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Variability in the light curves of spotted, rotating stars is often non-sinusoidal and quasi-periodic --- spots move on the stellar surface and have finite lifetimes, causing stellar flux variations to slowly shift in phase. A strictly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Ruth Angus , Timothy Morton , Suzanne Aigrain , Daniel Foreman-Mackey , Vinesh Rajpaul

In our former paper I, we showed on the Sun that different active regions possess unique intensity profiles on the Ca II H & K lines. We now extend the analysis by showing how those properties can be used on real stellar observations,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-04 M. Cretignier , N. C. Hara , A. G. M. Pietrow , Y. Zhao , H. Yu , X. Dumusque , A. Sozzetti , C. Lovis , S. Aigrain

Stellar activity cycles reveal continuous relaxation and induction of magnetic fields. The activity cycle is typically traced through the observation of cyclic variations in total brightness or Ca H&K emission flux of stars, as well as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-17 Xinlin Zhao , Song Wang , Xue Li , Yue Xiang , Fukun Xu , Shenghong Gu , Jifeng Liu

Although instruments for measuring the radial velocities (RVs) of stars now routinely reach sub-meter per second accuracy, the detection of low-mass planets is still very challenging. The rotational modulation and evolution of spots and/or…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-12 Haochuan Yu , Suzanne Aigrain , Baptiste Klein , Oscar Barragán , Annelies Mortier , Niamh K. O'Sullivan , Michael Cretignier

The re-emission in the cores of the Ca II H & K and H$\alpha$ lines, are well known proxies of stellar activity. However, these activity indices probe different activity phenomena, the first being more sensitive to plage variation, while…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 J. Gomes da Silva , N. C. Santos , I. Boisse , X. Dumusque , C. Lovis

After decades of effort, the solar activity cycle is exceptionally well characterized but it remains poorly understood. Pioneering work at the Mount Wilson Observatory demonstrated that other sun-like stars also show regular activity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-01 Travis S. Metcalfe , Jennifer van Saders

The dependence of stellar magnetic activity on stellar parameters would be inspired by the chromospheric activity studies based on the large-scale spectroscopic surveys. The Ca II H and K lines are employed to construct indicators for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-31 Weitao Zhang , Jun Zhang , Han He , Ali Luo , Haotong Zhang

The connection between stellar rotation, stellar activity, and convective turnover time is revisited with a focus on the sole contribution of magnetic activity to the Ca II H&K emission, the so-called excess flux, and its dimensionless…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 M. Mittag , J. H. M. M. Schmitt , K. -P. Schröder

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

We aim to detect activity cycles in young main-sequence stars, analogous to the 11-year solar cycle, using combined photometric survey data. This research will enhance our understanding of how cycle periods relate to rotation rates in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-13 Deepak Chahal , Devika Kamath , Richard de Grijs , Benjamin T. Montet , Xiaodian Chen

The emission in the near ultraviolet Ca II H & K lines is modulated by stellar magnetic activity. Although this emission, quantified via the S-index, has been serving as a prime proxy of stellar magnetic activity for several decades, many…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 K. Sowmya , A. I. Shapiro , V. Witzke , N. -E. Nèmec , T. Chatzistergos , K. L. Yeo , N. A. Krivova , S. K. Solanki

Chromospheric activity is widely used as an age indicator for solar-type stars based on the early evidence that there is a smooth evolution from young and active to old and inactive stars. We analysed chromospheric activity in five…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-07 G. Pace , J. Melendez , L. Pasquini , G. Carraro , J. Danziger , P. Francois , F. Matteucci , N. C. Santos

We explore the dependence of the amplitude of stellar dynamo cycle variability (as seen in the Mount Wilson Ca II HK timeseries data) on other stellar parameters. We find that the fractional cycle amplitude A_cyc (i.e. the ratio of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Steven H. Saar , Axel Brandenburg

The solar activity cycle is a manifestation of the hydromagnetic dynamo working inside our star. The detection of activity cycles in solar-like stars and the study of their properties allow us to put the solar dynamo in perspective,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 A. F. Lanza

In our recent catalogue of BY Draconis (BY Dra) variables based on Zwicky Transient Facility data, we found traces of a period gap in the period-colour diagram. We combined our BY Dra database with catalogues from the {\sl Kepler} and K2…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-01 Deepak Chahal , Devika Kamath , Richard de Grijs , Paolo Ventura , Xiaodian Chen

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 temporal analysis of stellar activity evolution is usually dominated by a complex trade-off between model complexity and interpretability, often by neglecting the non-stationary nature of the process. Recent studies appear to indicate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-27 E. N. Velloso , F. Anthony , J. D. do Nascimento , L. F. Q. Silveira , J. Hall , S. H. Saar

Observations of various solar-type stars along decades revealed that they can have magnetic cycles, just like our Sun. An investigation of the relation between their cycle length and rotation period can shed light on the dynamo mechanisms…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Raissa Estrela , Adriana Valio

In asteroseismology an important diagnostic of the evolutionary status of a star is the small frequency separation which is sensitive to the gradient of the mean molecular weight in the stellar interior. It is thus interesting to discuss…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-05 A. Bonanno , E. Corsaro , C. Karoff

The bulk of available stellar activity observations is frequently checked for the manifestation of signs in comparison with the known characteristic of solar magnetic modulation. The problem is that stellar activity records are usually an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-03 R. Stepanov , N. I. Bondar' , M. M. Katsova , D. Sokoloff , P. Frick