Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-11-22
Astrophys.J. 621 (2005) 1009-1022
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
23 pages, 10 figures. Accepted by ApJ
Scientific paper
10.1086/427721
The zero-age main-sequence star AB Dor and the K dwarf component of the V471 Tau close binary have essentially identical rotation rates and spectral types. An analysis of their high resolution {\it Chandra} X-ray spectra reveals remarkably similar coronal characteristics in terms of both temperature structure and element abundances. Both stars show depletions of low FIP elements by factors of $\sim 3$, with higher FIP elements showing more mild depletions. No evidence for enhancements of very low FIP ($< 7$ eV) elements, such as Na, Al and Ca, as compared to other low FIP elements was found. The abundance anomaly pattern for AB Dor and V471 Tau is similar to, though less extreme than, the abundance anomalies exhibited by active RS-CVn-type binaries. While we find statistically significant structure in the underlying differential emission measure distributions of these stars over narrow temperature intervals, this structure is strongly dependent on the lines used in the analysis and is probably spurious. Based on their X-ray similarities, we conclude that the exact evolutionary state of a star has little effect on coronal characteristics, and that the parameters that dominate coronal structure and composition are simply the rotation rate and spectral type.
Ball Brian
Drake Jeremy J.
Garcia-Alvarez David
Kashyap Vinay L.
Lin Lin
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