EXSPLOSYN Model

This page hosts the full-resolution companion animation for my PhD thesis, Characterization of Young Active Stars for Identifying the Youngest Exoplanets.

The animation below corresponds to Chapter 4.5, Figure 4.14.

Click the animation to open the raw GIF in a new tab.

Description

This animation shows a standard output from the EXSPLOSYN spot simulation code. The panel features a 3D projection of the star displaying the surface spot configurations alongside the corresponding synthetic spotted spectra in the upper-right panel. The bottom-right panels trace the resulting variations in radial velocity (RV) and the equivalent width ratio (EWR) of OH and Fe line.

Specifically, this model presents the Zeeman-Doppler Imaging (ZDI) informed surface reconstruction for the weak-line T Tauri star LkCa4.