Pablo Mauas , Mr. - Ph.D.
Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio
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Session 2 - Poster

Chromospheric activity in K stars

P.J.D. Mauas and M. Vieytes, Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio, Buenos Aires, Argentina
       

We computed chromospheric models of six stars of spectral type K, in some cases in two different moments of activity. The stars were chosen with 0.82<B-V<0.90, including the widely studied star Epsilon Eridani. The stars in the sample have a wide variety of magnetic activity levels, which allows us to study the differences in structures induced by activity, and expand our previous work for G stars including the Sun as a star. The models were constructed to obtain the best possible match with the Ca II K and H$\beta$ observed profiles. We also computed the net radiative losses for each model to constrain physical processes to maintain the structure in the atmosphere predicted by the models. We find a strong correlation between these losses and ScaII, the index generally used as a proxy for activity, as we found for G stars.