- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/103/1987
- Title:
- Stars of very low metal abundance
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/103/1987
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Spectroscopic observations for 1044 stars located primarily in the southern Galactic hemisphere are reported; the stars were chosen from a list of candidate metal-deficient stars discovered in the HK objective-prism survey. Radial velocities and line indices based on the equivalent widths of Ca II, K, H-gamma and H-delta, and the CH G band are reported. Estimates of metallicity for 874 stars with derived abundances less than -0.5 are presented.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/90/2089
- Title:
- Stars of very low metal abundance. I
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/90/2089
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- An objective-prism and a narrowband interference filter have been used in combination on the Curtis Schmidt telescope at CTIO to conduct a search for extremely metal-poor stars. The filter restricts the bandpass to the region around the H and K lines of CaII; the metal-poor candidates are those stars with weak or absent H and K. Slit spectra (1 A resolution) of some 450 candidates are used to measure equivalent widths of the CaII K line and Balmer features. A calibration of the K-line strength for giants in the metal-poor globular cluster NGC 6397 and field dwarfs and giants of known metallicity is used to identify survey candidates with metal abundance [Fe/H]<=-2.0; a list of 134 such stars is presented. UBV photometry is used to distinguish between two groups of metal-poor stars: a group with objects near the main-sequence turnoff, on the subgiant branch, and on the giant branch; and a second group with objects on the red horizontal branch (RHB) and asymptotic giant branch (AGB). The RHB-AGB stars exhibit the well-known weak G-band effect; three CH-strong objects are identified among the subgiants.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/147/136
- Title:
- Stars of very low metal abundance. VI. Abundances
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/147/136
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present radial velocities, equivalent widths, model atmosphere parameters, and abundances or upper limits for 53 species of 48 elements derived from high resolution optical spectroscopy of 313 metal-poor stars. A majority of these stars were selected from the metal-poor candidates of the HK Survey of Beers, Preston, and Shectman. We derive detailed abundances for 61% of these stars for the first time. Spectra were obtained during a 10yr observing campaign using the Magellan Inamori Kyocera Echelle spectrograph on the Magellan Telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory, the Robert G. Tull Coude Spectrograph on the Harlan J. Smith Telescope at McDonald Observatory, and the High Resolution Spectrograph on the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory. We perform a standard LTE abundance analysis using MARCS model atmospheres, and we apply line-by-line statistical corrections to minimize systematic abundance differences arising when different sets of lines are available for analysis. We identify several abundance correlations with effective temperature. A comparison with previous abundance analyses reveals significant differences in stellar parameters, which we investigate in detail. Our metallicities are, on average, lower by {approx}0.25dex for red giants and {approx}0.04dex for subgiants. Our sample contains 19 stars with [Fe/H]<=-3.5, 84 stars with [Fe/H]<=-3.0, and 210 stars with [Fe/H]<=-2.5. Detailed abundances are presented here or elsewhere for 91% of the 209 stars with [Fe/H]<=-2.5 as estimated from medium resolution spectroscopy by Beers, Preston, and Shectman. We will discuss the interpretation of these abundances in subsequent papers.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/393/225
- Title:
- Starspot cycles of six young solar analogues
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/393/225
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A long-term photometric monitoring of a selected sample of solar analogues has been carried out since early nineties as part of "The Sun in tim" project, which is aimed at a multiwavelength study of stars with solar-like global properties, but with different ages and thus at different stages of their evolution. The extended time sequence of ground-based observations collected over more than a decade as part of this program has revealed the existence of starspot cycles. Also from these data it is possible to investigate surface differential rotation of the stars. In this paper we present the photometry collected to date and report on cycles search for a selected subsample of five young single G0-G5V stars with ages between ~130Myr and 700Myr: EK Dra, {pi}^1^ UMa, HN Peg, {kappa}^1^ Cet, BE Cet. Also we include in this study the Pleiades-age (~130Myr) K0V star DX Leo (HD 82443). All the cited stars show activity cycles whose period