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dc.contributor.authorKavanagh, Robert D
dc.contributor.authorVidotto, Aline A
dc.contributor.authorKlein, Baptiste
dc.contributor.authorJardine, Moira M
dc.contributor.authorDonati, Jean-François
dc.contributor.authorFionnagáin, Dúalta Ó
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-16T16:30:08Z
dc.date.available2021-04-16T16:30:08Z
dc.date.issued2021-04-05
dc.identifier.citationKavanagh , R D , Vidotto , A A , Klein , B , Jardine , M M , Donati , J-F & Fionnagáin , D Ó 2021 , ' Planet-induced radio emission from the coronae of M dwarfs : the case of Prox Cen and AU Mic ' , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , vol. Advance Article . https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab929en
dc.identifier.issn0035-8711
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 273830723
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 886fcb51-a0ee-44ee-bd20-5036a5a677b6
dc.identifier.otherJisc: 085f7819539146f2a17b5b2f8d025029
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000656137100108
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85107893150
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/23042
dc.descriptionRDK acknowledges funding received from the Irish Research Council (IRC) through the Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Programme. AAV acknowledges funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 817540, ASTROFLOW). BK acknowledges funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 865624, GPRV). MMJ acknowledges support from STFC consolidated grant number ST/R000824/1. JFD and BK acknowledge the ERC for grant agreement No 740651, NewWorlds. DOF acknowledges funding from the IRC Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme. We acknowledge the Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC) for providing the computational facilities used to perform the simulations published in this work.en
dc.description.abstractThere have recently been detections of radio emission from low-mass stars, some of which are indicative of star-planet interactions. Motivated by these exciting new results, in this paper we present Alfvén wave-driven stellar wind models of the two active planet-hosting M dwarfs Prox Cen and AU Mic. Our models incorporate large-scale photospheric magnetic field maps reconstructed using the Zeeman-Doppler Imaging method. We obtain a mass-loss rate of 0.25 Ṁ⊙ for the wind of Prox Cen. For the young dwarf AU Mic, we explore two cases: a low and high mass-loss rate. Depending on the properties of the Alfvén waves which heat the corona in our wind models, we obtain mass-loss rates of 27 and 590 Ṁ⊙ for AU Mic. We use our stellar wind models to assess the generation of electron cyclotron maser instability emission in both systems, through a mechanism analogous to the sub-Alfvénic Jupiter-Io interaction. For Prox Cen we do not find any feasible scenario where the planet can induce radio emission in the star’s corona, as the planet orbits too far from the star in the super-Alfvénic regime. However, in the case that AU Mic has a stellar wind mass-loss rate of 27 Ṁ⊙⁠, we find that both planets b and c in the system can induce radio emission from ∼10 MHz – 3 GHz in the corona of the host star for the majority of their orbits, with peak flux densities of ∼10 mJy. Detection of such radio emission would allow us to place an upper limit on the mass-loss rate of the star.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Societyen
dc.rightsCopyright © 2021 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 publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the author created accepted manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab929.en
dc.subjectStars: individual: Proxima Centaurien
dc.subjectAU Microscopiien
dc.subjectStars: winds, outflowsen
dc.subjectStars: mass-lossen
dc.subjectStars: magnetic fielden
dc.subjectRadio continuum: planetary systemsen
dc.subjectQB Astronomyen
dc.subjectQC Physicsen
dc.subject3rd-DASen
dc.subject.lccQBen
dc.subject.lccQCen
dc.titlePlanet-induced radio emission from the coronae of M dwarfs : the case of Prox Cen and AU Micen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPostprinten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomyen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab929
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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