HST/COS far-UV spectra of AU Microscopii flares Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Feinstein A.D.
  2. France K.
  3. Youngblood A.
  4. Duvvuri G.M.
  5. Teal D.J.,Cauley P.W.
  6. Seligman D.Z.
  7. Gaidos E.
  8. Kempton E.M.-R.
  9. Bean J.L.,Diamond-Lowe H.
  10. Newton E.
  11. Ginzburg S.
  12. Plavchan P.
  13. Gao P.
  14. Schlichting H.
  15. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

High-energy X-ray and ultraviolet (UV) radiation from young stars impacts planetary atmospheric chemistry and mass loss. The active ~22Myr M-dwarf AU-Mic hosts two exoplanets orbiting interior to its debris disk. Therefore, this system provides a unique opportunity to quantify the effects of stellar X-ray and UV irradiation on planetary atmospheres as a function of both age and orbital separation. In this paper, we present over 5hr of far-UV (FUV) observations of AU-Mic taken with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS; 1070-1360{AA}) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). We provide an itemization of 120 emission features in the HST/COS FUV spectrum and quantify the flux contributions from formation temperatures ranging from 104 to 107K. We detect 13 flares in the FUV white-light curve with energies ranging from 1029 to 1031erg/s. The majority of the energy in each of these flares is released from the transition region between the chromosphere and the corona. There is a 100x increase in flux at continuum wavelengths {lambda}<1100{AA} in each flare, which may be caused by thermal Bremsstrahlung emission. We calculate that the baseline atmospheric mass-loss rate for AU-Micb is ~108g/s, although this rate can be as high as ~1014g/s during flares with L_flare_~10^33^erg/s. Finally, we model the transmission spectra for AU-Micb and c with a new panchromatic spectrum of AU Mic and motivate future JWST observations of these planets.

Keywords
  1. m-stars
  2. stellar-flares
  3. spectroscopy
  4. ultraviolet-astronomy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2022AJ....164..110F
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doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.51640110

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2023-01-30T06:30:32Z
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