High dispersion spectroscopy of solar-type superflare stars with Subaru/HDS

Abstract

We carried out spectroscopic observations with Subaru/HDS of 50 solar-type superflare stars found from Kepler data. More than half (34 stars) of the target stars show no evidence of the binary system, and we confirmed atmospheric parameters of these stars are roughly in the range of solar-type stars. We then conducted the detailed analyses for these 34 stars. First, the value of the "$v\sin i$" (projected rotational velocity) measured from spectroscopic results is consistent with the rotational velocity estimated from the brightness variation. Second, there is a correlation between the amplitude of the brightness variation and the intensity of Ca II IR triplet line. All the targets expected to have large starspots because of their large amplitude of the brightness variation show high chromospheric activities compared with the Sun. These results support that the brightness variation of superflare stars is explained by the rotation of a star with large starspots.

6 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of IAU Symposium No. 320 "Solar and Stellar Flares and Their Effects on Planets". The main results of this manuscript are based on Notsu et al. (2015a, PASJ, 67, 32) and (2015b, PASJ, 67, 33)

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