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Slingshot prominences : nature’s wind gauges

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Date
21/01/2019
Author
Jardine, Moira
Collier Cameron, Andrew
Keywords
Stars: coronae
Stars: late-type
Stars: magnetic field
Stars: mass-loss
Stars: rotation
Stars: winds, outflows
QB Astronomy
QC Physics
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Abstract
Mass-loss rates for the tenuous, hot winds of cool stars are extremely difficult to measure, yet they are a crucial ingredient in the stars’ rotational evolution. We present a new method for measuring these mass-loss rates in young, rapidly rotating stars. These stars are known to support systems of ‘slingshot prominences’ fed by hot wind material flowing up from the stellar surface into the summits of closed magnetic loop structures. The material gathers and cools near the co-rotation radius until its density becomes large enough that it is visible as a transient absorption feature in the hydrogen Balmer lines and strong resonance lines such as Ca ii H & K. Here we present the key insight that the sonic point usually lies well below the condensation region. The flow at the wind base is therefore unaffected by the presence of an overlying prominence, so we can use the observed masses and recurrence times of the condensations to estimate the mass flux in the wind. These measurements extend the relationship between mass-loss rate per unit surface area and X-ray flux to span 5 orders of magnitude. They demonstrate no evidence of the suspected weakening of stellar mass-loss rates at high X-ray flux levels.
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Jardine , M & Collier Cameron , A 2019 , ' Slingshot prominences : nature’s wind gauges ' , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , vol. 482 , no. 3 , pp. 2853-2860 . https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2872
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2872
ISSN
0035-8711
Type
Journal article
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© 2018, the Author(s). 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/sty2872
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We acknowledge funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council consolidated grant ST/R000824/1
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/16527

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