Magnetic field and velocity of early M dwarfs Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Donati J.-F.
  2. Morin J.
  3. Petit P.
  4. Delfosse X.
  5. Forveille T.
  6. Auriere M.,Cabanac R.
  7. Dintrans B.
  8. Fares R.
  9. Gastine T.
  10. Jardine M.M.
  11. Lignieres F.,Paletou F.
  12. Ramirez Velez J.C.
  13. Theado S.
  14. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present here additional results of a spectropolarimetric survey of a small sample of stars ranging from spectral type M0 to M8 aimed at investigating observationally how dynamo processes operate in stars on both sides of the full convection threshold (spectral type M4). The present paper focuses on early M stars (M0-M3), that is above the full convection threshold. Applying tomographic imaging techniques to time series of rotationally modulated circularly polarized profiles collected with the NARVAL spectropolarimeter, we determine the rotation period and reconstruct the large-scale magnetic topologies of six early M dwarfs. We find that early-M stars preferentially host large-scale fields with dominantly toroidal and non-axisymmetric poloidal configurations, along with significant differential rotation (and long-term variability); only the lowest-mass star of our subsample is found to host an almost fully poloidal, mainly axisymmetric large-scale field resembling those found in mid-M dwarfs.

Keywords
  1. m-stars
  2. magnetic-fields
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2008MNRAS.390..545D
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IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/390/545
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.73900545

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2010-07-27T16:31:38Z
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2010-07-27T16:31:38Z
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