The 21st Cambridge workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun
Published November 21, 2022 | Version v1
Poster Open

Where are the stellar coronal mass ejections?

Creators

  • 1. Konkoly Thege Miklós Astronomical Institute, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences
  • 2. Institute of Physics/IGAM, University of Graz

Description

Stellar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) can have serious effects on their surroundings: they can erode or completely destroy atmospheres of orbiting planets over time and also have high importance in stellar evolution. Most of the stellar CME detections in the literature are single events found serendipitously sparse for statistical investigation. We present a search in archive spectra of dwarf stars from solar-like objects to M-dwarfs aimed to find a large number of stellar CMEs suitable for statistical analysis. For M-dwarfs, we found event rates that are lower than we could expect from the solar paradigm, and no convincing events for solar-like stars. What can be behind this low number of events? Can high-resolution solar spectra help us to learn more on stellar CMEs?

Notes

This work was supported by the Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office grant NKFIH (OTKA) K-131508 and by the NKFIH grant 2019-2.1.11-TÉT-2019-00056. Authors acknowledge the financial support of the Austrian-Hungarian Action Foundation (101öu13, 104öu2). L.K. acknowledges the financial support of the Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office grant NKFIH PD-134784. L.K. and K.V. are Bolyai János Research Fellows.

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