10.5281/zenodo.154118
https://zenodo.org/records/154118
oai:zenodo.org:154118
Egeland, Ricky
Ricky
Egeland
High Altitude Observatory
Willie Soon
Willie Soon
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Sallie Baliunas
Sallie Baliunas
Jeffrey C. Hall
Jeffrey C. Hall
Lowell Observatory
Alexei A. Pevtsov
Alexei A. Pevtsov
National Solar Observatory
Gregory W. Henry
Gregory W. Henry
Tennessee State University
Dynamo Sensitivity in Solar Analogs with 50 Years of Ca II H & K Activity
Zenodo
2016
Sun
Solar Analogs
Stellar Rotation
Stellar Activity
Long-Term Variability
Felden, Gregory A.
Gregory A.
Felden
Uppsala University, University of North Georgia
2016-09-15
arXiv:1609.04756
https://zenodo.org/communities/cs19
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
The Sun has a steady 11-year cycle in magnetic activity most well-known by the rising and falling in the occurrence of dark sunspots on the solar disk in visible bandpasses. The 11-year cycle is also manifest in the variations of emission in the Ca II H & K line cores, due to non-thermal (i.e. magnetic) heating in the lower chromosphere. The large variation in Ca II H & K emission allows for study of the patterns of long-term variability in other stars thanks to synoptic monitoring with the Mount Wilson Observatory HK photometers (1966-2003) and Lowell Observatory Solar-Stellar Spectrograph (1994-present). Overlapping measurements for a set of 27 nearby solar-analog (spectral types G0-G5) stars were used to calibrate the two instruments and construct time series of magnetic activity up to 50 years in length. Precise properties of fundamental importance to the dynamo are available from Hipparcos, the Geneva-Copenhagen Survey, and CHARA interferometry. Using these long time series and measurements of fundamental properties, we do a comparative study of stellar "twins" to explore the sensitivity of the stellar dynamo to small changes to structure, rotation, and composition. We also compare this sample to the Sun and find hints that the regular periodic variability of the solar cycle may be rare among its nearest neighbors in parameter space.
Based on presentation given at the Cool Stars 19 Monday Morning Plenary Session, 11:00-11:20