Rotation and activity of T Tauri stars

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Angular Velocity, Dynamo Theory, Stellar Activity, Stellar Rotation, T Tauri Stars, X Ray Sources, Binary Stars, Cross Correlation, K Stars, Late Stars, Light Curve, Ophiuchi Clouds, Stellar Magnetic Fields, Stellar Spectra

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Techniques for determining the rotational velocities of faint stars are reviewed, and preliminary results from observations of 12 T Tau stars (six in the region of Rho Oph) obtained using the Coravel instrument (Benz and Mayor, 1980) on the 1.5-m Danish telescope at ESO during June 1984 are combined with published data on eight other T Tau stars (as well as selected RS CVn systems, dKe-dMe stars, and main-sequence G and K stars) and analyzed. Cross-correlation methods are shown to be more applicable to T Tau stars than those based on Fourier analysis. A log-log plot of the v sin i values determined by this technique versus published X-ray luminosities reveals that X-ray luminosity scales approximately with the square of the rotational velocity, consistent with dynamo models of surface activity in these objects.

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