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The Sun and solar-type stars exhibit irregular cyclic variations in their magnetic activity over long time scales. To understand this irregularity, we employed the flux transport dynamo models to investigate the behavior of one solar mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-25 Vindya Vashishth

We present the results of 3--D nonlinear simulations of magnetic dynamo action by core convection within A-type stars of 2 solar masses, at a range of rotation rates. We consider the inner 30% by radius of such stars, with the spherical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthew Browning , Allan Sacha Brun , Juri Toomre

Recent observations suggest the existence of two characteristic cycle times for early-type M stars dependent on the rotation period. They are of order one year for the fast rotators ($P_{\rm rot}<1$ day) and of order 4 years for the slower…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 M. Küker , G. Rüdiger , K. Oláh , K. G. Strassmeier

We present rotation periods for thousands of active stars in the Kepler field derived from Q3 data. In most cases a second period close to the rotation period was detected, which we interpreted as surface differential rotation (DR). Active…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Timo Reinhold , Ansgar Reiners , Gibor Basri

We use the ASH code to model the convective dynamo of solar-type stars. Based on a series of 15 3-D MHD simulations spanning 4 bins in rotation and mass, we show what mechanisms are at work in these stellar dynamos with and without magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Allan Sacha Brun , Antoine Strugarek , Quentin Noraz , Barbara Perri , Jacobo Varela , Kyle Augsutson , Paul Charbonneau , Juri Toomre

This paper reports positive detections of surface differential rotation on two rapidly rotating cool stars at several epochs, by using stellar surface features (both cool spots and magnetic regions) as tracers of the large scale latitudinal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. -F. Donati , A. Collier Cameron , P. Petit

Through the McDonald Observatory M Dwarf Planet Search, we have acquired nearly 3,000 high-resolution spectra of 93 late-type (K5-M5) stars over more than a decade using HET/HRS. This sample provides a unique opportunity to investigate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Paul Robertson , Michael Endl , William D. Cochran , Sarah E. Dodson-Robinson

By using the LAMOST time-domain survey data, we study stellar activities based on the $\rm{H_{\alpha}}$ lines for about 2000 stars in four $K$2 plates. Two indices, $R_{\rm{H\alpha}}^{'}$ and $R_{\rm{H\alpha}}^{+}$, are computed from LAMOST…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-04 Henggeng Han , Song Wang , Yu Bai , Huiqin Yang , Xiangsong Fang , Jifeng Liu

Long slit spectroscopic data for 7 early-type galaxies with X-ray emission have been analyzed to derive velocity dispersion and radial velocity profiles. Major axis rotation curves out to $R\sim R_e$ are presented. Adding these new data to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. Pellegrini , E. V. Held , L. Ciotti

Magnetic activity cycles are an important phenomenon in both the Sun and other stars. The shape of the solar cycle is commonly characterised by a fast rise and a slower decline, but not much attention has been paid to the shape of cycles in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 T. Willamo , T. Hackman , J. J. Lehtinen , M. J. Käpylä , N. Olspert , M. Viviani , J. Warnecke

Rotation is a significant characteristic of the Sun and other stars, and it plays an important role in understanding their dynamo actions and magnetic activities. In this study, the rotation of the solar chromospheric activity is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-22 Jing-Chen Xu , Peng-Xin Gao , Xiang-Jun Shi

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

We study the total mass-density profile for a sample of 14 fast-rotator early-type galaxies (stellar masses $10.2<\log M_\ast/M_\odot<11.7$). We combine observations from the SLUGGS and Atlas3D surveys to map out the stellar kinematics in…

Stellar activity can be observed at different wavelengths in a variety of different activity indicators. We investigated the correlation between coronal and chromospheric emissions by combining X-ray data from stars detected in the eROSITA…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-25 S. Freund , S. Czesla , B. Fuhrmeister , P. Predehl , J. Robrade , P. C. Schneider , J. H. M. M. Schmitt

We present a comprehensive analysis of Solar Cycle 25 aimed at precisely constraining the interval of its activity maximum using multiple observational parameters: sunspot number (SSN), Wolf number, the 10.7 cm solar radio flux (F10.7), the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 Homer Dávila Gutiérrez

Core convection and dynamo activity deep within rotating A-type stars of 2 solar masses are studied with 3--D nonlinear simulations. Our modeling considers the inner 30% by radius of such stars, thus capturing within a spherical domain the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Allan Sacha Brun , Matthew K. Browning , Juri Toomre

We present period measurements of a large sample of field stars in the solar neighbourhood, observed by CoRoT in two different directions of the Galaxy. The presence of a period was detected using the Scargle Lomb Normalized Periodogram…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Laura Affer , Giuseppina Micela , Fabio Favata , Ettore Flaccomio

Global and semi-global convective dynamo simulations of solar-like stars are known to show a transition from an anti-solar (fast poles, slow equator) to solar-like (fast equator, slow poles) differential rotation (DR) for increasing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-25 M. Viviani , M. J. Käpylä , J. Warnecke , P. J. Käpylä , M. Rheinhardt

We present the results of a study of the stellar activity in the solar neighborhood using complete kinematics (galactocentric velocities U,V,W) and the chromospheric activity index $\log R'_{\rm{HK}}$. We analyzed the average activity level…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 F. Murgas , J. S. Jenkins , P. Rojo , H. R. A Jones , D. J. Pinfield

Brightness variations due to dark spots on the stellar surface encode information about stellar surface rotation and magnetic activity. In this work, we analyze the Kepler long-cadence data of 26,521 main-sequence stars of spectral types M…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-30 A. R. G. Santos , R. A. García , S. Mathur , L. Bugnet , J. L. van Saders , T. S. Metcalfe , G. V. A. Simonian , M. H. Pinsonneault