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Optical flare activity in the low-mass eclipsing binary GJ~3236

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2016-09-07 v1

Abstract

We present our observations of the low-mass eclipsing binary GJ~3236. We have analyzed a phased RCR_C light-curve and confirmed previously determined fundamental parameters of the components. We detected evolution of the spot(s) and found that there exists a large spot near a polar region of the primary component and another spot either on the primary or the secondary component. We also observed 7 flare events and determined a flare rate of about 0.1 flares per hour. We observed two high energy, long-term flares with a complex light curve and possibly four weak short-term flaring events. A majority of the flares was detected in the RCR_C filter, which indicate their high energy.

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@article{arxiv.1608.01114,
  title  = {Optical flare activity in the low-mass eclipsing binary GJ~3236},
  author = {S. Parimucha and P. Dubovsky and M. Vanko and M. Cokina},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.01114},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

7 pages, 6 figures, accepted to ApSS

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