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利用磁活动和星系动力学约束M型矮星的年龄

Using Magnetic Activity and Galactic Dynamics to Constrain the Ages of M Dwarfs

Andrew A. West, Suzanne L. Hawley, John J. Bochanski, Kevin R. Covey, Adam J. Burgasser

摘要:

我们提出了一个研究的动力学和磁活动的M矮星使用最大的光谱样本的低质量恒星组装。在M矮星中,强烈的表面磁活动(由H-α追踪)停止的年龄被推断为对质量(光谱类型,表面温度)有很强的依赖性,并解释了以前的结果,这些结果显示在后来的光谱类型中活跃恒星的比例大幅增加。使用光谱观测超过40000 M矮星从斯隆数字巡天,我们表明,活跃的恒星的比例减少作为一个函数的垂直距离从银河系平面(年龄的统计代理),这种减少的幅度变化显着不同的M光谱类型。采用一个简单的薄盘垂直加热动力学模型,我们指定了一个年龄的活动下降,在每一个光谱类型,从而确定活动的M矮星的寿命。此外,我们推导出一个统计的年龄活动关系,为每个光谱类型使用的动力学模型,从平面的垂直距离和H-α发射线亮度的每颗恒星(后者也降低了垂直高度以上的银河平面)。

英文摘要:

We present a study of the dynamics and magnetic activity of M dwarfs using the largest spectroscopic sample of low-mass stars ever assembled. The age at which strong surface magnetic activity (as traced by H-alpha) ceases in M dwarfs has been inferred to have a strong dependence on mass (spectral type, surface temperature) and explains previous results showing a large increase in the fraction of active stars at later spectral types. Using spectral observations of more than 40000 M dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we show that the fraction of active stars decreases as a function of vertical distance from the Galactic plane (a statistical proxy for age), and that the magnitude of this decrease changes significantly for different M spectral types. Adopting a simple dynamical model for thin disk vertical heating, we assign an age for the activity decline at each spectral type, and thus determine the activity lifetimes for M dwarfs. In addition, we derive a statistical age-activity relation for each spectral type using the dynamical model, the vertical distance from the Plane and the H-alpha emission line luminosity of each star (the latter of which also decreases with vertical height above the Galactic plane).

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