Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-05-06
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
37 pages, 12 figures. To appear in the Astronomical Journal
Scientific paper
The completion of the GALEX All-Sky Survey in the ultraviolet allows activity measurements to be acquired for many more stars than is possible with the limited sensitivity of ROSAT or the limited sky coverage of Chandra, XMM, or spectroscopic surveys for line emission in the optical or ultraviolet. We have explored the use of GALEX photometry as an activity indicator, using as a calibration sample stars within 50 pc, representing the field, and in selected nearby associations, representing the youngest stages of stellar evolution. We present preliminary relations between UV flux and the optical activity indicator R'_HK and between UV flux and age. We demonstrate that far-UV (FUV, 1350-1780{\AA}) excess flux is roughly proportional to R'_HK. We also detect a correlation between near-UV (NUV, 1780-2830{\AA}) flux and activity or age, but the effect is much more subtle, particularly for stars older than than ~0.5-1 Gyr. Both the FUV and NUV relations show large scatter, ~0.2 mag when predicting UV flux, ~0.18 dex when predicting R'_HK, and ~0.4 dex when predicting age. This scatter appears to be evenly split between observational errors in current state-of-the-art data and long-term activity variability in the sample stars.
Findeisen Krzysztof
Hillenbrand Lynne
Soderblom David
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