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Question

Previously I posted collections of my Find-the-stars puzzles here, here and here.

This post is different.
You are asked to create a puzzle.

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Find-the-stars rules:

A Find-the-stars puzzle is played on a square grid that is initially empty except some squares contain arrows.

The goal of the puzzle is to fill some empty squares with stars so that:

1. Every row contains exactly one star.
2. Every column contains exactly one star.
3. Stars are NOT placed in squares that contain an arrow.
4. If a square contains a SOLID arrow, THEN exactly one square in the direction of the arrow will contain a star.
5. If a square contains a DASHED arrow, THEN none of the squares in the direction of the arrow will contain a star.

Clarification: Despite the above rule about SOLID arrows, it is possible that a star is not pointed to by a SOLID arrow. It is also possible that a star is pointed to by more than one SOLID arrow.

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Sample 9x9 puzzle:

Sample solution:

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Main question:

What is the smallest number of arrow clues that must be provided so that a 9x9 Find-the-stars puzzle has a unique solution according to the rules given above.

Puzzle construction constraints:

1. Each square in the 9x9 grid is either empty or contains a single arrow.
2. Each arrow must be SOLID or DASHED.
3. The puzzle you create need not necessarily contain both SOLID and DASHED arrows.
4. There are 8 possible directions for the arrows: up, down, left, right, diagonally up and to the left, diagonally up and to the right, diagonally down and to the left, and lastly diagonally down and to the right. Note that each of these 8 directions appears at least once in the sample puzzle. You need not necessarily use all 8 directions in the puzzle you create.
5. Arrows on the edge of the puzzle CAN'T point outwards.
6. Arrows CAN'T point to other arrows.

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Partial answers are welcome (for example, using a square grid smaller than 9x9).

Answer 1

I can make a 9×9 puzzle

with six arrows:

Try it here!

How did we get here?

A two-arrow deficit is quite easy to achieve. Here are two small puzzles that achieve it:

With very, very few exceptions, an $N\times N$ puzzle with $A$ arrows can be trivially extended to an $N+1\times N+1$ puzzle with $A+1$ arrows by inserting a one-cell arrow somewhere, so I looked for some bigger puzzles with a larger deficit.
I found the following 6x6 grid with three arrows and two solutions:

This wasn't enough for a three-arrow deficit, but I did find a way to force three stars into three rows and three columns with three arrows, one of which is outside said rows and columns:

and combining these gives the full 9x9, by using the outside arrow to block one of the solutions.

Answer 2

Here is my best result, that I claim, without proof, to be optimal:

Answer 3

Here is my unique solution:

here is another solution:

used my own player to find this, totally trial-and-error so I am not sure this is optimal though.

Please feel free to find with 5 or less arrows by using the game creater below, all rules are implemented (hopefully :P)

create the puzzle here