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The Geometrical Structure of Activity in the AR Lac System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

Gibor Basri
Affiliation:
Dept. of Astronomy, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
David Gibson
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM, USA
Fredrick Walter
Affiliation:
JILA, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA

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Although solar activity is seen to exhibit a very inhomogeneous and convoluted set of structures, and we have good reason to expect that stellar activity is also very structured, it is naturally quite difficult to resolve such structures on other stars. One of the best opportunities for doing so is afforded by an active eclipsing system of short period, in which both the eclipses and stellar rotation serve to cover and uncover features on reasonable time scales. AR Lac is the nearest and most suitable such system, it is an RSCVn system comprised of an active G dwarf and active K subgiant with a two day period. We report here on simultaneous X-ray and UV coverage of an eclipse in this system obtained with the Einstein and IUE observations. More details are given in reports in IAU Coll. No. 71 and IAU Symp. No. 102.

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Joint Commission Meetings
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Copyright © Reidel 1983