Constraining Stellar Winds of Young Sun-like Stars

Abstract

As part of the project Pathways to Habitability (http://path.univie.ac.at/), we study the properties of the stellar winds of low-mass and Sun-like stars, and their influences on the atmospheres of potentially habitable planets. For this purpose, we combine mapping of stellar magnetic fields with magnetohydrodynamic wind models.Comment: 2 pages, 1 figure, IAUS 30