is, furthermore, the first determined from photometric data. They are compared to those activity cycles derived from CaII H&K emission fluxes and differences are discussed. All the cycle periods, except for EK Dra, fit well the empirical relations with global stellar parameters derived from larger stellar samples. The following results are also inferred from the present study: i) the fastest rotating stars tend to have longer cycles; ii) the range in the observed cycle lengths seems to converge with stellar age from a maximum dispersion around the Pleiades' age towards the solar cycle value at the Sun's age; iii) the overall short- and long-term photometric variability increases with inverse Rossby number with very high correlation degree, indicating that the level of magnetic activity at least in photosphere is still controlled by the stellar rotation even on the longest time scales; iiii) the increase with inverse Rossby number of the long-term overall photometric variability seems to level off at the highest rotation rate, which may be interpreted as due to a saturation in the level of photospheric magnetic activity around the activity maximum.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/765/126
- Title:
- Star spot models for M-dwarfs in NGC 2516
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/765/126
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- By combining rotation periods with spectroscopic determinations of projected rotation velocity, Jackson et al. (2009MNRAS.399L..89J) have found that the mean radii for low-mass M-dwarfs in the young, open cluster NGC 2516 are larger than model predictions at a given absolute I magnitude or I-K color and also larger than measured radii of magnetically inactive M-dwarfs. The relative radius difference is correlated with magnitude, increasing from a few percent at M_I_=7 to greater than 50% for the lowest luminosity stars in their sample at M_I_~9.5. Jackson et al. have suggested that a two-temperature star spot model is capable of explaining the observations, but their model requires spot coverage fractions of at least 50% in rapidly rotating M-dwarfs. Here we examine these results in terms of stellar models that include the inhibiting effects of magnetic fields on convective energy transport, with and without the effects of star spots. We find that a pure spot model is inconsistent with the color-magnitude diagram. The observations of radii versus color and radii versus absolute magnitude in NGC 2516 are consistent with models which include only magnetic inhibition or a combination of magnetic inhibition and spots. At a given mass we find a large dispersion in the strength of the vertical component of the magnetic field in the stellar photosphere but the general trend is that the vertical field increases with decreasing mass from a few hundred Gauss at 0.65M_{sun}_ to 600-900G, depending on spot coverage, in the lowest mass stars in the sample at 0.25M_{sun}_.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/622/A85
- Title:
- Starspot rotation rates vs. activity cycle phase
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/622/A85
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- During the solar magnetic activity cycle the emergence latitudes of sunspots change, leading to the well-known butterfly diagram. This phenomenon is poorly understood for other stars since starspot latitudes are generally unknown. The related changes in starspot rotation rates caused by latitudinal differential rotation can however be measured. Using the set of 3093 Kepler stars with activity cycles identified by Reinhold et al. (2017A&A...603A..52R, Cat. J/A+A/603/A52), we aim to study the temporal change in starspot rotation rates over magnetic activity cycles, and how this relates to the activity level, the mean rotation rate of the star, and its effective temperature. We measured the photometric variability as a proxy for the magnetic activity and the spot rotation rate in each quarter over the duration of the Kepler mission. We phase-fold these measurements with the cycle period. To reduce random errors we perform averages over stars with comparable mean rotation rates and effective temperature at fixed activity-cycle phases. We detect a clear correlation between the variation of activity level and the variation of the starspot rotation rate. The sign and amplitude of this correlation depends on the mean stellar rotation and -- to a lesser extent -- on the effective temperature. For slowly rotating stars (rotation periods between 15-28 days) the starspot rotation rates are clearly anti-correlated with the level of activity during the activity cycles. A transition is observed around rotation periods of 10-15 days, where stars with effective temperature above 4200K instead show positive correlation. Our measurements can be interpreted in terms of a stellar "butterfly diagram", but these appear different from the Sun's since the starspot rotation rates are either in phase or anti-phase with the activity level. Alternatively, the activity cycle periods observed by Kepler are short (around 2.5 years) and may therefore be secondary cycles, perhaps analogous to the solar quasi-biennial oscillations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/448/429
