A Non-LTE Analysis of the Ca II Infrared Triplet as a Diagnostic Tool in Solar-type Stars

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NLTE calculations of the profiles of the Ca II InfraRed Triplet (IRT: λ= 8498, 8542, 8662 Å) are performed for a grid of photospheric models with Teff=4200, 5200, 6200 K, log g=4.0, 4.5, 5.0 and metal=0.0, -1.0, -2.0, showing the sensitivity of the profiles to changes in stellar parameters and the effect of departures from LTE.
Our analysis shows that the correlation between the observed line central depression and rhk found, for instance, by Chmielewski (2000) is mainly due to the effect of v sin i (via the rotation-activity correlation) instead of being the result of a pure chromospheric filling-in of the line core.
We therefore define a new activity index, \caindex, given by the difference between the calculated photospheric central intensity and the observed one. The correlation we find between this purely chromospheric index and rhk, for which we give two interpolation expressions, is more directly related to chromospheric activity.

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