Bibcode
Salabert, D.; García, R. A.; Beck, P. G.; Egeland, R.; Pallé, P. L.; Mathur, S.; Metcalfe, T. S.; do Nascimento, J.-D., Jr.; Ceillier, T.; Andersen, M. F.; Triviño Hage, A.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 596, id.A31, 12 pp.
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2016
Journal
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61
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Description
We identify a set of 18 solar analogs among the seismic sample of
solar-like stars observed by the Kepler satellite rotating between 10
and 40 days. This set is constructed using the asteroseismic stellar
properties derived using either the global oscillation properties or the
individual acoustic frequencies. We measure the magnetic activity
properties of these stars using observations collected by the
photometric Kepler satellite and by the ground-based, high-resolution
Hermes spectrograph mounted on the Mercator telescope. The photospheric
(Sph) and chromospheric (S index) magnetic activity levels of
these seismic solar analogs are estimated and compared in relation to
the solar activity. We show that the activity of the Sun is comparable
to the activity of the seismic solar analogs, within the
maximum-to-minimum temporal variations of the 11-yr solar activity cycle
23. In agreement with previous studies, the youngest stars and fastest
rotators in our sample are actually the most active. The activity of
stars older than the Sun seems to not evolve much with age. Furthermore,
the comparison of the photospheric, Sph, with the
well-established chromospheric, S index, indicates that the
Sph index can be used to provide a suitable magnetic activity
proxy which can be easily estimated for a large number of stars from
space photometric observations.
Based on observations collected by the NASA Kepler space telescope and
the Hermes spectrograph mounted on the 1.2 m Mercator telescope at the
Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de
Astrofísica de Canarias.