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A&A
Volume 682, February 2024
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Article Number | A86 | |
Number of page(s) | 21 | |
Section | Stellar atmospheres | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202345919 | |
Published online | 08 February 2024 |
Stellar activity and differential rotation of HD 111395
1
Hamburger Sternwarte, Universität Hamburg,
Gojenbergsweg 112,
21029
Hamburg,
Germany
e-mail: mmittag@hs.uni-hamburg.de
2
Departamento de Astronomia, Universidad de Guanajuato,
Callejón de Jalisco s/n,
36023
Guanajuato,
GTO,
Mexico
Received:
17
January
2023
Accepted:
31
October
2023
Aims. Stellar activity cycles and rotation periods are important parameters for characterising the stellar dynamo, which operates in late-type main-sequence stars. However, the number of stars with well-known cycle and rotation periods is rather low, so new detections are still important.
Methods. To find activity cycles and rotation periods, we utilised the TIGRE telescope to monitor stars for periodic variations in chromospheric activity indicators. We employed the widely used CaII H&K lines and the CaII infrared triplet lines as stellar activity indicators. To verify a periodic variation and to determine the corresponding period, we performed a frequency analysis via the generalised Lomb-Scargle method of the taken time series.
Results. We studied CaII data of the G5V star HD 111395 and derive an activity cycle period of 949 ± 5 d (≈2.6 yr). This cycle is coincident with coronal measurements from the X-ray telescope eROSITA on board SRG. Furthermore, the TIGRE CaII time series show a long-term trend that indicates an additional long-term cycle. Using the few available literature S-index data points, we estimate a probable cycle length of 12–15 yr for this potential long-term cycle. Finally, we determined rotation periods from each observation season. We computed a mean rotation period of 16.76 ± 0.36 d averaged over all observation seasons and chromospheric indicators. However, we also find a strong variation in the mean seasonal rotation periods, which follows the derived cycle period; therefore, we interpret this behaviour as a sign of surface differential rotation.
Key words: stars: activity / stars: chromospheres / stars: coronae / stars: late-type / stars: rotation / X-rays: stars
© The Authors 2024
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