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We report radial velocities (RVs), projected equatorial velocities (v sin i) and CaII triplet (CaT) chromospheric activity indices for 237 late-K to mid-M candidate members of the young open cluster NGC 2516. These stars have rotation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 R. J. Jackson , R. D. Jeffries

Magnetic cycles have been detected in tens of solar-like stars. The relationship between the cycle properties and global stellar parameters is not fully understood yet. We searched for activity cycles in 90 solar-like stars with ages…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-11 E. Distefano , A. C. Lanzafame , A. Lanza , S. Messina , F. Spada

We determine rotation periods of a sample of 48 late F-type to mid-M dwarf stars using time-series high-resolution spectroscopy of the Ca II H&K and H-alpha chromospheric activity indicators. We find good agreement between the rotation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 A. Suárez Mascareño , R. Rebolo , J. I. González Hernández , M. Esposito

At fast rotation rates the coronal activity of G- and K-type stars has been observed to "saturate" and then decline again at even faster rotation rates -- a phenomenon dubbed "super-saturation". In this paper we investigate coronal activity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 R. D. Jeffries , R. J. Jackson , K. R. Briggs , P. A. Evans , J. P. Pye

Stars which are rapidly rotating are expected to show high levels of activity according to the activity-rotation relation. However, previous TESS studies have found Ultra Fast Rotating (UFR) M dwarfs with periods less than one day…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-02 Lauren Doyle , Stefano Bagnulo , Gavin Ramsay , Gerry Doyle , Pasi Hakala

Main-sequence stars follow a well-defined rotation-activity relation. There are two primary regimes: saturated, where the fractional X-ray luminosity $\log(L_{\rm X}/L_*)$ is approximately constant, and unsaturated, where the fractional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-11 Kieran A. Stuart , Scott G. Gregory

The relation between magnetic activity and rotation in late-type stars provides fundamental information on stellar dynamos and angular momentum evolution. Rotation/activity studies found in the literature suffer from inhomogeneity in the…

The evolution of magnetism in late-type dwarfs remains murky, as we can only weakly predict levels of activity for M dwarfs of a given mass and age. We report results from our spectroscopic survey of M dwarfs in the Southern Continuous…

The rotation-activity connection explains stellar activity in terms of rotation and convective overturn time. It is well established in stars of spectral types F--K and in M-type stars of young clusters. It is not established in field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ansgar Reiners

Recent studies suggest that the angular momentum evolution of late-M and brown dwarfs differs from the well-known spin-down evolution of hotter stars. Characterizing the distribution of rotation periods of these objects in the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-16 Samantha Lambier , Stanimir Metchev , Paulo Miles-Páez , Leslie Moranta , Dakota Wolfe , Joelene Hales , Jeffrey Martinovic

Stellar flares are short-duration ($<$ hours) bursts of radiation associated with surface magnetic reconnection events. Stellar magnetic activity generally decreases as a function of both age and Rossby number, $R_0$, a measure of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-03 Adina D. Feinstein , Darryl Z. Seligman , Kevin France , Jonathan Gagné , Adam Kowalski

Aims: We aim to measure the starspot rotation periods of active stars in the Kepler field as a function of spectral type and to extend reliable rotation measurements from F-, G-, and K-type to M-type stars. Methods: Using the Lomb-Scargle…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-05 M. B. Nielsen , L. Gizon , H. Schunker , C. Karoff

Observations of chromospheric and coronal emissions from various solar-type stars show that the stellar magnetic activity varies with the rotation rates of the stars. The faster the star rotates, its magnetic activity gets stronger but…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 Gopal Hazra , Jie Jiang , Bidya Binay Karak , Leonid Kitchatinov

Stellar rotation periods are valuable both for constraining models of angular momentum loss and for under- standing how magnetic features impact inferences of exoplanet parameters. Building on our previous work in the northern hemisphere,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 Elisabeth R. Newton , Nicholas Mondrik , Jonathan Irwin , Jennifer G. Winters , David Charbonneau

Magnetic activity and rotation are related to the age of low-mass main sequence stars. To further constrain these relations, we study a sample of 574 main sequence stars members of common proper motion pairs with white dwarfs, identified…

Kepler ultra-high precision photometry of long and continuous observations provides a unique dataset in which surface rotation and variability can be studied for thousands of stars. Because many of these old field stars also have…

We examine the properties of $\sim50,000$ rotational variables from the ASAS-SN survey using distances, stellar properties, and probes of binarity from $\textit{Gaia}$ DR3 and the SDSS APOGEE survey. They have high amplitudes and span a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-18 Anya Phillips , C. S. Kochanek , Tharindu Jayasinghe , Lyra Cao , Collin T. Christy , D. M. Rowan , Marc Pinsonneault

We aim to investigate the presence of signatures of magnetic cycles and rotation on a sample of 71 early M-dwarfs from the HADES RV programme using high-resolution time-series spectroscopy of the Ca II H & K and Halpha chromospheric…

High precision photometry of solar-like members of the open cluster M67 with Kepler/K2 data has recently revealed enhanced activity for stars with a large Rossby number, which is the ratio of rotation period to the convective turnover time.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-13 Axel Brandenburg , Mark S. Giampapa

In low-mass stars, the connection between magnetic activity, rotation period, and age provides key insights into the functioning of dynamos. Fully understanding the activity-rotation-age relationship requires stars with precise fundamental…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 C. Pezzotti , J. Bétrisey , G. Buldgen , M. Gilfanov , I. Bikmaev , R. Sunyaev , E. Isık , E. Gosset , N. J. Wright