2023MNRAS.524.2042E -
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 524, 2042-2063 (2023/September-2)
The winds of young Solar-type stars in the Pleiades, AB Doradus, Columba, and β Pictoris.
EVENSBERGET D., MARSDEN S.C., CARTER B.D., SALMERON R., VIDOTTO A.A., FOLSOM C.P., KAVANAGH R.D., PINEDA J.S., DRIESSEN F.A. and STRICKERT K.M.
Abstract (from CDS):
Solar-type stars, which shed angular momentum via magnetized stellar winds, enter the main sequence with a wide range of rotational periods Prot. This initially wide range of rotational periods contracts and has mostly vanished by a stellar age $t\sim {0.6}\, {\rm Gyr}$, after which Solar-type stars spin according to the Skumanich relation $P_\text{rot}\propto \sqrt{t}$. Magnetohydrodynamic stellar wind models can improve our understanding of this convergence of rotation periods. We present wind models of 15 young Solar-type stars aged ∼24 Myr to ∼0.13 Gyr. With our previous wind models of stars aged ∼0.26 and ∼0.6 Gyr we obtain 30 consistent three-dimensional wind models of stars mapped with Zeeman-Doppler imaging - the largest such set to date. The models provide good cover of the pre-Skumanich phase of stellar spin-down in terms of rotation, magnetic field, and age. We find the mass-loss rate $\dot{M}\propto \Phi ^{{0.9\pm 0.1}}$ with a residual spread of ∼150 per cent and the wind angular momentum loss rate $\dot{J}\propto {}P_\text{rot}^{-1} \Phi ^{1.3\pm 0.2}$ with a residual spread of ∼500 per cent where Φ is the unsigned surface magnetic flux. When comparing different magnetic field scalings for each single star we find a gradual reduction in the power-law exponent with increasing magnetic field strength.
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© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society
Journal keyword(s):
Sun: evolution - stars: evolution - stars: magnetic field - stars: rotation - stars: solar-type - stars: winds, outflows
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