Large-scale magnetic topologies of mid-M dwarfs

Details Large-scale magnetic topologies of mid-M dwarfs Large-scale magnetic topologies of mid-M dwarfs

2008-08-10

arxiv.org/abs/0808.1423v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.390:567-581,2010

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

17 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13809.x

We present in this paper the first results of a spectropolarimetric analysis of a small sample (~ 20) of active stars ranging from spectral type M0 to M8, which are either fully-convective or possess a very small radiative core. This study aims at providing new constraints on dynamo processes in fully-convective stars. The present paper focuses on 5 stars of spectral type ~M4, i.e. with masses close to the full convection threshold (~ 0.35 Msun), and with short rotational periods. Tomographic imaging techniques allow us to reconstruct the surface magnetic topologies from the rotationally modulated time-series of circularly polarised profiles. We fnd that all stars host mainly axisymmetric large-scale poloidal fields. Three stars were observed at two different epochs separated by ~1 yr; we find the magnetic topologies to be globally stable on this timescale. We also provide an accurate estimation of the rotational period of all stars, thus allowing us to start studying how rotation impacts the large-scale magnetic field.

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