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The white-light superflares from cool stars in GWAC triggers

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2024-08-13 v1

Abstract

M-type stars are the ones that flare most frequently, but how big their maximum flare energy can reach is still unknown. We present 163 flares from 162 individual M2 through L1-type stars that triggered the GWAC, with flare energies ranging from 1032.210^{32.2} to 1036.410^{36.4} erg . The flare amplitudes range from G=0.84\triangle G = 0.84 to 10\sim 10 mag. Flare energy increases with stellar surface temperature (TeffT_{\rm eff}) but both G\triangle G and equivalent duration log10(ED)\log_{10}(ED) seem to be independent of TeffT_{\rm eff}. Combining periods detected from light curves of TESS and K2, spectra from LAMOST, SDSS and the 2.16 m Telescope, and the Gaia DR3 data, we found that these GWAC flare stars are young. For the stars that have spectra, we found that these stars are in or very near to the saturation region, and log10(LHα/Lbol)\log_{10}(L_{\rm H\alpha}/L_{\rm bol}) is lower for M7-L1 stars than for M2-M6 stars. We also studied the relation between GWAC flare bolometric energy EbolE_{\rm bol} and stellar hemispherical area SS, and found that log10Ebol\log_{10}E_{\rm bol} (in erg) increases with increasing SS (in cm2^2), and the maximum flare energy log10Ebol,maxlog10S+14.25\log_{10}E_{\rm bol, max} \geqslant \log_{10}S + 14.25. For M7-L1 stars, there seem to be other factors limiting their maximum flare energies in addition to stellar hemispherical area.

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@article{arxiv.2407.08183,
  title  = {The white-light superflares from cool stars in GWAC triggers},
  author = {Guang-Wei Li and Liang Wang and Hai-Long Yuan and Li-Ping Xin and Jing Wang and Chao Wu and Hua-Li Li and Hasitieer Haerken and Wei-Hua Wang and Hong-Bo Cai and Xu-Hui Han and Yang Xu and Lei Huang and Xiao-Meng Lu and Jian-Ying Bai and Xiang-Yu Wang and Zi-Gao Dai and En-Wei Liang and Jian-Yan Wei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.08183},
  year   = {2024}
}

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18 pages, 11 figures, 4 tables