Poster Open Access
Planet-induced radio emission from the coronae of M dwarfs
Kavanagh, Robert D.;
Vidotto, Aline A.;
Klein, Baptiste;
Jardine, Moira M.;
Donati, Jean-François;
Ó Fionnagáin, Dúalta
Editor(s)
Wolk, ScottThere have recently been detections of radio emission from low-mass stars, some of which are indicative of star-planet interactions. Motivated by these exciting new results, here we present stellar wind models for the active planet-hosting M dwarf AU Mic. Our models incorporate the large-scale photospheric magnetic field map of the star, reconstructed using the Zeeman-Doppler Imaging method. We use our models to assess if planet-induced radio emission could be generated in the corona of AU Mic, through a mechanism analogous to the sub-Alfvénic Jupiter-Io interaction. In the case that AU Mic has a mass-loss rate of < 590 times that of the Sun, we find that both planets b and c in the system can induce radio emission from 10 MHz – 3 GHz in the corona of the host star for the majority of their orbits, with peak flux densities of 10 mJy. Our predicted emission bears a striking similarity to that recently reported from GJ 1151 by Vedantham et al. (2020), which is indicative of being induced by a planet.
| Name | Size | |
|---|---|---|
|
fig.png
md5:a9837125ecbaee147a7f9ec3b8ba99b3 |
1.6 MB | Download |
|
poster.pdf
md5:b19dfcfb3f21600110578e2d7b53c2ea |
9.9 MB | Download |
van der Holst, Bart et al. (2014). Alfvén Wave Solar Model (AWSoM): Coronal Heating.
Klein, Baptiste et al. (2021b). Investigating the young AU Mic system with SPIRou: large-scale stellar magnetic field and close-in planet mass.
Turnpenney, Sam et al. (2018). Exoplanet-induced Radio Emission from M Dwarfs.
Vedantham, Harish et al (2020). Coherent radio emission from a quiescent red dwarf indicative of star-planet interaction.
| All versions | This version | |
|---|---|---|
| Views | 115 | 115 |
| Downloads | 43 | 43 |
| Data volume | 377.4 MB | 377.4 MB |
| Unique views | 98 | 98 |
| Unique downloads | 40 | 40 |
- Publication date:
- February 25, 2021
- DOI:
-
- Keyword(s):
- Cool Stars on the main sequence
- Meeting:
- The 20.5th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun (CS20.5), virtually anywhere, March 2-4, 2021
- Communities:
- License (for files):
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International