2025ApJ...983L..31C

Determining stellar ages is challenging, particularly for cooler main-sequence (MS) stars. Magnetic evolution offers an observational alternative for age estimation via the age-chromospheric activity (AC) relation. We evaluate the impact of metallicity on this relation using near one-solar-mass stars across a wide metallicity range. We analyze a sample of 358 solar-type stars with precise spectroscopic parameters determined through a line-by-line differential technique and with ages derived using Yonsei-Yale isochrones. We measured chromospheric activity (S-index) using high-quality High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher spectra, calibrated to the Mount Wilson system and converted to the ${R}_{{\rm{HK}}}^{{\prime} }({T}_{{\rm{eff}}})$ index with a temperature-based photospheric correction. Our findings show that the AC relation for ${R}_{{\rm{HK}}}^{{\prime} }({T}_{{\rm{eff}}})$ is strongly influenced by metallicity. We propose a new age-activity-metallicity relation for solar-type MS stars ($\mathrm{log}\,g\gtrsim 4.2$) with temperatures 5370 ≲ T_eff ≲ 6530 K and metallicities from -0.7 to +0.3 dex. We show that taking metallicity into account significantly enhances chromospheric ages' reliability, reducing the residuals' rms relative to isochronal ages from 2.6 to 0.92 Gyr. This reflects a considerable improvement in the errors of chromospheric ages, from 53% to 15%. The precision level achieved in this work is also consistent with previous age-activity calibration from our group using solar twins.