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与红矮星共存:FUV & dM恒星的X射线辐射和对宿主行星的影响

Living with a Red Dwarf: FUV & X-ray emissions of dM stars and effects on hosted Planets

Scott G. Engle, Edward F. Guinan, Trisha Mizusawa

摘要:

红矮星(dM)是银河系中数量最多的恒星。这些冷、暗、低质量的恒星占所有恒星的80%以上。此外,dM恒星有极长的寿命(超过50-100 Gyr)。确定拥有行星的红矮星的数量和评估行星的可居住性(行星发展和维持生命的潜力)至关重要,因为这些研究将表明宇宙中生命的普遍程度。我们的计划-“与红矮星生活在一起”-通过调查具有广泛不同年龄(~ 5000万年- 12 Gyr)的红矮星的长期核演化和日冕和色球特性来解决这些问题。该方案的一个主要重点是研究磁力发电机产生的日冕和色球X射线-FUV/UV发射和dM 0 - 5恒星样本的耀斑特性。FUSE对一些年轻到年老的dM星进行的观测为了解这些具有深对流区的恒星的过渡区加热以及提供FUV辐照度的测量提供了重要数据。还研究了X射线-FUV辐射对可能有宿主行星的影响以及这种辐射对这些行星的可居住性的影响。利用这些数据,我们正在构建辐照度表(X-UV辐照度),可用于模拟XUV辐射对行星大气和行星表面可能存在的生命的影响。讨论了该方案的初步结果。

英文摘要:

Red Dwarf (dM) stars are overwhelmingly the most numerous stars in our Galaxy. These cool, faint and low mass stars make up more than 80% of all stars. Also dM stars have extremely long life times (longer than 50-100 Gyr). Determining the number of red dwarfs with planets and assessing planetary habitability (a planet's potential to develop and sustain life) is critically important because such studies would indicate how common life is in the universe. Our program - "Living with a Red Dwarf" - addresses these questions by investigating the long-term nuclear evolution and the coronal and chromospheric properties of red dwarf stars with widely different ages (~50 Myr -- 12 Gyr). One major focus of the program is to study the magnetic-dynamo generated coronal and chromospheric X-ray--FUV/UV emissions and flare properties of a sample of dM0--5 stars. Observations carried out by FUSE of a number of young to old dM stars provide important data for understanding transition region heating in these stars with deep convective zones as well as providing measures of FUV irradiances. Also studied are the effects of X-ray--FUV emissions on possible hosted planets and impacts of this radiation on their habitability. Using these data we are constructing irradiance tables (X-UV irradiances) that can be used to model the effects of XUV radiation on planetary atmospheres and possible life on planetary surfaces. The initial results of this program are discussed.

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