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在三个古老和不活跃的类太阳行星宿主恒星中探测磁场

Detection of a magnetic field in three old and inactive solar-like planet-hosting stars

L. Fossati, O. Kochukhov, J. S. Jenkins, R. J. Stancliffe, C. A. Haswell, A. Elmasli, E. Nickson

摘要:

我们对晚型恒星磁场的理解强烈地受到我们对太阳磁场的了解的推动。出于这个原因,了解太阳能发电机的典型性至关重要。要做到这一点,我们需要将太阳的磁场与尽可能类似于太阳的其他恒星的磁场进行比较,无论是在恒星参数和年龄方面,还是在活动方面。在这里,我们提出了一个磁场在三个行星托管类太阳恒星的质量,年龄和活动水平与太阳相媲美的检测。我们使用HARPSpol分光偏振仪获得HD 70642、HD 117207和HD 154088的高分辨率高质量圆偏振光谱,使用最小二乘去卷积技术检测磁场。从斯托克斯I光谱,我们计算出每颗恒星的logR活动指数。我们将赫兹-罗素图中恒星的位置与演化轨迹进行了比较,以估计它们的质量和年龄。我们使用锂丰度,来自斯托克斯光谱,以进一步限制年龄。我们获得了HD 70642和HD 154088的明确磁场检测,而对于HD 117207,我们获得了边缘检测。由于观测的信噪比较低,我们无法在HD 117207和HD 154088的第二组观测中检测到磁场。根据有效温度、质量、年龄和活动水平,这三颗恒星可以被认为是太阳的类似物。HD 70642、HD 117207和HD 154088是比较研究太阳磁场和太阳类似物的理想目标。

英文摘要:

Our understanding of magnetic fields in late-type stars is strongly driven by what we know of the solar magnetic field. For this reason, it is crucial to understand how typical the solar dynamo is. To do this we need to compare the solar magnetic field with that of other stars as similar to the Sun as possible, both in stellar parameters and age, hence activity. We present here the detection of a magnetic field in three planet-hosting solar-like stars having a mass, age, and activity level comparable to that of the Sun. We used the HARPSpol spectropolarimeter to obtain high-resolution high-quality circularly polarised spectra of HD 70642, HD 117207, and HD 154088, using the Least-Squares Deconvolution technique to detect the magnetic field. From the Stokes I spectra, we calculated the logR activity index for each star. We compared the position of the stars in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram to evolutionary tracks, to estimate their mass and age. We used the lithium abundance, derived from the Stokes I spectra, to further constrain the ages. We obtained a definite magnetic field detection for both HD 70642 and HD 154088, while for HD 117207 we obtained a marginal detection. Due to the lower signal-to-noise ratio of the observations, we were unable to detect the magnetic field in the second set of observations available for HD 117207 and HD 154088. On the basis of effective temperature, mass, age, and activity level the three stars can be considered solar analogs. HD 70642, HD 117207, and HD 154088 are ideal targets for a comparative study between the solar magnetic field and that of solar analogs.

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