Powerful winds from low‐mass stars: V374 Peg
dc.contributor.author | Vidotto, A. A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Jardine, M. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Opher, M. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Donati, J. F. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Gombosi, Tamas I. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-12-05T18:34:50Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-04-30T18:27:22Z | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 2011-03-21 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Vidotto, A. A.; Jardine, M.; Opher, M.; Donati, J. F.; Gombosi, T. I. (2011). "Powerful winds from low‐mass stars: V374 Peg." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 412(1). <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/88098> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0035-8711 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1365-2966 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/88098 | |
dc.description.abstract | The M dwarf V374 Peg (M4) is believed to lie near the theoretical mass threshold for fully convective interiors. Its rapid rotation ( P = 0.44 d) along with its intense magnetic field point towards magnetocentrifugal acceleration of a coronal wind. In this work, we investigate the structure of the coronal wind of V374 Peg by means of three‐dimensional magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) numerical simulations. For the first time, an observationally derived surface magnetic field map is implemented in MHD models of stellar winds for a low‐mass star. By self‐consistently taking into consideration the interaction of the outflowing wind with the magnetic field and vice versa, we show that the wind of V374 Peg deviates greatly from a low‐velocity, low‐mass‐loss rate solar‐type wind. We have found general scaling relations for the terminal velocities, mass‐loss rates and spin‐down times of highly magnetized M dwarfs. In particular, for V374 Peg, our models show that terminal velocities across a range of stellar latitudes reach u ∞ ≃ (1500–2300) n −1/2 12 km s −1 , where n 12 is the coronal wind base density in units of 10 12 cm −3 , while the mass‐loss rates are about . We also evaluate the angular momentum loss of V374 Peg, which presents a rotational braking time‐scale τ≃ 28 n −1/2 12 Myr . Compared to observationally derived values from period distributions of stars in open clusters, this suggests that V374 Peg may have low coronal base densities (≲10 11 cm −3 ) . We show that the wind ram pressure of V374 Peg is about 5 orders of magnitude larger than for the solar wind. Nevertheless, a small planetary magnetic field intensity (∼0.1 G) is able to shield a planet orbiting at 1 au against the erosive effects of the stellar wind. However, planets orbiting inside the habitable zone of V374 Peg, where the wind ram pressure is higher, might be facing a more significant atmospheric erosion. In that case, higher planetary magnetic fields of, at least, about half the magnetic field intensity of Jupiter are required to protect the planet's atmosphere. | en_US |
dc.publisher | Blackwell Publishing Ltd | en_US |
dc.publisher | Wiley Periodicals, Inc. | en_US |
dc.subject.other | MHD | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Methods: Numerical | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Stars: Individual: V374 Peg | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Stars: Low‐Mass | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Stars: Magnetic Field | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Stars: Winds, Outflows | en_US |
dc.title | Powerful winds from low‐mass stars: V374 Peg | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Astronomy | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | University of Michigan, 1517 Space Research Building, Ann Arbor, MI 48109‐2143, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews KY16 9SS | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030‐4444, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | LATT‐CNRS/Université de Toulouse, 14 Av. E. Belin, Toulouse F‐31400, France | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/88098/1/j.1365-2966.2010.17908.x.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17908.x | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | en_US |
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