D. Monnier and Gioia Rau and Stephen Ridgway and Gail H. Schaefer and Theo ten Brummelaar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.04660},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
8 pages, 3 figures, white paper for Astro2020 Decadal Survey