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Breakthroughs in Cool Star Physics with the Line Emission Mapper X-ray Probe

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2023-10-27 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

We outline some of the highlights of the scientific case for the advancement of stellar high energy physics using the Line Emission Mapper X-ray Probe ({\it LEM}). The key to advancements with LEM lie in its large effective area -- up to 100 times that of the {\it Chandra} MEG -- and 1~eV spectral resolution. The large effective area opens up for the first time the ability to study time-dependent phenomena on their natural timescales at high resolution, such as flares and coronal mass ejections, and also opens the sky to much fainter targets than available to {\it Chandra} or {\it XMM-Newton}.

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@article{arxiv.2310.17563,
  title  = {Breakthroughs in Cool Star Physics with the Line Emission Mapper X-ray Probe},
  author = {Jeremy J. Drake and Julián Alvarado Gomez and Costanza Argiroffi and Ettore Flaccomio and Cecilia Garraffo and Nicolas Grosso and Nazma Islam and Margarita Karovska and Vinay L. Kashyap and Kristina Monsch and Jan-Uwe Ness and Salvatore Sciortino and Bradford Wargelin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.17563},
  year   = {2023}
}

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A Line Emission Mapper X-ray Probe White Paper