Magnetic activity on AB Doradus: Temporal evolution of starspots and differential rotation from 1988 to 1994

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2006-10-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0610259v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.375:567-583,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

accepted by MNRAS 18 pages 18 figures

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.11154.x

Surface brightness maps for the young K0 dwarf AB Doradus are reconstructed from archival data sets for epochs spanning 1988 to 1994. By using the signal-to-noise enhancement technique of Least-Squares Deconvolution, our results show a greatly increased resolution of spot features than obtained in previously published surface brightness reconstructions. These images show that for the exception of epoch 1988.96, the starspot distributions are dominated by a long-lived polar cap, and short-lived low to high latitude features. The fragmented polar cap at epoch 1988.96 could indicate a change in the nature of the dynamo in the star. For the first time we measure differential rotation for epochs with sufficient phase coverage (1992.05, 1993.89, 1994.87). These measurements show variations on a timescale of at least one year, with the strongest surface differential rotation ever measured for AB Dor occurring in 1994.86. In conjunction with previous investigations, our results represent the first long-term analysis of the temporal evolution of differential rotation on active stars.

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