Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 1999
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999aas...194.6705b&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 194th AAS Meeting, #67.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 31, p.930
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
Observations of low-mass stars in clusters (see, e.g. Krishnamurthi et al. 1998) show a mass-dependent saturation of the angular momentum loss rate, which is commonly explained by invoking saturation of the stellar dynamo mechanism (Keppens et al 1995). Explanation of the observed saturation is complicated, however, by the observation that different activity indicators appear to saturate at quite different rotational velocities (O'Dell et al 1995). Both Buzasi (1997, 1999) and Solanki et al. (1997) have argued that the poleward movement of rising flux tubes in rapidly rotating lower main sequence stars may provide a natural mechanism for concentrating surface magnetic flux where it only poorly couples to the stellar wind; this mechanism would then explain the observed saturation of angular momentum loss rates at high rotational velocities. In this paper, I explore whether this model can be extended to explain the different saturation velocities observed for different indicators, such as photometric amplitude and chromospheric activity.
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