1. Slingshot prominences: coronal structure, mass loss and spin down
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See, Victor, Matt, Sean, Finley, Adam, Folsom, Colin, Saikia, Sudeshna Boro, Donati, Jean-François, Fares, Rim, Hebrard, Élodie, Jeffers, Sandra, Marsden, Stephen, Mengel, Matthew, Morin, Julien, Petit, Pascal, Vidotto, Aline, Waite, Ian, Jardine, Moira, Cameron, A Collier, Donati, J-F, Hussain, G, University of St Andrews [Scotland], Département d'Astrophysique (ex SAP) (DAP), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut für Astrophysik [Göttingen], Georg-August-University [Göttingen], University of Southern Queensland (USQ), Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS), Centre d'Economie de l'Université Paris Nord (ancienne affiliation) (CEPN), Université Paris 13 (UP13)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Trinity College Dublin, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Science & Technology Facilities Council, University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews. St Andrews Centre for Exoplanet Science, Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Georg-August-University = Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), and Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)
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late-types [Stars] ,magnetic fields [Stars] ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Astrophysics ,coronae [Stars] ,solar-type [Stars] ,01 natural sciences ,Solar prominence ,stars: rotation ,0103 physical sciences ,QB Astronomy ,Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR) ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics ,QB ,Spin-½ ,stars: coronae ,Physics ,Slingshot ,[SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph] ,[SDU.ASTR.SR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Solar and Stellar Astrophysics [astro-ph.SR] ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,European research ,stars: late-type ,stars: magnetic field ,stars: solar-type ,DAS ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,rotation [Stars] ,Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics ,[SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics] ,Space and Planetary Science ,Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics - Abstract
The structure of a star's coronal magnetic field is a fundamental property that governs the high-energy emission from the hot coronal gas and the loss of mass and angular momentum in the stellar wind. It is, however, extremely difficult to measure. We report a new method to trace this structure in rapidly-rotating young convective stars, using the cool gas trapped on coronal field lines as markers. This gas forms "slingshot prominences" which appear as transient absorption features in H-$\alpha$. By using different methods of extrapolating this field from the surface measurements, we determine locations for prominence support and produce synthetic H-$\alpha$ stacked spectra. The absorption features produced with a potential field extrapolation match well this those observed, while those from a non-potential field do not. In systems where the rotation and magnetic axes are well aligned, up to $50\%$ of the prominence mass may transit the star and so produces a observable feature. This fraction may fall as low as $~2\%$ in very highly inclined systems. Ejected prominences carry away mass and angular momentum at rates that vary by two orders of magnitude, but which may approach those carried by the stellar wind., Comment: 14 pages, 10 figures, accepted by MNRAS
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- 2019
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