Features of the development of activity cycles in the solar-type stars and fast-rotating cool dwarfs have been considered for 65 stars observed in some decades. Cycles with duration of 7–18… Click to show full abstract
Features of the development of activity cycles in the solar-type stars and fast-rotating cool dwarfs have been considered for 65 stars observed in some decades. Cycles with duration of 7–18 years compared to the solar cycle were found for about 50% of the studied stars. In cooler dwarfs with rotation periods of less than 5 days, cyclic changes in brightness occur on longer scales, up to 80 years. Activity of the highest level is produced on K dwarfs; their main cycles are long and have the highest amplitudes. Both old and young solar-type stars show a similar tendency in increasing the cycle length with a slower rotation. No evidence for a relation between the rotation period and duration of cycles was found for cool dwarfs with Prot < 5 days.
               
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