The empirical upper limit for mass loss of cool main sequence stars.pdf

The empirical upper limit for mass loss of cool main sequence stars.pdf

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The empirical upper limit for mass loss of cool main sequence stars

a r X i v : 0 8 0 2 .3 7 7 8 v 1 [ a s t r o - p h ] 2 6 F e b 2 0 0 8 Astronomy Astrophysics manuscript no. stepien c? ESO 2008 February 27, 2008 The empirical upper limit for mass loss of cool main sequence stars Anna Lednicka and K. Ste?pien? Warsaw University Observatory, Al. Ujazdowskie 4, 00-478 Warszawa, Poland email: lednicka@astrouw.edu.pl, kst@astrouw.edu.pl Received ...;accepted ... ABSTRACT Context. The knowledge of mass loss rates due to thermal winds in cool dwarfs is of crucial importance for modeling evolution of physical parameters of main sequence single and binary stars. Very few, sometimes contradictory, measurements of such mass loss rates exist up to now. Aims. We present a new, independent method of measuring an amount of mass lost by a star during its past life. Methods. It is based on the comparison of the present mass distribution of solar type stars in an open cluster with the calculated distribution under an assumption that stars with masses lower than Mlim have lost an amount of mass equal to ?M. The actual value of ?M or its upper limit is found from the best fit. Results. Analysis of four clusters: Pleiades, NGC 6996, Hyades and Praesepe gave upper limits for ?M in three of them and the inconclusive result for Pleiades. The most restrictive limit was obtained for Praesepe indicating that the average mass loss rate of cool dwarfs in this cluster was lower than 6× 10?11 M⊙/yr. With more accurate mass determinations of the solar type members of selected open clusters, including those of spectral type K, the method will provide more stringent limits for mass loss of cool dwarfs. Key words. stars: activity – stars: late-type – stars: mass loss – stars: winds, outflows 1. Introduction Chromospheric-coronal activity is ubiquitous in cool stars pos- sessing subphotospheric convection zones. Hot coronas result in existence of thermal winds carrying away stellar mass and an- gular momentum. The precise knowledge of the mass loss rate (M

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