Outer atmospheres of cool stars. II - MG II flux profiles and chromospheric radiative loss rates

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Dec 1979

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1979apj...234.1023b&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 1, vol. 234, Dec. 15, 1979, p. 1023-1035.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

84

Binary Stars, Chromosphere, Cool Stars, Emission Spectra, Late Stars, Line Spectra, Ultraviolet Spectra, High Resolution, Iue, Magnesium, Spaceborne Astronomy, Stellar Atmospheres, Stellar Gravitation, Stellar Luminosity, Ultraviolet Astronomy

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International Ultraviolet Explorer high-resolution spectra of the Mg II lines at 2796, 2803 A in 15 stars of spectral type G2-M2 including a wide range of luminosities are presented. These spectra are calibrated in absolute flux units at earth and at the stellar surface, and the chromospheric radiative loss rates in the Mg II lines are compared with corresponding rates in the Ca II H, K, and 8542 lines. The ratio of Mg II surface flux to total surface flux is found to be independent of stellar luminosity and thus gravity; may decrease slowly with decreasing effective temperature, and increases with decreasing period among RS Canum Venaticorum binaries. The factor of 10 range in this ratio at each effective temperature may be due to differences in the fractional surface area covered by plages and may indicate that stars of all luminosity classes have chromospheric plages. In this small data sample no evidence is found that the Mg II line surface fluxes indicate whether a star possesses a transition region and hot corona.

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