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The main chromospheric activity indicator is the S index, which is esentially the ratio of the flux in the core of the Ca II H and K lines to the continuum nearby, and is well studied basically for stars from F to K. Another usual…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Carolina Cincunegui , Rodrigo F. Díaz , Pablo J. D. Mauas

In this study, we consider chromospheric heating models for 55 Cancri in conjunction with observations. The theoretical models, previously discussed in Paper I, are self-consistent, nonlinear and time-dependent ab-initio computations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 M. Cuntz , K. -P. Schröder , D. E. Fawzy , A. R. Ridden-Harper

The age distribution of the central stars of planetary nebulae (CSPN) is estimated using two methods based on their kinematic properties. First, the expected rotation velocities of the nebulae at their Galactocentric distances are compared…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-29 W. J. Maciel , T. S. Rodrigues , R. D. D. Costa

Context: Chromospheric activity produces both photometric and spectroscopic variations that can be mistaken as planets. Large spots crossing the stellar disc can produce planet-like periodic variations in the light curve of a star. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 R. Martinez-Arnaiz , J. Maldonado , D. Montes , C. Eiroa , B. Montesinos

Spectroscopic analyses of young late-type stars suffer from systematic inaccuracies, typically under-estimating metallicities but over-estimating abundances of certain elements including oxygen and barium. Effects are stronger in younger…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-11 T. Nordlander , M. Baratella , L. Spina , V. D'Orazi

Effective temperatures, surface gravities, and iron abundances were derived for 109 stars observed by the K2 mission using equivalent width measurements of Fe I and Fe II lines. Calculations were carried out in LTE using Kurucz model…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-19 V. Loaiza-Tacuri , Katia Cunha , Verne V. Smith , F. Quispe-Huaynasi , Ellen Costa-Almeida , Luan Ghezzi , Jorge Melendez

The rotation-mass-age relationship offers a promising avenue for measuring the ages of field stars, assuming the attendant uncertainties to this technique can be well characterized. We model stellar angular momentum evolution starting with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-31 Courtney R. Epstein , Marc H. Pinsonneault

Context. M dwarfs are an ideal laboratory for hunting Earth-like planets, and the study of chromospheric activity is an important part of this task. On the one hand, its short-term activity show high levels of magnetic activity that can…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-30 R. V. Ibañez Bustos , A. P. Buccino , N. Nardetto , D. Mourard , M. Flores , P. J. D. Mauas

Precise photometry from the Kepler space telescope allows not only the measurement of rotation in solar-type field stars, but also the determination of reliable masses and ages from asteroseismology. These critical data have recently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-29 Travis S. Metcalfe , Ricky Egeland , Jennifer van Saders

By using the current photometric rotational data on eight galactic open clusters, we show that the evolutionary stellar model (isochrone) ages of these clusters are tightly correlated with the period shifts applied to the (B-V)_0 - P_rot…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-26 Geza Kovacs

We present high-resolution echelle spectroscopy of 676 nearby M dwarfs. Our measurements include radial velocities, equivalent widths of important chromospheric emission lines, and rotational velocities for rapidly rotating stars. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-16 J. E. Gizis , I. N. Reid , S. L. Hawley

We use the LAMOST spectra of member stars in Pleiades, M34, Praesepe, and Hyades to study how chromospheric activity vary as a function of mass and rotation at different age. We measured excess equivalent widths of H$\alpha$, H$\beta$, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-31 Xiang-Song Fang , Gang Zhao , Jing-Kun Zhao , Yerra Bharat Kumar

The expansion history of the Universe can be constrained in a cosmology-independent way by measuring the differential age evolution of cosmic chronometers. This yields a measurement of the Hubble parameter $H(z)$ as a function of redshift.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-15 Michele Moresco , Raul Jimenez , Licia Verde , Lucia Pozzetti , Andrea Cimatti , Annalisa Citro

The ages of solar-like stars have been at the center of many studies such as exoplanet characterization or Galactic-archaeology. While ages are usually computed from stellar evolution models, relations linking ages to other stellar…

Spectropolarimetric data allow for simultaneous monitoring of stellar chromospheric $\log{R^{\prime}_{\rm{HK}}}$ activity and the surface-averaged longitudinal magnetic field, $B_l$, giving the opportunity to probe the relationship between…

Gyrochronology, the field of age-dating stars using mainly their rotation periods and masses, is ideal for inferring the ages of individual main-sequence stars. However, due to the lack of physical understanding of the complex magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-24 Yuxi Lu , Ruth Angus , Daniel Foreman-Mackey , Soichiro Hattori

Accurate stellar ages are essential for our understanding of the star formation history of the Milky Way, Galactic chemical evolution, and to constrain exoplanet formation models. Gyrochronology, a relationship between stellar rotation and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-11 Tomomi Otani , Ted von Hippel , Derek Buzasi , T. D. Oswalt , Alexander Stone-Martinez , Patrice Majewski

Asteroseismology provides powerful means to probe stellar interiors. The oscillations frequencies are closely related to stellar interior properties via the density and sound speed profiles. Since these are tightly linked with the mass and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Yveline Lebreton , Josefina Montalban

The analysis of the effect of the hysteresis, which manifests itself in an ambiguous relationship of radiation from the photosphere, chromosphere and corona on the rise and decline phases of the solar and stellar activity cycles have done.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-29 E. A. Bruevich , G. V. Yakunina , T. V. Kazachevskaya , V. V. Katyushina , A. A. Nusinov

Spectroscopic equilibrium allows us to obtain precise stellar parameters in Sun-like stars. It relies on the assumption of the iron excitation and ionization equilibrium. However, several works suggest that magnetic activity may affect…