XMM-Newton Large Program: magnetism of old suns
I’m very excited these days because the first observation from my recently awarded XMM-Newton large observing program keeps getting scheduled and then re-scheduled by the XMM team. If all goes well, the first data will be collected before the end of June. The observing program is about the magnetism of old sun-like stars; specifically, my co-investigators and I want to figure out if there is still a magnetic braking mechanism operating in old stars that are rotating anomalously quickly. The…