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利用活动-旋转诊断改进太阳型矮星的年龄估算

Improved Age Estimation for Solar-Type Dwarfs Using Activity-Rotation Diagnostics

Eric E. Mamajek, Lynne A. Hillenbrand

摘要:

虽然色球活动和年龄之间的强反相关导致了Ca II H & K发射指数(R '_HK = L_HK/L_bol)作为太阳型矮星的经验年龄估计的普遍使用,但现有的活动-年龄关系在高和低活动水平下都产生了不可信的年龄。我们从文献中收集了年轻星团的R '_HK数据,首次丰富了活动-年龄关系的年轻端。结合星系团活动数据和现代星系团年龄估计,并分析色球活动年龄指数的颜色依赖性,我们得到了一个改进的F7-K2矮星(0.5 < B-V < 0.9等)的活动年龄刻度。我们还提出了一个更根本的动机的活动年龄校准,依赖于R '_HK值通过Rossby数旋转周期的转换,然后利用改进的陀螺年代学关系。我们证明,我们的新的活动年龄校准具有典型的年龄精度为~0.2德克斯的正常太阳型矮星的毕宿星团和太阳之间(~0.6-4.5 Gyr)。通过活动旋转年龄关系推断年龄占一些颜色依赖的影响,并系统地提高了年龄估计(虽然只有轻微)。我们证明了通过X射线分光度(R_X = L_X/L_bol)测量的日冕活动与通过R '_HK测量的色球活动具有几乎相同的年龄和旋转推断能力。作为我们校准的第一个应用,我们提供了最近的100个太阳型场矮星(d < 15 pc)的新的活动派生的年龄估计。

英文摘要:

While the strong anti-correlation between chromospheric activity and age has led to the common use of the Ca II H & K emission index (R'_HK = L_HK/L_bol) as an empirical age estimator for solar type dwarfs, existing activity-age relations produce implausible ages at both high and low activity levels. We have compiled R'_HK data from the literature for young stellar clusters, richly populating for the first time the young end of the activity-age relation. Combining the cluster activity data with modern cluster age estimates, and analyzing the color-dependence of the chromospheric activity age index, we derive an improved activity-age calibration for F7-K2 dwarfs (0.5 < B-V < 0.9 mag). We also present a more fundamentally motivated activity-age calibration that relies on conversion of R'_HK values through the Rossby number to rotation periods, and then makes use of improved gyrochronology relations. We demonstrate that our new activity-age calibration has typical age precision of ~0.2 dex for normal solar-type dwarfs aged between the Hyades and the Sun (~0.6-4.5 Gyr). Inferring ages through activity-rotation-age relations accounts for some color-dependent effects, and systematically improves the age estimates (albeit only slightly). We demonstrate that coronal activity as measured through the fractional X-ray luminosity (R_X = L_X/L_bol) has nearly the same age- and rotation-inferring capability as chromospheric activity measured through R'_HK. As a first application of our calibrations, we provide new activity-derived age estimates for the nearest 100 solar-type field dwarfs (d < 15 pc).

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