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Using the homogeneous X-ray catalog from ROSAT observations, we conducted a comprehensive investigation into stellar X-ray activity-rotation relations for both single and binary stars. Generally, the relation for single stars consists of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-08 Henggeng Han , Song Wang , Chuanjie Zheng , Xue Li , Kai Xiao , Jifeng Liu

The periods of magnetic activity cycles in the Sun and solar-type stars do not exhibit a simple or even single trend with respect to rotation rate or luminosity. Dynamo models can be used to interpret this diversity, and can ultimately help…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 A. Strugarek , P. Beaudoin , P. Charbonneau , A. S. Brun

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

We investigate stellar magnetic activity from the theoretical point of view, by using stellar evolution models to calculate theoretical convective turnover times ($\tau_{\rm c}$) and Rossby numbers (${\rm Ro}$) for pre-main-sequence and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-11 N. R. Landin , L. T. S. Mendes , L. P. R. Vaz , S. H. P. Alencar

Two aspects of homogeneous rotating turbulence are quantified through forced Direct Numerical Simulations in an elongated domain, which is in the direction of rotation about $340$ times larger than the typical initial eddy size. First, by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-20 Tiago Pestana , Stefan Hickel

The impact of disk-locking on the stellar properties related to magnetic activity from the theoretical point of view is investigated. We use the ATON stellar evolution code to calculate theoretical values of convective turnover times…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-08 N. R. Landin , L. T. S. Mendes , L. P. R. Vaz , S. H. P. Alencar

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

Two fundamental properties of stellar magnetic fields have been determined by observations for solar-like stars with different Rossby numbers (Ro), namely, the magnetic field strength and the magnetic cycle period. The field strength…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 G. Guerrero , B. Zaire , P. K. Smolarkiewicz , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , A. G. Kosovichev , N. N. Mansour

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

Understanding how the magnetic activity of low-mass stars depends on their fundamental parameters is an important goal of stellar astrophysics. Previous studies show that activity levels are largely determined by the stellar Rossby number…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-19 Victor See , Julia Roquette , Louis Amard , Sean P. Matt

The CoRoT satellite has made available high precision photometric observations of a large number of stars of different spectral types. Continuous photometric time series allow the characterization of stellar microvariability in a systematic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 J. C. Hulot , F. Baudin , R. Samadi , M. J. Goupil

The stellar Rossby number, a dimensionless parameter quantifying the influence of Coriolis forces on convective motions, plays a pivotal role in understanding magnetic stellar evolution. In this work, we explore the connection between the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-15 Alfio Bonanno , Enrico Corsaro , Travis S. Metcalfe , Sylvain Breton , Orlagh L. Creevey , Christopher J. Lindsay

There is now a large sample of stars observed by the Kepler satellite with measured rotation periods and photometric activity index $S_{\rm ph}$. We use this data, in conjunction with stellar interiors models, to explore the interplay of…

Empirical calibrations of the stellar age-rotation-activity relation (ARAR) rely on observations of the co-eval populations of stars in open clusters. We used the Chandra X-ray Observatory to study M37, a 500-Myr-old open cluster that has…

Turbulent friction in convective regions in stars and planets is one of the key physical mechanisms that drive the dissipation of the kinetic energy of tidal flows in their interiors and the evolution of their systems. This friction acts…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-20 Stéphane Mathis , Pierre Auclair-Desrotour , Mathieu Guenel , Florian Gallet , Christophe Le Poncin-Lafitte

The stellar Rossby number (Ro) is a dimensionless quantity that is used in the description of fluid flows. It characterizes the relative importance of Coriolis forces on convective motions, which is central to understanding magnetic stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-22 Travis S. Metcalfe , Enrico Corsaro , Alfio Bonanno , Orlagh L. Creevey , Jennifer L. van Saders

Using a model based on the rotational modulation of the visibility of active regions, we analyse the high-accuracy CoRoT lightcurve of the active young star CoRoT102899501. Spectroscopic follow-up observations are used to derive its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-12 P. Gondoin , D. Gandolfi , M. Fridlund , A. Frasca , E. W. Guenther , A. Hatzes , H. J. Deeg , H. Parviainen , P. Eigmueller , M. Deleuil

We attempt to provide a quantitative theoretical explanation for the observations that Ca II H/K emission and X-ray emission from solar-like stars increase with decreasing Rossby number (i.e., with faster rotation). Assuming that these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-30 Bidya Binay Karak , Leonid L. Kitchatinov , Arnab Rai Choudhuri

Based on analysis of photometric observations of nearby M type stars obtained with ASAS, 31 periodic variables were detected. The determined periods are assumed to be related to rotation periods of the investigated stars. Among them 10 new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-16 M. Kiraga , K. Stepien

In the context of secular evolution, we describe the dynamics of the radiative core of low-mass stars to understand the internal transport of angular momentum in such stars which results in a solid rotation in the Sun from 0.7R_sun to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 D. Hypolite , S. Mathis , M. Rieutord