Table · dataset · 2026
The Factory and the Beehive. V.
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Low-mass (<~1.2M_{sun}_) main-sequence stars lose angular momentum over time, leading to a decrease in their magnetic activity.
Description
The details of this rotation-activity relation remain poorly understood, however. Using observations of members of the ~700Myr old Praesepe and Hyades open clusters, we aim to characterize the rotation-activity relation for different tracers of activity at this age.
To complement published data, we obtained new optical spectra for 250 Praesepe stars, new X-ray detections for 10, and new rotation periods for 28. These numbers for Hyads are 131, 23, and 137, respectively. The latter increases the number of Hyads with periods by 50%.
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We used these data to measure the fractional H{alpha} and X-ray luminosities, LH{alpha}/Lbol and LX/Lbol, and to calculate Rossby numbers Ro. We found that at ~700Myr almost all M dwarfs exhibit H{alpha} emission, with binaries having the same overall color-H{alpha} equivalent width distribution as single stars. In the Ro-LH{alpha}/Lbol plane, unsaturated single stars follow a power law with index {beta}=-5.9{\pm}0.8 for Ro>0.3.
In the Ro-LX/Lbol plane, we see evidence for supersaturation for single stars with Ro<~0.01, following a power law with index {beta}_sup_=0.5_-0.1_^+0.2^, supporting the hypothesis that the coronae of these stars are being centrifugally stripped. We found that the critical Ro value at which activity saturates is smaller for LX/Lbol than for LH{alpha}/Lbol. Finally, we observed an almost 1:1 relation between LH{alpha}/Lbol and LX/Lbol, suggesting that both the corona and the chromosphere experience similar magnetic heating.
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Where it is published
- Reference page cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/962/12 ↗
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Documentation and papers
- ADS 2024ApJ...962...12N ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024ApJ...962...12N ↗
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Catalogue records · 2
- VOResource record dc.g-vo.org/oai.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=ivo_vor&identifier=ivo%3… ↗
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- Registry record (GAVO) dc.g-vo.org/I/cds.vizier/j/apj/962/12 ↗
catalogue entry · from IVOA Registry
Topics
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Inferred from text
- Astronomical sciences 72%
Provenance · 1 source records, 11 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
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| IVOA Registry (Virtual Observatory) | ivo://cds.vizier/j/apj/962/12 | 15 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:5101 | enrichment · IVOA Registry | taxonomy-embedding@1.1.0 | title+keywords+description (72%) |
| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].ivoa_waveband:infrared | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].ivoa_waveband:optical | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].ivoa_waveband:x-ray | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | rr.resource.res_description |
| license_text | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
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