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New Mass-Loss Measurements from Astrospheric Lyα Absorption
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Measurements of stellar mass-loss rates are used to assess how wind strength varies with coronal activity and age for solar-like stars. Mass loss generally increases with activity, but we find evidence that winds suddenly weaken at a certain activity threshold. Very active stars are often observed to have polar starspots, and we speculate that the magnetic field geometry associated with these spots may be inhibiting the winds. Our inferred mass-loss/age relation represents an empirical estimate of the history of the solar wind. This result is important for planetary studies as well as solar/stellar astronomy, since solar wind erosion may have played an important role in the evolution of planetary atmospheres.
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“…to the UV, and EUV data from, e.g., IUE, HST, GALEX, EUVE and FUSE (e.g., Jordan et al. 1987; Ayres 1995, Pagano et al. 2004, Ribas et al. 2005, Wood et al. 2005), X-ray data from, e.g., Einstein, Rosat, ASCA, Beppo-SAX, Chandra, and XMM (e.g., Favata & Micela 2003 and reference therein,…”
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“Indeed Wood et al. (2005) have observed large winds on young solar-like stars.”
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Probing Interstellar Dust with Space‐based Coronagraphs
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“The results will complement the wind mass loss rates estimated using the Ly absorption by the gas collected near stellar wind bow shocks (Wood et al. 2005).”
Numerical simulations of magnetized winds of solar-like stars
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“Direct measurements of tenuous coronal winds for other stars rather than the Sun have proved to be very difficult to do, although indirect detections of stellar coronal winds have been performed (Wood et al. 2005).”
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“Van Saders & Pinsonneault (2013) extended the application to more massive stars (1.1-1.5M⊙) by combining this prescription with the mass-loss rate of Wood et al. (2005).”
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Martian Dynamo Change at ∼4.1 Ga: Evidence from the Magnetic Measurements of the Iota Crater
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“Constraints on dynamo history are key to understanding the links between atmosphere evolution and the presence of a global magnetic field, which are critical sources of information on habitability ( B. E. Wood et al. 2005; N. Terada et al. 2009; B. M. Jakosky et al. 2015 ) .”
Penetrating Solar Wind Protons as a Source of Hydrogen to the Martian Atmosphere
Johann, M. L. S., Lillis, R. J., Jolitz, R. D., & Halekas, J. S. (2025) · Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics · doi:10.1029/2024ja033149
“…estimates of an earlier solar wind, when the Sun was less than 1 Gyr old, it suggests that proton densities were at least 10 times higher than those observed today (Johnstone et al., 2015; Wood et al., 2005), and could have been up to 100 times greater (Johnstone et al., 2015; Suzuki, 2013).”
WASP-12, shrouded in mystery or just cold gas?
Daley-Yates, S., Beckmann, R. S., McCallum, L., Jardine, M., & Cameron, A. C. (2025) · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · doi:10.1093/mnras/staf2201
Wood, B. E., Müller, H., Hartshorn, D., Redfield, S., & Metcalfe, Τ. S. (2026) · The Astrophysical Journal · doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ae315b
“…due to a slight increase in this very weak astrospheric absorption? is H I This doubtful, as such an increase should also result in a slight blueshift of the H I absorption, since the blue side of the absorption is where the astrospheric absorption would reside ( B. E. Wood et al. 2005b, 2021 ) .”
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Antisolar Differential Rotation May Have Revived Magnetic Braking in the Subgiant 31 Aquilae
Metcalfe, Τ. S., van Saders, J. L., Ayres, T. R., Buzasi, D. L., Drake, J. J., Egeland, R., García, R. A., Kochukhov, O., Saar, S. H., Stassun, K. G., et al. (2026) · The Astronomical Journal · doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ae5484
“The uncertainty accounts for the errors on L X , R , and the power-law exponent combined in quadrature with a factor of 2 systematic uncertainty on the empirical relation ( B. E. Wood et al. 2005 ) .”
The Role of Planetary Rotation in Polar Cusp Localization
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“…( ∼ 19 hr at 2.4 Gya), potentially shorter earlier (Green et al., 2017; Hansen, 1982; Mitchell & Kirscher, 2023; Webb, 1982), while the young Sun likely had a stronger solar wind despite lower luminosity (Feulner, 2012; Goldblatt & Zahnle, 2011; Sagan & Mullen, 1972; Wood et al., 2002, 2005).”
Influentialde Castro, A. I. G., France, K. C., & Canet, A. (2026) · Space Science Reviews · doi:10.1007/s11214-026-01304-8
“At present, astrospheric measurements have been obtained for nearly 30 stars, including G-K stars (Wood et al., 2005), and cooler M dwarfs (Wood et al. 2021, see Fig.”
Formation, evolution, and habitability of terrestrial planets: A review of research progress
Wang, Y., Liu, J., Liu, L., Qin, L., Li, Y., Su, Z., Chai, L., Fang, X., Xu, J., Yang, B., et al. (2026) · Science China Earth Sciences · doi:10.1007/s11430-025-1921-0
Planet-induced Stellar Flare Candidates from the TESS Mission
Whitsett, N., & Daylan, T. (2026) · The Astrophysical Journal · doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ae6446
“In another paper by B. E. Wood et al. (2005), they derive an empirical relationship between mass-loss rates of main-sequence stars and stellar age: In a similar fashion to the other estimated stellar parameters, we use the solar value of 3 × 10 − 14 M ⊙ / yr to estimate other stellar mass loss…”
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“The speeds are substantially higher than the wind speeds commonly assumed in astrospheric Ly α absorption analyses ( typically ∼ 400 km s − 1 ; B. E. Wood et al. 2002, 2005, 2014, 2021 ) .”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Wood, B. E., Müller, H.-R., Zank, G. P., Linsky, J. L., & Redfield, S.
- Affiliations
- Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (US)
- University of California, Riverside (US)
- McDonald Observatory (US)
- Venue
- The Astrophysical Journal
- Publisher
- American Astronomical Society
- Published
- 2005-07-11
- Volume
- 628
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- L143-L146
- ISSN
- 0004-637X (ISSN-L)
- 1538-4357
- OpenAlex
- W1867591249
- Cited by
- 467
- References
- 19
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- FWCI
- 15.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- The Astrophysical Journal (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Instrumentation › Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
- Keywords
- stellar mass loss, Lyman-alpha absorption, stellar winds, coronal activity, solar-type stars
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