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Title: | Activity-rotation in the dM4 star Gl 729. A possible chromospheric cycle | Authors: | R. V. Ibañez Bustos A. P. Buccino Messina, S. LANZA, Antonino Francesco P. J. D. Mauas |
Issue Date: | 2020 | Journal: | ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS | Number: | 644 | Issue: | A2 | First Page: | 1 | Abstract: | Recently, new debates about the role of layers of strong shear have emerged in stellar dynamo theory. Further information on the long-term magnetic activity of fully convective stars could help determine whether their underlying dynamo could sustain activity cycles similar to the solar one. We performed a thorough study of the short- and long-term magnetic activity of the young active dM4 star Gl 729. First, we analyzed long-cadence $K2$ photometry to characterize its transient events (e.g., flares) and global and surface differential rotation. Then, from the Mount Wilson $S$-indexes derived from CASLEO spectra and other public observations, we analyzed its long-term activity between 1998 and 2020 with four different time-domain techniques to detect cyclic patterns. Finally, we explored the chromospheric activity at different heights with simultaneous measurements of the H$\alpha$ and the Na I D indexes, and we analyzed their relations with the $S$-Index. We found that the cumulative flare frequency follows a power-law distribution with slope $\sim- 0.73$ for the range $10^{32}$ to $10^{34}$ erg. We obtained $P_{rot} = (2.848 \pm 0.001)$ days, and we found no evidence of differential rotation. We also found that this young active star presents a long-term activity cycle with a length of $\text{about four}$ years; there is less significant evidence of a shorter cycle of $0.8$ year. The star also shows a broad activity minimum between 1998 and 2004. We found a correlation between the S index, on the one hand, and the H$\alpha$ the Na I D indexes, on the other hand, although the saturation level of these last two indexes is not observed in the Ca lines. Because the maximum-entropy spot model does not reflect migration between active longitudes, this activity cycle cannot be explained by a solar-type dynamo. It is probably caused by an $\alpha^2$-dynamo. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/29680 | URL: | https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/12/aa39164-20/aa39164-20.html https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020A%26A...644A...2I/abstract |
ISSN: | 0004-6361 | DOI: | 10.1051/0004-6361/202039164 | Fulltext: | open |
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