Energy balance of stellar coronae. III - Effect of stellar mass and radius
Abstract
A homologous transformation is derived which permits the application of the numerical coronal models of Hammer from a star with solar mass and radius to other stars. This scaling requires a few approximations concerning the lower boundary conditions and the temperature dependence of the conductivity and emissivity. These approximations are discussed and found to be surprisingly mild. Therefore, the scaling of the coronal models to other stars is rather accurate; it is found to be particularly accurate for main-sequence stars. The transformation is used to derive an equation that gives the maximum temperature of open coronal regions as a function of stellar mass and radius, the coronal heating flux, and the characteristic damping length over which the corona is heated.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- May 1984
- DOI:
- 10.1086/162050
- Bibcode:
- 1984ApJ...280..780H
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics;
- Main Sequence Stars;
- Radii;
- Stellar Coronas;
- Stellar Mass;
- Approximation;
- Scaling Laws;
- Stellar Mass Ejection;
- Stellar Models;
- Transformations (Mathematics);
- Astrophysics