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Stellar chromospheric activities revealed from the LAMOST-K2 time-domain survey

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2023-01-04 v1

Abstract

By using the LAMOST time-domain survey data, we study stellar activities based on the Hα\rm{H_{\alpha}} lines for about 2000 stars in four KK2 plates. Two indices, RHαR_{\rm{H\alpha}}^{'} and RHα+R_{\rm{H\alpha}}^{+}, are computed from LAMOST spectra, the former of which is derived by excluding the photospheric contributions to the Hα\rm{H_{\alpha}} lines, while the latter is derived by further subtracting the non-dynamo driven chromospheric emission. Meanwhile, the periodicity and variation amplitudes are computed from \emph{K2} light curves. Both the RHαR_{\rm{H\alpha}}^{'}-Ro relation and RHα+R_{\rm{H\alpha}}^{+}-Ro relation show complicated profiles in the non-saturated decay region. Hot stars show flatter slopes and higher activity level than cool stars, and the behaviour is more notable in the RHα+R_{\rm{H\alpha}}^{+}-RoR_{o} relation. This is consistent with recent studies using other activity proxies, including Lx/LbolL_{\rm{x}}/L_{\rm{bol}}, RHKR_{\rm{HK}}^{'} and amplitudes of optical light curves. % This may suggest different kinds of stars follow different power laws in the decay region. Most of our targets have multiple observations, and some of them exhibit significant variability of Hα{\rm{H\alpha}} emissions, which may cause the large scatters shown in the decay region. We find three targets exhibiting positive correlation in rotational phase, possibly indicating that their optical light curves are dominated by hot faculae rather than cool starspots.

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@article{arxiv.2210.16830,
  title  = {Stellar chromospheric activities revealed from the LAMOST-K2 time-domain survey},
  author = {Henggeng Han and Song Wang and Yu Bai and Huiqin Yang and Xiangsong Fang and Jifeng Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.16830},
  year   = {2023}
}

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20 pages, 34 figures, accepted for publication in ApJS