Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 2010
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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #349.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.531
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Scientific paper
Using the near-UV and far-UV photometry of the GALEX All-sky Imaging Survey, we study the effects of tidal and magnetic star-planet interactions (SPI) on the stellar activity of the host stars. We compare samples of stars with close-in planets (a < 0.15 AU) to those with far-out planets (a > 1.5 AU) and show that the former group has on average several times the FUV and NUV luminosity of the latter sample. This is consistent with the X-ray results of Kashyap et al. (2008), who speculate that this may be due to the magnetic influence on the star by its innermost planet, as previously observed in several individual hot Jupiter systems. Our study suggests that increased stellar rotation rate due to the tidal interaction with the planet plays the dominant role in increasing the global stellar activity level. For the stars with close-in planets, the FUV and NUV fluxes are anti-correlated with the stellar synchronization time scales but are not correlated for stars with planets at larger orbital distances. Even though the stars with close-in planets are not fully synchronized (full synchronization in most cases will take longer than the age of the Universe), they have already undergone some increase in rotation rate. This result also suggests that the competing force of magnetic drag slowing down the stars is losing out to tidal spin-up in these systems.
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