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Main sequence stars exhibit a clear rotation-activity relationship, in which rapidly rotating stars drive strong chromospheric/coronal ultraviolet and X-ray emission. While the vast majority of red giant stars are inactive, a few percent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 Don Dixon , Jamie Tayar , Keivan G. Stassun

It is well established that late-type main-sequence stars display a relationship between X-ray activity and the Rossby number, $Ro$, the ratio of rotation period to the convective turnover time. This manifests itself as a saturated regime…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 Heidi B. Thiemann , Andrew J. Norton , Ulrich C. Kolb

(abridged) Context: Main-sequence late-type stars with masses less than $0.35 M_\odot$ are fully convective. Aims: The goal is to study convection, differential rotation, and dynamos as functions of rotation in fully convective stars.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Petri J. Käpylä

We study the relation between stellar rotation and magnetic activity for a sample of 134 bright, nearby M dwarfs observed in the Kepler Two-Wheel (K2) mission during campaigns C0 to C4. The K2 lightcurves yield photometrically derived…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 B. Stelzer , M. Damasso , A. Scholz , S. P. Matt , --

An $\alpha\Omega$ dynamo, combining shear and cyclonic convection in the tachocline, is believed to generate the solar cycle. However, this model cannot explain cycles in fast rotators (with minimal shear) or in fully convective stars (no…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Zackery A. Irving , Steven H. Saar , Bradford J. Wargelin , José-Dias do Nascimento

Stellar magnetic activity provides substantial information on the magnetic dynamo and the coronal heating process. We present a catalog of X-ray activity for about 6000 stars, based on the $Chandra$ and $Gaia$ DR2 data. We also classified…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 Song Wang , Yu Bai , Lin He , Jifeng Liu

The regulation of angular momentum is one of the key processes for our understanding of stellar evolution. In contrast to solar-mass stars, very low mass (VLM) objects and brown dwarfs are believed to be fully convective. This may lead to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jochen Eisloeffel , Alexander Scholz

Core-envelope coupling provides a reasonable explanation of the spin-down stalling of stars in open clusters, which was not predicted by classical gyrochronology. However, it remains an open question whether the coupling efficiency is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-26 Henggeng Han , Song Wang , Huiqin Yang , Xue Li , Chuanjie Zheng , Xiangyu Li , Cunshi Wang , Jifeng Liu

Observations of magnetic activity indicators in solar-type stars exhibit a relationship with rotation with an increase until a "saturation" level and a moderate decrease in activity in the very fastest rotators ("supersaturation"). While…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-25 B. A. Cook , P. K. G. Williams , E. Berger

Stellar dynamos generate magnetic fields that are of fundamental importance to the variability and evolution of Sun-like and low-mass stars, and for the development of their planetary systems. We report measurements of surface-average…

Our understanding of stellar dynamos has largely been driven by the phenomena we have observed of our own Sun. Yet, as we amass longer-term datasets for an increasing number of stars, it is clear that there is a wide variety of stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Maria A. Weber

Studies of the rotation-activity relation of late-type stars are essential to enhance our understanding of stellar dynamos and angular momentum evolution. We study the rotation-activity relation with K2 for M dwarfs where it is especially…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-02 St. Raetz , B. Stelzer , A. Scholz

The rotation-activity connection is the standard paradigm for interpreting chromospheric and coronal activity in late-type stars, namely, stars with outer convection zones. This paradigm states that activity increases with decreasing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 J. H. M. M. Schmitt , P. C. Schneider , S. Czesla , S. Freund , J. Robrade

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

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

We present rotation period measurements for 41 field M-dwarfs, all of which have masses inferred (from their parallaxes and 2MASS K-band magnitudes) to be between the hydrogen burning limit and 0.35 Msol, and thus should remain…

Magnetic braking causes the spin-down of single stars as they evolve on the main sequence. Models of magnetic braking can also explain the evolution of close binary systems, including cataclysmic variables. The well-known period gap in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-24 G. A. J. Hussain

X-ray emission is an important indicator of stellar activity. In this paper, we study stellar X-ray activity using the XMM-Newton and LAMOST data for different types of stars. We provide a sample including 1259 X-ray emitting stars, of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-19 Lin He , Song Wang , Xiaojie Xu , Roberto Soria , Jifeng Liu , Xiangdong Li , Yu Bai , Zhongrui Bai , Jincheng Guo , Yanli Qiu , Yong Zhang , Ruochuan Xu , Kecheng Qian

Understanding how cool stars produce magnetic fields within their interiors is crucial for predicting the impact of such fields, such as the activity cycle of the Sun. In this respect, studying fully convective stars enables us to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 JF Donati , T Forveille , AC Cameron , JR Barnes , X Delfosse , MM Jardine , JA Valenti

We present the results from a spectroscopic study of 1080 nearby active M dwarfs, selected by correlating the 2MASS and ROSAT catalogs. We have derived the spectral types and estimated distances for all of our stars. The spectral types…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Basmah Riaz , John E. Gizis , James Harvin