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Month: July 2017

New paper: Magnetic activity of old cool stars ?>

New paper: Magnetic activity of old cool stars

Happy to report that my PhD student Rachel Booth has successfully published her first paper! It’s a very interesting analysis of the magnetic activity of old cool stars, with a surprising find about the decline of activity at old stellar ages. Our paper has also been featured on the Astrobites blog: https://astrobites.org/2017/07/03/adventures-in-watchmaking-for-cool-stars/. Here’s the abstract of the paper: Stars with convective envelopes display magnetic activity, which decreases over time due to the magnetic braking of the star. This age-dependence of…

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