The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. The He I infrared triplet lines in PHOENIX models of M 2-3 V stars

The He » I infrared (IR) line at a vacuum wavelength of 10 833 Å is a diagnostic for the investigation of atmospheres of stars and planets orbiting them. For the first time, we study the behavior of the He » I IR line in a set of chromospheric models for M-dwarf stars, whose much denser chromosphere...

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Autores: Hintz, D., Fuhrmeister, B., Czesla, S., Schmitt, H. M. M., Schweitzer, A., Nagel, E., Johnson, E. N., Caballero, J. A., Zechmeister, M., Jeffers, S. V., Reiners, A., Ribas, I., Amado, P. J., Quirrenbach, A., Anglada Escudé, G., Bauer, F. F., Béjar, V. J. S., Cortés Contreras, M., Dreizler, S., Galadí Enríquez, D., Guenther, E. W., Hauschildt, P. H., Kaminski, A., Kürster, M., Lafarga, M., López del Fresno, M., Montes, D., Morales, J. C.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.INTA Repositorio Digital del Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.inta.es:20.500.12666/140
Acceso en línea:https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/06/aa37596-20/aa37596-20.html
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12666/140
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Stars: activity
Stars: chromospheres
Stars: late-Type
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Sumario:The He » I infrared (IR) line at a vacuum wavelength of 10 833 Å is a diagnostic for the investigation of atmospheres of stars and planets orbiting them. For the first time, we study the behavior of the He » I IR line in a set of chromospheric models for M-dwarf stars, whose much denser chromospheres may favor collisions for the level population over photoionization and recombination, which are believed to be dominant in solar-type stars. For this purpose, we use published PHOENIX models for stars of spectral types M2 V and M3 V and also compute new series of models with different levels of activity following an ansatz developed for the case of the Sun. We perform a detailed analysis of the behavior of the He I IR line within these models. We evaluate the line in relation to other chromospheric lines and also the influence of the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation field. The analysis of the He » I IR line strengths as a function of the respective EUV radiation field strengths suggests that the mechanism of photoionization and recombination is necessary to form the line for inactive models, while collisions start to play a role in our most active models. Moreover, the published model set, which is optimized in the ranges of the Na » I D2, Hα, and the bluest Ca » II IR triplet line, gives an adequate prediction of the He » I IR line for most stars of the stellar sample. Because especially the most inactive stars with weak He » I IR lines are fit worst by our models, it seems that our assumption of a 100% filling factor of a single inactive component no longer holds for these stars. © ESO 2020.

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