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增强恒星活动缓慢反太阳差异旋转?

Enhanced stellar activity for slow antisolar differential rotation?

Axel Brandenburg, Mark S. Giampapa

摘要:

利用开普勒/K2的数据对疏散星团M67中的类太阳成员进行的高精度测光最近揭示了具有大Rossby数的恒星的活动增强,Rossby数是旋转周期与对流周转时间的比值。与较短的自转周期和较小的Rossby数的既定行为相反,M67中自转较慢的恒星的色球活动随着Rossby数的增加而增加。这种行为以前从未被报道过,尽管理论上预测它是由于Rossby数大于太阳的恒星的反太阳差异旋转(DR)的结果,因为在这些模型中,DR的绝对值被发现超过了类似太阳的DR。我们与仅使用B-V颜色计算的旋转速率进行比较。由此产生的旋转-活动关系被认为是兼容的,通过采用测得的旋转速率。这提供了额外的支持,非常规的增强活动在相对较低的旋转速率和可能存在的反太阳差异旋转。

英文摘要:

High precision photometry of solar-like members of the open cluster M67 with Kepler/K2 data has recently revealed enhanced activity for stars with a large Rossby number, which is the ratio of rotation period to the convective turnover time. Contrary to the well established behavior for shorter rotation periods and smaller Rossby numbers, the chromospheric activity of the more slowly rotating stars of M67 was found to increase with increasing Rossby number. Such behavior has never been reported before, although it was theoretically predicted to emerge as a consequence of antisolar differential rotation (DR) for stars with Rossby numbers larger than that of the Sun, because in those models the absolute value of the DR was found to exceed that for solar-like DR. Using gyrochronological relations and an approximate age of 4 Gyr for the members of M67, we compare with computed rotation rates using just the B-V color. The resulting rotation--activity relation is found to be compatible with that obtained by employing the measured rotation rate. This provides additional support for the unconventional enhancement of activity at comparatively low rotation rates and the possible presence of antisolar differential rotation.

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