- Title:
- Starspots in short-period Kepler binaries
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/448/429
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report on a new method for tracking the phases of the orbital modulations in very short-period, near-contact, and contact binary systems in order to follow starspots. We apply this technique to Kepler light curves for 414 binary systems that were identified as having anticorrelated O-C curves for the mid-times of the primary and secondary eclipses, or in the case of non-eclipsing systems, their light-curve minima. This phase tracking approach extracts more information about starspot and binary system behaviour than may be easily obtained from the O-C curves. We confirm the hypothesis of Tran et al. that we can successfully follow the rotational motions of spots on the surfaces of the stars in these binaries. In ~34% of the systems, the spot rotation is retrograde as viewed in the frame rotating with the orbital motion, while ~13% show significant prograde spot rotation. The remaining systems show either little spot rotation or erratic behaviour, or sometimes include intervals of both types of behaviour. We discuss the possibility that the relative motions of spots are related to differential rotation of the stars. It is clear from this study that the motions of the starspots in at least 50% of these short-period binaries are not exactly synchronized with the orbits.
20608. Starspots on A stars
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/467/1830
- Title:
- Starspots on A stars
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/467/1830
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Rotation modulation of Kepler light curves in mid-A to late-B stars is shown to be present. This is demonstrated by the high correlation of projected rotational velocities with photometric frequencies in 30 stars. The time-frequency diagrams show stochastic variations in all respects similar to those in spotted cool stars. This disposes of any explanation in terms of binary proximity effects. More than half of the sample of stars with effective temperatures in the range of 8300-12000K show rotational modulation, indicating that starspots are the rule rather than the exception among A stars. The periodograms of a subset of these stars show a characteristic pattern in which a broad peak is flanked by a sharp peak at a slightly higher frequency. It is demonstrated that the sharp peak has the same width as the spectral window, indicating a stable period over the duration of the 4-yr Kepler observations. It is speculated that this might be a signature of a reflection effect in a non-transiting planet. These observations suggest that the presence of localized magnetic fields in A and B stars and that current views of radiative stellar envelopes need to be revised.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/476/1224
- Title:
- Starspot variability as X-ray radiation proxy
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/476/1224
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Stellar X-ray emission plays an important role in the study of exoplanets as a proxy for stellar winds and as a basis for the prediction of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) flux, unavailable for direct measurements, which in their turn are important factors for the mass-loss of planetary atmospheres. Unfortunately, the detection thresholds limit the number of stars with the directly measured X-ray fluxes. At the same time, the known connection between the sunspots and X-ray sources allows using of the starspot variability as an accessible proxy for the stellar X-ray emission. To realize this approach, we analysed the light curves of 1729 main-sequence stars with rotation periods 0.5<P<30d and effective temperatures 3236<Teff<7166K observed by the Kepler mission. It was found that the squared amplitude of the first rotational harmonic of a stellar light curve may be used as a kind of activity index. This averaged index revealed practically the same relation with the Rossby number as that in the case of the X-ray to bolometric luminosity ratio R_x_. As a result, the regressions for stellar X-ray luminosity L_x_(P, T_eff_) and its related EUV analogue L_EUV_ were obtained for the main-sequence stars. It was shown that these regressions allow prediction of average (over the considered stars) values of log(L_x_) and log(L_EUV_) with typical errors of 0.26 and 0.22dex, respectively. This, however, does not include the activity variations in particular stars related to their individual magnetic activity cycles.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/III/120
- Title:
- Stars with CaII H and K emission
- Short Name:
- III/120
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Intensities and widths of emission cores of H and K lines from the literature are presented for over 1400 stars of spectral types F, G, K and M.