Magnetic activity and radial velocity filtering of young Suns : the weak-line T-Tauri stars Par 1379 and Par 2244
Abstract
We report the results of our spectropolarimetric monitoring of the weak-line T-Tauri stars (wTTSs) Par 1379 and Par 2244, within the MaTYSSE (Magnetic Topologies of Young Stars and the Survival of close-in giant Exoplanets) programme. Both stars are of a similar mass (1.6 and 1.8 M⊙) and age (1.8 and 1.1 Myr), with Par 1379 hosting an evolved low-mass dusty circumstellar disc, and with Par 2244 showing evidence of a young debris disc. We detect profile distortions and Zeeman signatures in the unpolarized and circularly polarized lines for each star, and have modelled their rotational modulation using tomographic imaging, yielding brightness and magnetic maps. We find that Par 1379 harbours a weak (250 G), mostly poloidal field tilted 65° from the rotation axis. In contrast, Par 2244 hosts a stronger field (860 G) split 3:2 between poloidal and toroidal components, with most of the energy in higher order modes, and with the poloidal component tilted 45° from the rotation axis. Compared to the lower mass wTTSs, V819 Tau and V830 Tau, Par 2244 has a similar field strength, but is much more complex, whereas the much less complex field of Par 1379 is also much weaker than any other mapped wTTS. We find moderate surface differential rotation of 1.4× and 1.8× smaller than Solar, for Par 1379 and Par 2244, respectively. Using our tomographic maps to predict the activity-related radial velocity (RV) jitter, and filter it from the RV curves, we find RV residuals with dispersions of 0.017 and 0.086 km s−1 for Par 1379 and Par 2244, respectively. We find no evidence for close-in giant planets around either star, with 3σ upper limits of 0.56 and 3.54 MJup (at an orbital distance of 0.1 au).
Citation
Hill , C A , Carmona , A , Donati , J-F , Hussain , G A J , Gregory , S G , Alencar , S H P , Bouvier , J & MaTYSSE Collaboration 2017 , ' Magnetic activity and radial velocity filtering of young Suns : the weak-line T-Tauri stars Par 1379 and Par 2244 ' , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , vol. 472 , no. 2 , pp. 1716-1735 . https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2042
Publication
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0035-8711Type
Journal article
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© 2017 The Authors, Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the final published version of the work, which was originally published at https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2042
Description
The authors thank the IDEX initiative at Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées (UFTMiP) for funding the STEPS collaboration programme between IRAP/OMP and ESO and for allocating a ‘Chaire d'Attractivité’ to GAJH, allowing her to regularly visit Toulouse to work on MaTYSSE data. SGG acknowledges support from the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) via an Ernest Rutherford Fellowship [ST/J003255/1]. SHPA acknowledges financial support from CNPq, CAPES and Fapemig. This work has made use of the VALD, operated at Uppsala University, the Institute of Astronomy RAS in Moscow, and the University of Vienna, and the SVO Filter Profile Service supported from the Spanish MINECO through grant AyA2014-55216Collections
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