Simulated X-ray cycles in rapidly rotating solar-like stars

Details Simulated X-ray cycles in rapidly rotating solar-like stars Simulated X-ray cycles in rapidly rotating solar-like stars

Apr 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006mnras.367..592m&link_type=abstract

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 367, Issue 2, pp. 592-598.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Stars: Activity, Stars: Coronae, Stars: Late-Type, Stars: Magnetic Fields, Stars: Rotation, X-Rays: Stars

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It is generally accepted that the presence of a hot magnetic corona provides the source of X-ray emission in cool stars. With this connection one could expect to see the variation of magnetic flux in the activity cycle of a star mirrored by a similar variation in the stars X-ray emission. Using magnetic maps produced from flux emergence and transport simulations and assuming a potential field for the corona, we can extrapolate the coronal magnetic field and hence calculate the variation of the X-ray emission. We consider three types of activity cycle that successfully reproduce the pattern of intermingled magnetic flux at high latitudes, a feature observed with Zeeman-Doppler imaging. The three different cycles take the form of (1) an enhanced butterfly pattern where flux emergence is extended to a latitude of 70°, (2) an extended emergence profile as before but with an overlap of 4 yr in the butterfly diagram and (3) where no butterfly diagram is used. The cyclic variation in the X-ray emission is around two orders of magnitude for cases (1) and (3), but less than one order of magnitude for case (2). For all three cases, the rotational modulation of the X-ray emission is greatest at cycle minimum, but the emission measure weighted density varies little over the cycle. For cases (1) and (2) the fraction of the total flux that is open (along which a wind can escape) varies little over the cycle, but for case (3) this is three times larger at cycle minimum than at maximum. Our results clearly show that although magnetic cycles may exist for stars they are not necessarily observable in the X-ray emission.

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