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We report simultaneous observations of the nearby flare star Proxima Centauri with VLT/UVES and XMM-Newton over three nights in March 2009. Our optical and X-ray observations cover the star's quiescent state, as well as its flaring activity…

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In this work, 1272 superflares on 311 stars are collected from 22,539 solar-type stars from the second-year observation of Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which almost covered the northern hemisphere of the sky. Three…

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\textit{Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer} Deep Survey observations of cool stars (spectral type F to M) have been used to investigate the distribution of coronal flare rates in energy and its relation to activity indicators and rotation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Marc Audard , Manuel Guedel , Jeremy J. Drake , Vinay L. Kashyap

We present the results of an observational campaign which obtained high time cadence, high precision, simultaneous optical and IR photometric observations of three M dwarf flare stars for 47 hours. The campaign was designed to characterize…

The evolution of an X2.7 solar flare, that occurred in a complex $\beta\gamma\delta$ magnetic configuration region on 2003 November 3 is discussed utilizing a multi-wavelength data set. The very first signature of pre-flare coronal activity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bhuwan Joshi , P. K. Manoharan , Astrid M. Veronig , P. Pant , Kavita Pandey

We have modelled the X-ray emission of T Tauri stars assuming that they have isothermal, magnetically-confined coronae. These coronae extend outwards until either the pressure of the hot coronal gas overcomes the magnetic field, or, if the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Jardine , A. Collier Cameron , J. -F. Donati , S. G. Gregory , K. Wood

We investigate gamma-ray emission in the impulsive phase of solar flares and the detectability of non-thermal signatures from protostellar flares. Energetic solar flares emit high-energy gamma rays of GeV energies, but their production…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-08 Shigeo S. Kimura , Shinsuke Takasao , Kengo Tomida

We performed an intensive photometric monitoring of the PMS stars falling in a field of about 10x10 arc-minutes in the vicinity of the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC). Photometric data were collected between November 2006 and January 2007 with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-05 A. Frasca , E. Covino , L. Spezzi , J. M. Alcala' , E. Marilli , G. Furesz , D. Gandolfi

We analyze the structure and evolution of ribbons from the M7.3 SOL2014-04-18T13 flare using ultraviolet (UV) images from IRIS and SDO/AIA, magnetic data from SDO/HMI, hard X-ray (HXR) images from RHESSI, and light curves from Fermi/GBM, in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-09 Stephen J. Naus , Jiong Qiu , C. Richard DeVore , Spiro K. Antiochos , Joel T. Dahlin , James F. Drake , Marc Swisdak

X-ray spectra from stellar coronae are reprocessed by the underlying photosphere through scattering and photoionization events. While reprocessed X-ray spectra reaching a distant observer are at a flux level of only a few percent of that of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeremy J. Drake , Barbara Ercolano , Douglas A. Swartz

We present an analysis of J, H, and K time series photometry obtained with the southern 2MASS telescope over a 0.84 x 6 deg^2 region centered near the Orion Nebula Cluster. These data are used to establish the near-infrared variability…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-15 John M. Carpenter , Lynne A. Hillenbrand , M. F. Skrutskie

We investigate the thermal properties of a solar flare by the observations of soft X-ray Telescope (XRT) on board Hinode and the Atmospheric Image Assembly on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO/AIA). Our analysis reveals a tenuous…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-22 Xiaoyan Xie , Anna Chen , Crisel Suarez , Katharine K. Reeves , Soumya Roy , Christopher S. Moore , Nishu Karna , Joy Velasquez

High resolution X-ray spectra of very young massive stars opened a new chapter in the diagnostics and understanding of the properties of stellar wind plasmas. Observations of several very young early type stars in the Orion Trapezium…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 N. S. Schulz , C. R. Canizares , D. P. Huenemoerder , J. Lee , K. Tibetts

We analyze new observations of superflares on G-stars discovered in the optical and near IR ranges with the Kepler mission. An evolution of solar-type activity is discussed. We give an estimate of the maximal total energy, $E_{tot} =…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 M. M. Katsova , M. A. Livshits

We present an analysis of a flare on the Wolf 359 star based on simultaneous observations of TESS and XMM-Newton. A stellar flare with energy comparable to an X-class solar flare is analyzed on this star for the first time. The main goal of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-08 Małgorzata Pietras , Robert Falewicz , Marek Siarkowski , Anna Kepa , Kamil Bicz , Paweł Preś

We show that stellar coronae can be composed of X-ray emitting structures like those in the solar corona, using a large set of ROSAT/PSPC observations of late-type-stars, and a large set of solar X-ray data collected with Yohkoh/SXT. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Peres , S. Orlando , F. Reale

We analyzed X-Shooter/VLT spectra of 24 ClassIII sources from three nearby star-forming regions (sigmaOrionis, LupusIII, and TWHya). We determined the effective temperature, surface gravity, rotational velocity, and radial velocity by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 B. Stelzer , A. Frasca , J. M. Alcala , C. F. Manara , K. Biazzo , E. Covino , E. Rigliaco , L. Testi , S. Covino , V. D'Elia

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…

The origin of the near-ultraviolet and optical continuum radiation in flares is critical for understanding particle acceleration and impulsive heating in stellar atmospheres. Radiative-hydrodynamic simulations in 1D have shown that high…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 Adam F. Kowalski , Joel C. Allred

Small amplitude quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) detected in soft X-ray emission are commonplace in many flares. To date, the underpinning processes resulting in the QPPs are unknown. In this paper, we attempt to constrain the prevalence of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-03 Laura A. Hayes , Andrew R. Inglis , Steven Christe , Brian Dennis , Peter T. Gallagher