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Observing dynamos in cool stars

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2014-08-27 v1

Abstract

The main aim of this paper is to introduce the most important observables that help us to investigate stellar dynamos and compare those to the modeling results. We give an overview of the available observational methods and data processing techniques that are suitable for such purposes, with touching upon examples of inadequate interpretations as well. Stellar observations are compared to the solar data in such a way, which ensures that the measurements are comparable in dimension, wavelength, and timescale. A brief outlook is given to the future plans and possibilities. A thorough review of this topic was published nearly a decade ago (Berdyugina 2005), now we focus on the experience that have been gathered since that time.

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@article{arxiv.1408.6199,
  title  = {Observing dynamos in cool stars},
  author = {Zsolt Kovari and Katalin Olah},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.6199},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

47 pages, accepted for publication in Space Science Reviews

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