Ignasi Ribas et al. 2005 ApJ 622 680 doi:10.1086/427977
Ignasi Ribas1, Edward F. Guinan2, Manuel Güdel3 and Marc Audard4
Show affiliationsWe report on the results of the Sun in Time multiwavelength program (X-rays to UV) of solar analogs with ages covering ~0.1-7 Gyr. The chief science goals are to study the solar magnetic dynamo and to determine the radiative and magnetic properties of the Sun during its evolution across the main sequence. The present paper focuses on the latter goal, which has the ultimate purpose of providing the spectral irradiance evolution of solar-type stars to be used in the study and modeling of planetary atmospheres. The results from the Sun in Time program suggest that the coronal X-ray-EUV emissions of the young main-sequence Sun were ~100-1000 times stronger than those of the present Sun. Similarly, the transition region and chromospheric FUV-UV emissions of the young Sun are expected to be 20-60 and 10-20 times stronger, respectively, than at present. When we consider the integrated high-energy emission from 1 to 1200 Å, the resulting relationship indicates that about 2.5 Gyr ago the solar high-energy flux was about 2.5 times the present value and about 3.5 Gyr ago was about 6 times the present value (when life supposedly arose on Earth). The strong radiation emissions inferred should have had major influences on the thermal structure, photochemistry, and photoionization of planetary atmospheres and have played an important role in the development of primitive life in the solar system. Some examples of the application of the Sun in Time results on exoplanets and on early solar system planets are discussed.
solar-terrestrial relations; stars: activity; stars: chromospheres; stars: coronae; stars: late-type; Sun: evolution
Issue 1 (2005 March 20)
Received 2004 October 7, accepted for publication 2004 December 9
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