A combined Chandra & LAMOST study of stellar activity Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. He L.
  2. Wang S.
  3. Liu J.
  4. Soria R.
  5. Bai Z.
  6. Yang H.
  7. Bai Yu
  8. Guo J.
  9. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We probed stellar X-ray activity over a wide range of stellar parameters, using Chandra and Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) data. We measured the X-ray-to-bolometric luminosity ratio (R_X_=L_X_/L_bol_) for 484 main-sequence stars and found a bimodal distribution for G and K types. We interpret this bimodality as evidence of two subpopulations with different coronal temperatures, which are caused by different coronal heating rates. Using the metallicity and velocity information, we find that both of the subpopulations are mostly located in the thin disk. We find no trend of R_X_ with stellar age for stars older than ~4Gyr; there is a trough in the R_X_ versus age distribution, with the lowest range of R_X_ appearing at ages around 2Gyr. We then examined the correlation between R_X_ and R_H{alpha}_ (proxy of chromospheric activity): we find that the two quantities are well correlated, as found in many earlier studies. Finally, we selected a sample of 12 stars with X-ray flares and studied the light-curve morphology of the flares. The variety of flare profiles and timescales observed in our sample suggests the contribution of different processes of energy release.

Keywords
  1. x-ray-sources
  2. stellar-ages
  3. stellar-masses
  4. stellar-spectral-types
  5. metallicity
  6. stellar-distance
  7. visible-astronomy
  8. Wide-band photometry
  9. line-intensities
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2019ApJ...871..193H
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/871/193
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.18710193

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History

2020-04-22T13:01:09Z
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2020-04-22T13:01:09Z
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2021-07-15T07:24:02Z
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