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利用星点观测研究恒星表面自转

Investigating stellar surface rotation using observations of starspots

H. Korhonen

摘要:

快速旋转增强了恒星中的发电机,因此也引入了比在较慢旋转体中看到的更强的磁活动。许多年轻的冷恒星仍然具有快速的原始自转速率,这是由形成它们的星际分子云引起的。在密近双星系统中,较老的恒星通常是快速旋转的。这些类型的恒星可以显示出强烈的磁活动和大的星点。在大的恒星黑子的情况下,可以观察到恒星亮度的变化,甚至是谱线轮廓的形状,人们可以得到恒星旋转的信息。有时甚至可以获得不同恒星纬度上的黑子自转信息,类似于使用磁特征作为示踪剂的太阳表面差异自转测量。在这里,我将回顾基于星点的恒星自转研究。我将讨论我们可以从地面测光中获得什么,以及如何通过不间断的高精度太空观测来改进。重点将放在如何恒星黑子,甚至恒星表面的差异旋转,可以使用高分辨率光谱研究。

英文摘要:

Rapid rotation enhances the dynamo operating in stars, and thus also introducessignificantly stronger magnetic activity than is seen in slower rotators. Many young cool stars still have the rapid, primordial rotation rates induced by the interstellar molecular cloud from which they were formed. Also older stars in close binary systems are often rapid rotators. These types of stars can show strong magnetic activity and large starspots. In the case of large starspots which cause observable changes in the brightness of the star, and even in the shapes of the spectral line profiles, one can get information on the rotation of the star. At times even information on the spot rotation at different stellar latitudes can be obtained, similarly to the solar surface differential rotation measurements using magnetic features as tracers. Here, I will review investigations of stellar rotation based on starspots. I will discuss what we can obtain from ground-based photometry and how that improves with the uninterrupted, high precision, observations from space. The emphasis will be onhow starspots, and even stellar surface differential rotation, can be studied using high resolution spectra.

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