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Cygnus OB2 is the nearest example of a massive star forming region, containing over 50 O-type stars and hundreds of B-type stars. We have analyzed two Chandra pointings in Cyg OB2, detecting ~1700 X-ray sources, of which ~1450 are thought…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Nicholas J. Wright , Jeremy J. Drake , Janet E. Drew , Jorick S. Vink

We present an analysis of seven intense X-ray flares observed from six stars (LAV 796, LAV 1174, SHM2002 3734, 2MASS 02191082+5707324, V553 Car, V557 Car) for the first time. These stars are located in the region of young open star clusters…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Himali Bhatt , J. C. Pandey , K. P. Singh , Ram Sagar , Brijesh Kumar

Most stellar flares' soft X-ray lightcurves possess a `typical' morphology, which consists of a rapid rise followed by a slow exponential decay. However, a study of 216 of the brightest flares on 161 pre-main sequence stars, observed during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 C. P. Johnstone , S. G. Gregory , M. M. Jardine , K. V. Getman

Daily X-ray flaring represents an enigmatic phenomenon of Sgr A$^{\star}$ --- the supermassive black hole at the center of our Galaxy. We report initial results from a systematic X-ray study of this phenomenon, based on extensive {\it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-29 Qiang Yuan , Q. Daniel Wang

The young massive OB association Cygnus OB2, in the Cygnus X complex, is the closest (1400 pc) star forming region to the Sun hosting thousands of young low mass stars and up to 1000 OB stars, among which are some of the most massive stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-16 M. G. Guarcello , J. J. Drake , N. J. Wright , T. Naylor , E. Flaccomio , V. L. Kashyap , D. Garcia-Alvarez

Young stellar objects are known to exhibit strong radio variability on timescales of weeks to months, and a few reports have documented extreme radio flares, with at least an order of magnitude change in flux density on timescales of hours…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-02 Jan Forbrich , Mark J. Reid , Karl M. Menten , Victor Rivilla , Scott J. Wolk , Urvashi Rau , Claire J. Chandler

We present a new algorithm for the detection of flares in gamma-ray burst (GRB) light curves and use this algorithm to detect flares in the UV/optical. The algorithm makes use of the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) to analyze the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-22 C. A. Swenson , P. W. A. Roming , M. De Pasquale , S. R. Oates

The Chandra Orion Ultradeep Project observed hundreds of young, low-mass stars undergoing highly energetic X-ray flare events. The 32 most powerful cases have been modeled with the result that the magnetic structures responsible for these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Alicia N. Aarnio , Keivan G. Stassun , Sean P. Matt

Pre-main sequence (PMS) stars are known to produce powerful X-ray flares which resemble magnetic reconnection solar flares scaled by factors up to 10^4. However, numerous puzzles are present including the structure of X-ray emitting coronae…

Flares are short-lived but energetic manifestations of stellar activity. Studying them is crucial, as they emit intense high-energy radiation that can impact the circumstellar environment, especially the atmospheres of orbiting planets.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-22 G. Galletta , S. Colombo , L. Prisinzano , G. Micela

The X-ray light curves of pre-main sequence stars can show variability in the form of flares altering a baseline characteristic activity level; the largest X-ray flares are characterized by a rapid rise to more than 10 times the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Jacqueline McCleary , Scott Wolk

We present a catalogue of 1696 X-ray sources detected in the massive star forming region (SFR) Cygnus OB2 and extracted from two archival Chandra observations of the center of the region. A deep source extraction routine, exploiting the low…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 N. J. Wright , J. J. Drake

(Abridged) We report results from a comprehensive study of the nearby M dwarf Proxima Centauri with the XMM-Newton satellite. We find strongly variable coronal X-ray emission, with flares ranging over a factor of 100 in peak flux. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Guedel , M. Audard , F. Reale , S. L. Skinner , J. L. Linsky

We present the first rates of flares from M dwarf stars in both red optical and near infrared (NIR) filters. We have studied ~50,000 M dwarfs from the SDSS Stripe 82 area, and 1,321 M dwarfs from the 2MASS Calibration Scan Point Source…

We apply multi-algorithm machine learning models to TESS 2-minute survey data from Sectors 1-72 to identify stellar flares. Models trained with Deep Neural Network, Random Forest, and XGBoost algorithms, respectively, utilized four flare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-24 Chia-Lung Lin , Daniel Apai , Mark S. Giampapa , Wing-Huen Ip

We present results of a Chandra observation of a field in NGC 2264. The observations were taken with the ACIS-I camera with an exposure time of 48.1 ks. We present a catalog of 263 sources, which includes X-ray luminosity, optical and…

We investigate the flare-frequency distributions of 5 M-dwarfs that experienced superflares with energies in excess of $10^{33}$ erg detected by ASAS-SN. We use K2 and TESS short-cadence observations along with archival ASAS-SN data to…

Cygnus OB2 is the nearest example of a massive star forming region, containing over 50 O-type stars and hundreds of B-type stars. We have analysed the properties of young stars in two fields in Cyg OB2 using the recently published deep…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Nicholas J. Wright , Jeremy J. Drake , Janet E. Drew , Jorick S. Vink

We present a large-scale study of diffuse X-ray emission in the nearby massive stellar association Cygnus OB2 as part of the Chandra Cygnus OB2 Legacy Program. We used 40 Chandra X-ray ACIS-I observations covering $\sim$1.0 deg$^2$. After…

We report on the analysis of the Chandra-ACIS data of O, B and WR stars in the young association Cyg OB2. X-ray spectra of 49 O-stars, 54 B-stars and 3 WR-stars are analyzed and for the brighter sources, the epoch dependence of the X-ray…