Abstract
Aims. We study the X-ray emission of low-mass main-sequence stars to derive a reliable general scaling law between coronal temperature and the level of X-ray activity.Methods. We collect ROSAT measurements of hardness ratios and X-ray luminosities for a large sample of stars to derive which stellar X-ray emission parameter is most closely correlated with coronal temperature. We calculate average coronal temperatures for a sample of 24 low-mass main-sequence stars with measured emission measure distributions (EMDs) collected from the literature. These EMDs are based on high-resolution X-ray spectra measured by XMM-Newton and Chandra . Results. We confirm that there is one universal scaling relation between coronal average temperature and surface X-ray flux, F X , that applies to all low-mass main-sequence stars. We find that coronal temperature is related to F X by T cor = 0.11 FX 0.26 , where T cor is in MK and F X is in erg s-1 cm-2 .
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