Table · dataset · 2026
eROSITA detected cool stars TESS derived periods
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The rotation-activity connection is the standard paradigm for interpreting chromospheric and coronal activity in late-type stars, namely, stars with outer convection zones.
Description
This paradigm states that activity increases with decreasing rotation period until a saturation limit is reached. By scaling rotation periods with the convective turnover time via the Rossby number, Ro, saturation is expected to occur at a universal value across all spectral types.
In our paper, we systematically investigate the relationship between rotation and activity as measured though X-ray emission for a large sample of late-type stars to test the universal applicability of this paradigm. To this end, we utilized TESS short-cadence space photometry to determine the rotation periods for late-type stars identified in the eROSITA all-sky survey. This combined dataset provides rotation and X-ray measurements for 14004 stars, representing a sample size increase of more than an order of magnitude compared to previous studies.
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Our results show that F-type stars do not reach the "classical" saturation limit of LX/Lbol~10^-3^, instead exhibiting significantly lower LX/Lbol values. We find that the convective turnover times derived from this sample closely agree with theoretical computations, supporting the idea that Rossby number-activity relations hold for all late-type main sequence stars. The lower level of activity in earlier spectral types (e.g., F-type and late A-type stars) is a physical consequence of their short convective turnover times, which prevent them from rotating rapidly enough to ever reach the saturation regime.
We demonstrate that a simple model incorporating our derived turnover times versus color can successfully reproduce he observed characteristics of the eROSITA X-ray activity distribution, as measured by the LX /Lbol ratio and Gaia BP-RP color.
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- Reference page cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/709/A180 ↗
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Documentation and papers
- ADS 2026A&A...709A.180S ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2026A%26A...709A.180S ↗
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Catalogue records · 2
- VOResource record dc.g-vo.org/oai.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=ivo_vor&identifier=ivo%3… ↗
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- Registry record (GAVO) dc.g-vo.org/I/cds.vizier/j/a%2Ba/709/a180 ↗
catalogue entry · from IVOA Registry
Topics
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics
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- Astronomical sciences 71%
Provenance · 1 source records, 10 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
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| IVOA Registry (Virtual Observatory) | ivo://cds.vizier/j/a+a/709/a180 | 12 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:5101 | enrichment · IVOA Registry | taxonomy-embedding@1.1.0 | title+keywords+description (71%) |
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