Bibcode
DOI
García-Alvarez, David; Drake, Jeremy J.; Kashyap, V. L.; Lin, L.; Ball, B.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 679, Issue 2, pp. 1509-1521.
Advertised on:
6
2008
Journal
Citations
21
Refereed citations
19
Description
AB Dor, Speedy Mic, and Rst 137B are in their early post-T Tauri
evolutionary phase (<100 Myr), at the age of fastest rotation in the
life of late-type stars. They straddle the coronal
saturation-supersaturation boundary first defined by young stars in open
clusters. High-resolution Chandra X-ray spectra have been analyzed to
study their coronal properties as a function of coronal activity
parameters Rossby number, LX/Lbol, and a coronal
temperature index. Differences between stars suggest that as
supersaturation is reached the DEM slope below the temperature of peak
DEM becomes shallower, while the DEM drop-off above this temperature
becomes more pronounced. A larger sample comprising our three targets
and 22 active stars studied in the recent literature reveals a general
increase of plasma at T>~107 K toward the
saturated-supersaturated boundary but a decline beyond this among
supersaturated stars. The coronal Fe abundances of the stellar sample
are inversely correlated with LX/Lbol, declining
slowly with rising LX/Lbol, but with a much more
sharp decline at
LX/Lbol>~3×10-4. For dwarfs
the Fe abundance is also well correlated with Rossby number. The coronal
O/Fe ratios for dwarfs show a clear increase with decreasing Rossby
number, apparently reaching saturation at [O/Fe]=0.5 at the coronal
supersaturation boundary.