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Dec 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005aas...20710405m&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society Meeting 207, #104.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 37, p.1334
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A decade worth of data from the Soft X-ray Telescope onboard the Japan/US/UK mission Yohkoh shows that the Sun has a variation of non-flaring disk-integrated soft X-ray emission (0.4 - 2.4 keV) of about a factor 30 over its sunspot cycle. To date no cyclic variation of that magnitude has been observed in other late-type stars.
We show that this negative result is partly explained by the inclusion of EUV emission in stellar observations done with ROSAT: we calculated what the solar signal would be if observed in the ROSAT passband and found a cycle amplitude of a factor two to three. That leaves open the question of the cycle amplitude in soft X-rays for solar-type stars.
To adress this we analysed ROSAT data for the energy band above the C-K edge, but found no sufficiently frequent observations of individual stars. The next best approach is to compare the measured soft X-ray flux for singly observed stars with the average flux predicted from the star's Rossby number: if cycles with amplitudes as large as that of the Sun exist, the residual fluxes should be statistically significant. From a sample of about 15 single and cyclic late-type stars (as evidenced from Ca-K data) we find that with 99.6% certainty the residual fluxes are due to X-ray cycles that are similar to or greater than that of the Sun.
Acton W. A. L.
Chattterjee P.
Martens Petrus C. H.
Saar Steven H.
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