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We study a sample of 21 young and active solar-type stars with spectral types ranging from late F to mid K and characterize the behaviour of their activity. We apply the continuous period search (CPS) time series analysis method on 16 to 27…

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We investigate retrieval of the stellar rotation signal for Proxima Centauri. We make use of high-resolution spectra taken with uves and harps of Proxima Centauri over a 13-year period as well as photometric observations of Proxima Centauri…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-07 John M. Collins , Hugh R. A. Jones , John R. Barnes

We report intensive monitoring of the activity variability in the H$\alpha$ line for 10 Sun-like stars using the 1.88-m reflector at Okayama Branch Office, Subaru Telescope, during the last four years 2019-2022. Our aim was to investigate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-31 Sanghee Lee , Yuta Notsu , Bun'ei Sato

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

We present results from the most comprehensive radio monitoring campaign towards the closest star to our Sun, Proxima Centauri. We report 1.1 to 3.1 GHz observations with the Australian Telescope Compact Array over 18 consecutive days in…

Proxima Centauri is the closest star to the Sun. This small, low-mass, mid M dwarf is known to host an Earth-mass exoplanet with an orbital period of 11.2 days within the habitable zone, as well as a long-period planet candidate with an…

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

Manifestations of activity on the YZ CMi (M4.5Ve) flare star which has a rotation period of 2.77 days and belongs to a group of activity-saturated stars, are considered from long-term photometric data together with photographic measurements…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-04 N. I. Bondar , M. M. Katsova

(Abridged) We report results from a comprehensive study of the nearby M dwarf Proxima Centauri with the XMM-Newton satellite. We find strongly variable coronal X-ray emission, with flares ranging over a factor of 100 in peak flux. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Guedel , M. Audard , F. Reale , S. L. Skinner , J. L. Linsky

Features of the development of activity cycles in the solar-type stars and fast-rotating cool dwarfs have been considered for 65 stars observed in some decades. Cycles with duration of 7-18 years compared to the solar cycle were found for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-25 N. I. Bondar , M. M. Katsova , M. A. Livshits

Magnetic cycles have been detected in tens of solar-like stars. The relationship between the cycle properties and global stellar parameters is not fully understood yet. We searched for activity cycles in 90 solar-like stars with ages…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-11 E. Distefano , A. C. Lanzafame , A. Lanza , S. Messina , F. Spada

We present optical spectroscopy of 710 solar neighborhood stars collected over twenty years to catalog chromospheric activity and search for stellar activity cycles. The California Legacy Survey stars are amenable to exoplanet detection…

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

Recently, new debates about the role of layers of strong shear have emerged in stellar dynamo theory. Further information on the long-term magnetic activity of fully convective stars could help determine whether their underlying dynamo…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-01 R. V. Ibañez Bustos , A. P. Buccino , S. Messina , A. F. Lanza , P. J. D. Mauas

The Fourier analysis of the CME occurrence data observed by the SOHO satellite shows significant power around 1.9 yr., 1.2 yr., 265 day, 39 day and 26 day periodicities which are almost similar to the periodicities detected in the Fourier…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 K. M. Hiremath

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

Studies of solar radio bursts play an important role in understanding the dynamics and acceleration processes behind solar space weather events, and the influence of solar magnetic activity on solar system planets. Similar low-frequency…

Using data of fast-rotating active dwarf stars in the Kepler database, we perform time-frequency analysis of the light curves in order to search for signs of activity cycles. We use the phenomenon that the active region latitudes vary with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 K. Vida , K. Oláh

We study the time variations of the cycles of 20 active stars based on decades-long photometric or spectroscopic observations. A method of time-frequency analysis, as discussed in a companion paper, is applied to the data. Fifteen stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 K. Oláh , Z. Kolláth , T. Granzer , K. G. Strassmeier , A. F. Lanza , S. Järvinen , H. Korhonen , S. L. Baliunas , W. Soon , S. Messina , G. Cutispoto

Different approaches have been adopted to study short- and long-term stellar magnetic activity, and although the mechanisms by which low-mass stars generate large-scale magnetic fields are not well understood, it is known that stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 R. V. Ibañez Bustos , A. P. Buccino , M. Flores , C. F. Martinez , P. J. D. Mauas