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Flaring Stars in a Non-targeted mm-wave Survey with SPT-3G

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2025-07-10 v2 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

We present a flare star catalog from four years of non-targeted millimeter-wave survey data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT). The data were taken with the SPT-3G camera and cover a 1500-square-degree region of the sky from 20h40m0s20^{h}40^{m}0^{s} to 3h20m0s3^{h}20^{m}0^{s} in right ascension and 42-42^{\circ} to 70-70^{\circ} in declination. This region was observed on a nearly daily cadence from 2019-2022 and chosen to avoid the plane of the galaxy. A short-duration transient search of this survey yields 111 flaring events from 66 stars, increasing the number of both flaring events and detected flare stars by an order of magnitude from the previous SPT-3G data release. We provide cross-matching to Gaia DR3, as well as matches to X-ray point sources found in the second ROSAT all-sky survey. We have detected flaring stars across the main sequence, from early-type A stars to M dwarfs, as well as a large population of evolved stars. These stars are mostly nearby, spanning 10 to 1000 parsecs in distance. Most of the flare spectral indices are constant or gently rising as a function of frequency at 95/150/220 GHz. The timescale of these events can range from minutes to hours, and the peak νLν\nu L_{\nu} luminosities range from 102710^{27} to 103110^{31} erg s1^{-1} in the SPT-3G frequency bands.

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@article{arxiv.2401.13525,
  title  = {Flaring Stars in a Non-targeted mm-wave Survey with SPT-3G},
  author = {C. Tandoi and S. Guns and A. Foster and P. A. R. Ade and A. J. Anderson and B. Ansarinejad and M. Archipley and L. Balkenhol and K. Benabed and A. N. Bender and B. A. Benson and F. Bianchini and L. E. Bleem and F. R. Bouchet and L. Bryant and E. Camphuis and J. E. Carlstrom and T. W. Cecil and C. L. Chang and P. Chaubal and P. M. Chichura and T. -L. Chou and A. Coerver and T. M. Crawford and A. Cukierman and C. Daley and T. de Haan and K. R. Dibert and M. A. Dobbs and A. Doussot and D. Dutcher and W. Everett and C. Feng and K. R. Ferguson and K. Fichman and S. Galli and A. E. Gambrel and R. W. Gardner and F. Ge and N. Goeckner-Wald and R. Gualtieri and F. Guidi and N. W. Halverson and E. Hivon and G. P. Holder and W. L. Holzapfel and J. C. Hood and N. Huang and F. Kéruzoré and L. Knox and M. Korman and K. Kornoelje and C. -L. Kuo and A. T. Lee and K. Levy and A. E. Lowitz and C. Lu and A. Maniyar and F. Menanteau and M. Millea and J. Montgomery and Y. Moon and Y. Nakato and T. Natoli and G. I. Noble and V. Novosad and Y. Omori and S. Padin and Z. Pan and P. Paschos and K. A. Phadke and K. Prabhu and Z. Qu and W. Quan and M. Rahimi and A. Rahlin and C. L. Reichardt and C. Reuter and M. Rouble and J. E. Ruhl and E. Schiappucci and G. Smecher and J. A. Sobrin and A. A. Stark and J. Stephen and A. Suzuki and K. L. Thompson and B. Thorne and C. Trendafilova and C. Tucker and C. Umilta and J. D. Vieira and Y. Wan and G. Wang and N. Whitehorn and W. L. K. Wu and V. Yefremenko and M. R. Young and J. A. Zebrowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.13525},
  year   = {2025}
}