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Travis Metcalfe (SSI) Travis Metcalfe (SSI) with Ricky Egeland (HAO) and Jennifer van Saders (Carnegie) with Ricky Egeland (HAO) and Jennifer van Saders (Carnegie) Stellar Evidence of a Solar Dynamo in Transition

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Travis Metcalfe (SSI)Travis Metcalfe (SSI)

with Ricky Egeland (HAO) and Jennifer van Saders (Carnegie)with Ricky Egeland (HAO) and Jennifer van Saders (Carnegie)

Stellar Evidence of aSolar Dynamo in Transition

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Skumanich relation

Skumanich (1972)

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Rotational evolution

Bouvier (2008)

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M67

NGC6819

NGC6811

M44, M37

Gyrochronology

slide from Jen van Sadersvan Saders et al. (2016, Nature); Meibom et al. (2011, 2015); Barnes et al. (2016)

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slide from Jen van Saders

ZAMS Teff ~6200-5100 K

Gyrochronology

van Saders et al. (2016, Nature); Creevey et al. (2016, submitted)

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ZAMS Teff ~6200-5100 K

Gyrochronology

slide from Jen van Sadersvan Saders et al. (2016, Nature); Creevey et al. (2016, submitted)

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ZAMS Teff ~6200-5900 K

Gyrochronology

slide from Jen van Sadersvan Saders et al. (2016, Nature); Creevey et al. (2016, submitted)

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ZAMS Teff ~5900-5600 K

Gyrochronology

slide from Jen van Sadersvan Saders et al. (2016, Nature); Creevey et al. (2016, submitted)

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ZAMS Teff ~5400-5100 K

Gyrochronology

slide from Jen van Sadersvan Saders et al. (2016, Nature); Creevey et al. (2016, submitted)

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ZAMS Teff ~5900-5600 K

Gyrochronology revised

slide from Jen van Sadersvan Saders et al. (2016, Nature); Creevey et al. (2016, submitted)

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ZAMS Teff ~5900-5600 K

Gyrochronology revised

slide from Jen van Sadersvan Saders et al. (2016, Nature); Creevey et al. (2016, submitted)

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ZAMS Teff ~6200-5900 K

Gyrochronology revised

slide from Jen van Sadersvan Saders et al. (2016, Nature); Creevey et al. (2016, submitted)

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ZAMS Teff ~5900-5600 K

Gyrochronology revised

slide from Jen van Sadersvan Saders et al. (2016, Nature); Creevey et al. (2016, submitted)

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ZAMS Teff ~5400-5100 K

Gyrochronology revised

slide from Jen van Sadersvan Saders et al. (2016, Nature); Creevey et al. (2016, submitted)

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Garcia et al. (2014)

Stellar rotation with Kepler

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Metcalfe et al. (2012)

max

Asteroseismology with Kepler

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Rotation-activity relation

Metcalfe et al. (2016)

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Rotation-activity relation

Metcalfe et al. (2016)

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Differential rotation

fast equator

fast poles

Gastine et al. (2014)

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Vaughan-Preston gap

Vaughan & Preston (1980); Wright (2004)

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Rapid magnetic evolution

Pace et al. (2009)

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Rapid magnetic evolution

1.1 Gyr

1.7 Gyr

Metcalfe et al. (2016)

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Spots and faculae

spot dominated

faculae dominated

Lockwood et al. (2007)

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Breaking magnetic braking

Metcalfe et al. (2016)

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Breaking magnetic braking

Metcalfe et al. (2016)

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Breaking magnetic braking

Metcalfe et al. (2016)

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Solar analogs

18 Sco

HD 76151

HD 30495

HD 20630

16 Cyg

Metcalfe et al. (2016)

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Spindown and magnetic topology

Reville et al. (2015); see also Garraffo et al. (2015)

dipole quadrupole octupole

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Petit et al. (2008)

Zeeman Doppler imaging

18 Sco

18 Sco

HD 76151

HD 76151

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Zeeman Doppler imaging

• Young solar analog is dominated by a dipole (80% of poloidal field)

• Dipole (35%) is already disappearing in 18 Sco, with 55% in quadrupole

• Old solar analog has no Zeeman signatures, weak average line-of-sight field

Petit et al. (2008, + priv. comm.)

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Stellar activity cycles

Metcalfe et al. (2016)

HD 30495

HD 76151

HD 2063018 Sco

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TESS: all-sky asteroseismology

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Summary

• A change in differential rotation at Ro ~ 1 pushes stars across the V-P gap, rapidly decreases spot area, then disrupts magnetic braking at Ro ~ 2

• The Sun is in a transitional evolutionary phase, and its 11-year activity cycle may represent a special case of stellar dynamo theory

• Future ZDI measurements, more constraints on differential rotation, and asteroseismology of the Mount Wilson sample will help test this scenario

Details: ApJ Letters, 826, L2 (arXiv:1606.01926)

Nature, 529, 181 (arXiv:1601.02631)