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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 862, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aacb7f
Keywords
magnetohydrodynamics (MHD); methods: numerical; stars: activity; stars: magnetic field; star: winds, outflows; Sun: coronal mass ejections (CMEs)
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- Chandra grants [AR4-15000X, GO5-16021X, TM6-17001B]
- NASA [NAS8-03060]
- NASA Living with a Star [NNX16AC11G]
- DFG Cluster of Excellence Origin and Structure of the universe
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We present results from a set of numerical simulations aimed at exploring the mechanism of coronal mass ejection (CME) suppression in active stars by an overlying large-scale magnetic field. We use a state-of-the-art 3D magnetohydrodynamic code that considers a self-consistent coupling between an Alfven wave-driven stellar wind solution, and a first-principles CME model based on the eruption of a flux rope anchored to a mixed-polarity region. By replicating the driving conditions used in simulations of strong solar CMEs, we show that a large-scale dipolar magnetic field of 75 G is able to fully confine eruptions within the stellar corona. Our simulations also consider CMEs exceeding the magnetic energy used in solar studies, which are able to escape the large-scale magnetic field confinement. The analysis includes a qualitative and quantitative description of the simulated CMEs and their dynamics, which reveals a drastic reduction of the radial speed caused by the overlying magnetic field. With the aid of recent observational studies, we place our numerical results in the context of solar and stellar flaring events. In this way, we find that this particular large-scale magnetic field configuration establishes a suppression threshold around similar to 3 x 10(32) erg in the CME kinetic energy. Extending the solar flare-CME relations to other stars, such CME kinetic energies could be typically achieved during erupting flaring events with total energies larger than 6 x 10(32) erg (GOES class similar to X70).
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