SIMBAD references

2023MNRAS.520.3964X - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 520, 3964-3973 (2023/April-2)

Magnetic topologies of two weak-line T Tauri stars TAP 4 and TAP 40.

XIANG Y., GU S., DONATI J.-F., HUSSAIN G.A.J., CAMERON A.C. (The MaTYSSE Collaboration)

Abstract (from CDS):

We present a Zeeman-Doppler imaging study of two weak-line T Tauri stars TAP 4 and TAP 40, based on the high-resolution spectropolarimetric observations with ESPaDOnS at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in November 2013, in the framework of the Magnetic Topologies of Young Stars and Survival of close-in giant Exoplanets large programme. We apply two Zeeman-Doppler imaging codes to the Stokes I and V profiles to reconstruct their brightness and large-scale magnetic field images. The results given by the two imaging codes are in good agreement with each other. TAP 4 shows a large polar cool spot and several intermediate-latitude warm spots on its surface, whereas TAP 40 exhibits very weak variations in its Stokes I profiles, suggesting a mostly unspotted photosphere. We detect Zeeman signatures in the Stokes V profiles of both stars. The reconstructed magnetic maps reveal dominantly toroidal fields, which enclose about 60 per cent of the total magnetic energy for both TAP 4 and TAP 40. Both stars show prominent circular ring features of the azimuthal magnetic field. We derive a solar-like surface differential rotation on TAP 4 from the tomographic modelling. The brightness image of TAP 4 is used to predict the radial velocity (RV) jitters induced by its activity. After filtering out the activity jitter, the rms of its RVs is reduced from 1.7 to 0.2 km s–1, but we do not detect any periodic signals in the filtered RVs of TAP 4, implying that it is unlikely to host a close-in exoplanet more massive than ∼3.5MJup at 0.1 au.

Abstract Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): techniques: polarimetric - stars: imaging - stars: magnetic fields - stars: individual: TAP 4 - stars: individual: TAP 40

Simbad objects: 11

goto Full paper

goto View the references in ADS

To bookmark this query, right click on this link: simbad:2023MNRAS.520.3964X and select 'bookmark this link' or equivalent in the popup menu