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Slingshot prominence evolution for a solar-like star

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Date
01/05/2019
Author
Villarreal D'Angelo, Carolina
Jardine, Moira
Johnstone, Colin P.
See, Victor
Funder
Science & Technology Facilities Council
Science & Technology Facilities Council
Grant ID
ST/R00824/1
ST/M001296/1
Keywords
Stars: coronae
Stars: low-mass
Stars: magnetic field
Stars: evolution
QB Astronomy
QC Physics
T-NDAS
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Abstract
Although the present-day Sun rotates too slowly to exhibit centrifugally supported ‘slingshot prominences’, at some time during its past it may have formed these clouds of cool gas and ejected them into the interplanetary medium. We determine the time period for this behaviour using a rotation evolution code to derive the properties of the formation and ejection of slingshot prominences during the lifetime of a star similar to our Sun. The mass, mass-loss rate, and rate of ejection of these prominences are calculated using the analytical expression derived in our previous work. We find that for stars with an initial rotation rate larger than 4.6Ω⊙⁠, about half of all solar mass stars, slingshot prominences will be present even after the star reaches the main-sequence phase. In a fast rotator, this means that prominences can form until the star reaches ∼800 Myr old. Our results also indicate that the mass and lifetime of this type of prominence have maximum values when the star reaches the zero-age main sequence at an age of ∼40 Myr for a solar mass star.
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Villarreal D'Angelo , C , Jardine , M , Johnstone , C P & See , V 2019 , ' Slingshot prominence evolution for a solar-like star ' , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , vol. 485 , no. 1 , pp. 1448-1453 . https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz477
Publication
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz477
ISSN
0035-8711
Type
Journal article
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© 2019 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/stz477
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Funding: UK STFC grant (ST/M001296/1) (CVD, MJ).
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URL
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019MNRAS.485.1448V
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/17372

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