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We report on the coronal activity cycles of our stellar neighbors alpha Centauri A/B. The binary has been monitored with XMM-Newton since 2002 to study the long-term evolution of coronal activity evolution in X-rays. The solar analog alpha…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 J. Robrade , J. H. M. M. Schmitt

We use X-ray observations of the nearby binaries 61 Cyg A/B (K5V and K7V) and Alpha Cen A/B (G2V and K1V) to study the long-term evolution of magnetic activity in weakly to moderately active G + K dwarfs over nearly a decade. Specifically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 J. Robrade , J. H. M. M. Schmitt , F. Favata

We present first results from five XMM-Newton observations of the binary system Alpha Centauri, which has been observed in snapshot like exposures of roughly two hours each during the last two years. In all our observations the X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Robrade , J. H. M. M. Schmitt , F. Favata

Although chromospheric activity cycles have been studied in a larger number of late-type stars for quite some time, very little is known about coronal activity-cycles in other stars and their similarities or dissimilarities with the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 S. Lalitha , J. H. M. M. Schmitt

Using long-term X-ray observations, we present the short-term and long-term X-ray variability analysis of the ultra-fast rotating active star AB Dor. Flaring events are common in X-ray observations of AB Dor and occupy a substantial portion…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-01 Gurpreet Singh , Jeewan C. Pandey

(abridged) Our long-term XMM-Newton program of long-term monitoring of a solar-like star with a well-studied chromospheric cycle, HD 81809 aims to study whether an X-ray cycle is present, along with studying its characteristics and its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Favata , G. Micela , S. Orlando , J. H. M. M. Schmitt , S. Sciortino , J. Hall

We analyze the X-ray emission and chromospheric activity of Sun-like stars of F, G and K spectral classes (late-type stars) studied in the framework of the HK project. More powerful coronas are possessed by stars displaying irregular…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-19 E. A. Bruevich , M. M. Katsova , D. D. Sokolov

Chromospheric activity cycles are common in late-type stars; however, only a handful of coronal activity cycles have been discovered. \ihor\ is the most active and youngest star with known coronal cycles. It is also a young solar analog,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 J. Sanz-Forcada , B. Stelzer , M. Coffaro , S. Raetz , J. D. Alvarado-Gómez

The following is a progress report on the long-term coronal activity of Alpha Centauri A (HD128620: G2V) and B (HD128621: K1V). Since 2005, Chandra X-ray Observatory has carried out semiannual pointings on AB, mainly with the High…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Thomas R. Ayres

Context: The shortest chromospheric (Ca II H&K) activity cycle (1.6 yr) has been recently discovered in the young (~600 Myr) solar-like star iota Hor. Coronal X-ray activity cycles have only been discovered in a few stars other than the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-07 J. Sanz-Forcada , B. Stelzer , T. S. Metcalfe

Stellar activity cycles are known to be a widespread phenomenon amongst moderately active solar- and late-type stars from long-term periodic variations in chromospheric Ca II H and K emission lines, yet to date only a handful of coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-31 John Hoffman , Hans Moritz Günther , Nick Wright

Aims. The data set of the long-term XMM-Newton monitoring program of HD 81809 is analyzed to study its X-ray cycle, to investigate if the latter is related to the chromospheric one, to infer the structure of the corona of HD 81809, and to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-06 S. Orlando , F. Favata , G. Micela , S. Sciortino , A. Maggio , J. H. M. M. Schmitt , J. Robrade , M. Mittag

Throughout an activity cycle, magnetic structures rise to the stellar surface, evolve and decay. Tracing their evolution on a stellar corona allows us to characterize the X-ray cycles. However, directly mapping magnetic structures is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 M. Coffaro , B. Stelzer , S. Orlando

We present the initial results from our XMM program aimed at searching for X-ray activity cycles in solar-type stars. HD 81809 is a G2-type star (somewhat more evolved than the Sun, and with a less massive companion) with a pronounced 8.2…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Favata , G. Micela , S. L. Baliunas

XZ Tau AB is a frequently observed binary YSO in the Taurus Molecular Cloud; XZ Tau B has been classified as an EXOr object. We present new Chandra/HETG-ACIS-S observations of XZ Tau AB, complemented with variability monitoring of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-17 Steven M. Silverberg , Hans Moritz Guenther , Pragati Pradhan , David A. Principe , P. C. Schneider , Scott J. Wolk

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

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

The Chandra X-ray observatory monitored the single cool star, AB Doradus, continuously for a period lasting 88ksec (1.98 Prot) in 2002 December with the LETG/HRC-S. The X-ray lightcurve shows significant rotational modulation. It can be…

Four years (2010-2014) of semiannual pointings by Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on nearby Alpha Centauri have yielded a detailed time history of far-ultraviolet emissions of the solar-like primary (A: G2V) and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-04 Thomas R. Ayres

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
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