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晚M矮星的大尺度磁拓扑

Large-scale magnetic topologies of late M dwarfs

J. Morin, J. F. Donati, P. Petit, X. Delfosse, T. Forveille, M. M. Jardine

摘要:

我们在这里提出的第一次光谱偏振调查的一个小样本的活动M矮星的最终结果,旨在提供观测约束发电机行动的两侧的全对流阈值(光谱类型M4)。我们之前的两项研究(Donati et al. 2008 b; Morin et al. 2008 b)集中在早期和中期M型矮星。本文研究了11个完全对流的晚M矮星(光谱类型M5-M8)。层析成像技术被应用到6颗恒星的圆偏振剖面的时间序列,以推断其大尺度的磁拓扑结构。对于另外3颗恒星,由于斯托克斯V签名的低可变性,我们无法产生这样的磁图,但能够推导出磁场的一些特性。我们发现2个不同类别的磁拓扑结构:一方面强轴对称偶极场(类似于中M矮星),另一方面弱场一般具有显着的非轴对称分量,有时显着的环形。与无符号磁通量的比较表明,第二类磁场显示较少的组织(在大尺度下能量较少),类似于部分对流的早期M矮星。这两类恒星具有相似的恒星参数,我们的数据没有证据表明这两类恒星在质量旋转平面上是分离的。我们还报告边缘检测到一个大规模的磁场上的M8星VB 10具有显着的环形轴对称分量,而没有字段上检测VB 8(M7)。

英文摘要:

We present here the final results of the first spectropolarimetric survey of a small sample of active M dwarfs, aimed at providing observational constraints on dynamo action on both sides of the full-convection threshold (spectral type M4). Our two previous studies (Donati et al. 2008b; Morin et al. 2008b) were focused on early and mid M dwarfs. The present paper examines 11 fully convective late M dwarfs (spectral types M5-M8). Tomographic imaging techniques were applied to time-series of circularly polarised profiles of 6 stars, in order to infer their large-scale magnetic topologies. For 3 other stars we could not produce such magnetic maps, because of low variability of the Stokes V signatures, but were able to derive some properties of the magnetic fields. We find 2 distinct categories of magnetic topologies: on the one hand strong axisymmetric dipolar fields (similar to mid M dwarfs), and on the other hand weak fields generally featuring a significant non-axisymmetric component, and sometimes a significant toroidal one. Comparison with unsigned magnetic fluxes demonstrates that the second category of magnetic fields shows less organization (less energy in the large scales), similarly to partly convective early M dwarfs. Stars in both categories have similar stellar parameters, our data do not evidence a separation between these 2 categories in the mass-rotation plane. We also report marginal detection of a large-scale magnetic field on the M8 star VB 10 featuring a significant toroidal axisymmetric component, whereas no field is detectable on VB 8 (M7).

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