Hunting for anti-solar differentially rotating stars using the Rossby number -- An application to the Kepler field
arXiv:2208.12297 · doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202243890
Abstract
Anti-solar differential rotation profiles have been found for decades in numerical simulations of convective envelopes of solar-type stars. These profiles are characterized by a slow equator and fast poles (i.e., reversed with respect to the Sun) and have been found in simulations for high Rossby numbers (slow rotators). Rotation profiles like this have been reported observationally in evolved stars, but have never been unambiguously observed for cool solar-type stars on the main sequence. In this context, detecting this regime in main-sequence solar-type stars would improve our understanding of their magnetorotational evolution. The goal of this study is to identify the most promising cool main-sequence stellar candidates for anti-solar differential rotation in the \textit{Kepler} sample. First, we introduce a new theoretical formula to estimate fluid Rossby numbers, , of main-sequence solar-type stars, from observational quantities, and taking the influences of the internal structure and metallicity into account. We obtain a list of the most promising stars that are likely to show anti-solar differential rotation. We identify two samples: one at solar metallicity, including 14 targets, and another for other metallicities, including 8 targets. We find that the targets with the highest are likely to be early-G or late-F stars at about log~dex. We conclude that cool main-sequence stellar candidates for anti-solar differential rotation exist in the \textit{Kepler} sample. The most promising candidate is KIC~10907436, and two other particularly interesting candidates are the solar analog KIC~7189915 and the seismic target KIC~12117868. Future characterization of these 22 stars is expected to help us understand how dynamics can impact magnetic and rotational evolution of old solar-type stars at high Rossby number.
12 pages + Appendix ; 9 Figures ; 3 Tables ; Accepted for publication in A&A
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