The winds of young Solar-type stars in Coma Berenices and Hercules-Lyra

Abstract

We present wind models of ten young Solar-type stars in the Hercules-Lyra association and the Coma Berenices cluster aged around 0.26 Gyr and 0.58 Gyr respectively. Combined with five previously modelled stars in the Hyades cluster, aged 0.63 Gyr, we obtain a large atlas of fifteen observationally based wind models. We find varied geometries, multi-armed structures in the equatorial plane, and a greater spread in quantities such as the angular momentum loss. In our models we infer variation of a factor of ~6 in wind angular momentum loss $\dot{J}$ and a factor of ~2 in wind mass loss $\dot{M}$ based on magnetic field geometry differences when adjusting for the unsigned surface magnetic flux. We observe a large variation factor of ~4 in wind pressure for an Earth-like planet; we attribute this to variations in the 'magnetic inclination' of the magnetic dipole axis with respect to the stellar axis of rotation. Within our models, we observe a tight correlation between unsigned open magnetic flux and angular momentum loss. To account for possible underreporting of the observed magnetic field strength we investigate a second series of wind models where the magnetic field has been scaled by a factor of 5. This gives $\dot{M}\propto B^{0.4}$ and $\dot{J}\propto B^{1.0}$ as a result of pure magnetic scaling.

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