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2025MNRAS.542.2431L - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 542, 2431-2442 (2025/September-3)

Chromospheric activity of FGKM-type dwarfs in open clusters up to 6 Gyr.

LONG L., BI S., YE L., SUN T., ZHOU J., ZHANG L., ZHANG X., LI M., LU Z. and WANG L.

Abstract (from CDS):

The chromospheric activity of low-mass stars in open clusters is crucial for investigating activity-age-rotation relations. We present the chromospheric activity indicator ($R^{\prime }_{\rm H\alpha }$) of 8493 FGKM-type stars in 152 open clusters with ages ranging from 20 Myr to 6 Gyr, and investigate the relations among chromospheric activity, age, effective temperature $T_{\rm eff}$, and rotation. The activity-$T_{\rm eff}$ relations reveal different chromospheric activity trends in single and binary stars of different spectral types. In late F-, G-, and early M-type single and binary stars, activity increases rapidly with a decrease in $T_{\rm eff}$. In contrast, the activity of K-type stars tends to flatten or even weaken as $T_{\rm eff}$ decreases. We establish an empirical log$R^{\prime }_{\rm H\alpha }$-$T_{\rm eff}$-age relation that enables the estimation of age. Compared to gyrochronology in open clusters, this relation can persist to 6 Gyr. Meanwhile, the chromospheric activity of K-type stars experiencing stalled spin-down increases with increasing $T_{\rm eff}$, and the rate of increase in activity increases with age. This implies a connection between the stalled spin-down of K-type stars and their increasing chromospheric activity. Moreover, the activity-rotation relations exhibit four regions: supersaturation, weak decay, rapid decay, and flat, which correspond to distinct rotation sequences in the $T_{\rm eff}$-$P_{\rm rot}$ diagram. These results provide new observational constraints on the evolution of angular momentum in stars of different spectral types.

Abstract Copyright: © The Author(s) 2025. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): stars: activity - stars: chromospheres - stars: rotation - open clusters and associations: general

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