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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…

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One of the most powerful methods used to estimate sky-projected spin-orbit angles of exoplanetary systems is through a spectroscopic transit observation known as the Rossiter-McLaughlin (RM) effect. So far mostly single RM observations have…

Co-rotating spots at different latitudes on the stellar surface generate periodic photometric variability and can be useful proxies to detect Differential Rotation (DR). DR is a major ingredient of the solar dynamo but observations of…

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

We present a quantitative analysis of the effect of microlensing caused by random motion of individual stars in the galaxy which is lensing a background quasar. We calculate a large number of magnification patterns for positions of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Joachim Wambsganss , Tomislav Kundic

Using a recent census of flare stars from the Kepler survey, we have explored how flare activity evolves across stellar main sequence lifetimes. We utilize a sample of 347 stars with robust flare activity detections, and which have rotation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 James R. A. Davenport , Kevin R. Covey , Riley W. Clarke , Austin C. Boeck , Jonathan Cornet , Suzanne L. Hawley

The surface differential rotation of active solar-type stars can be investigated by means of Doppler and Zeeman-Doppler Imaging, both techniques enabling one to estimate the short-term temporal evolution of photospheric structures (cools…

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

Starspots are cooler and darker than the stellar surface. Therefore, the emitted flux of a star changes when spots are visible on its surface. The presence of spots together with the stellar rotation leads to a periodic modulation on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 A. R. G. Santos , M. S. Cunha , P. P. Avelino , R. A. García , S. Mathur

The kinematics of distant OB stars perpendicular to the Galactic plane, inferred from proper motions in the Hipparcos catalogue, are analysed and compared to the kinematic signature that would be induced by a long-lived Galactic warp.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 R. Drimmel , R. L. Smart , M. G. Lattanzi

In this paper, we investigate the extent to which observations of molecular clouds can correctly identify and measure star-forming clumps. We produced a synthetic column density map and a synthetic spectral-line data cube from the simulated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-08-23 Rachel L. Ward , James Wadsley , Alison Sills , Nicolas Petitclerc

The sunspot number varies roughly periodically with time. However the individual cycle durations and the amplitudes are found to vary in an irregular manner. It is observed that the stronger cycles are having shorter rise times and vice…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-04 Bidya Binay Karak

The duration of activity growths in solar cycles is on average shorter than the duration of its declines. This asymmetry can result from fluctuations in dynamo parameters. A solar dynamo model with fluctuations in the $\alpha$-effect shows…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 Leonid Kitchatinov , Alexander Nepomnyashchikh

The activity-related variations in the solar acoustic frequencies have been known for 30 years. However, the importance of the different contributions is still not well established. With this in mind, we developed an empirical model to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 A. R. G. Santos , M. S. Cunha , P. P. Avelino , W. J. Chaplin , T. L. Campante

The Sun has a steady 11-year cycle in magnetic activity most well-known by the rising and falling in the occurrence of dark sunspots on the solar disk in visible bandpasses. The 11-year cycle is also manifest in the variations of emission…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-19 Ricky Egeland , Willie Soon , Sallie Baliunas , Jeffrey C. Hall , Alexei A. Pevtsov , Gregory W. Henry

The dynamical state of massive clumps is key to our understanding of the formation of massive stars. In this work, we study the kinematic properties of massive clumps using synthetic observations. We have previously compiled a very large…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-22 Zu-Jia Lu , Veli-Matti Pelkonen , Mika Juvela , Paolo Padoan , Troels Haugbølle , Åke Nordlund

The model that describes operation of dynamo in fully convective stars is presented. It is based on representation of stellar magnetic field as a superposition of finite number of poloidal and toroidal free damping modes. In the frame of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. D. Sokoloff , S. N. Nefedov , A. A. Ermash , S. A. Lamzin

The sunspots and other solar activity indicators tend to cluster on the surface of the Sun.These clusters very often occur at certain longitudes that persist in time.It is of general interest to find new and simple ways to characterize the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 J. Pelt , M. J. Korpi , I. Tuominen

Recent data on superflares on sun-like stars and radiocarbon data on solar activity in the past are both indicative of transient epochs of unusually high magnetic activity. We propose an explanation for the grand activity maxima in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-05 L. L. Kitchatinov , S. V. Olemskoy

Magnetic activity is a ubiquitous feature of stars with convective outer layers, with implications from stellar evolution to planetary atmospheres. Investigating the mechanisms responsible for the observed stellar activity signals from days…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-17 Emre Işık , Jennifer L. van Saders , Ansgar Reiners , Travis S. Metcalfe

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 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