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Wide-field high-precision photometric observations such as \textit{Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)} allowed the investigation of the stellar magnetic activity of cool stars. M-dwarf's starspots and stellar flares are the main…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-10 Rajib Kumbhakar , Soumen Mondal , Samrat Ghosh , Diya Ram

Based on analysis of photometric observations of nearby M type stars obtained with ASAS, 31 periodic variables were detected. The determined periods are assumed to be related to rotation periods of the investigated stars. Among them 10 new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-16 M. Kiraga , K. Stepien

Context. The nature of the recently identified "sdA" spectroscopic class of star is not well understood. The thousands of known sdAs have H-dominated spectra, spectroscopic surface gravities intermediate to main sequence stars and isolated…

We study a sample of about 1400 disk M dwarfs that are found in 148 fields observed with the Wide Field Camera 2 (WFC2) on the Hubble Space Telescope and 162 fields observed with pre-repair Planetary Camera 1 (PC1), of which 95 of the WFC2…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Zheng Zheng , Chris Flynn , Andrew Gould , John N. Bahcall , Samir Salim

Using the Kepler K2 data, we studied the flare-activity of young K-and M-stars in the Upper Sco region and found that they have 10000 to 80000 times as many super-flares with E> 5E34 erg than solar like stars. The power-law index for flares…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-25 E. W. Guenther , D. Woeckel , P. Muheki

Using the SDSS DR7 spectroscopic catalog, we searched the WISE AllWISE catalog to investigate the occurrence of warm dust, as inferred from IR excesses, around field M dwarfs (dMs). We developed SDSS/WISE color selection criteria to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-14 Christopher A. Theissen , Andrew A. West

M-type stars are prime targets for exoplanet searches within their habitable zones (HZs). These stars also exhibit significant magnetic flaring activity, particularly during their first billion years, which can potentially accelerate the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-15 Andrea Caldiroli , Francesco Haardt , Elena Gallo , George King , Juliette Becker , Federico Biassoni , Riccardo Spinelli

We present chromospheric activity index $S\rm_{HK}$ measurements for over 13,000 F, G and K disk stars with high signal-to-noise ratio ($>$ 60) spectra in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7 (DR7) spectroscopic sample. A…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 J. K. Zhao , T. D. Oswalt , G. Zhao , Q. H. Lu , A. L. Luo , L. Y. Zhang

We present our 500 pc distance-limited study of stellar fares using the Dark Energy Camera as part of the Deeper, Wider, Faster Program. The data was collected via continuous 20-second cadence g band imaging and we identify 19,914 sources…

Flares on dM stars contain plasmas at very different temperatures and thus affect a wide wavelength range in the electromagnetic spectrum. While the coronal properties of flares are studied best in X-rays, the chromosphere of the star is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-15 B. Fuhrmeister , C. Liefke , J. H. M. M. Schmitt , A. Reiners

In our previous work, we searched for super-flares on different types of stars while focusing on G-type dwarfs using entire Kepler data to study statistical properties of the occurrence rate of super-flares. Using these new data, as a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-06 A. k. Althukair , D. Tsiklauri

The study is devoted to search for flare stars among confirmed members of Galactic open clusters using high-cadence photometry from {\it TESS} mission. We analyzed 957 high-cadence light curves of members from 136 open clusters. As a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-10 O. Maryeva , K. Bicz , C. Xia , M. Baratella , P. Čechvala , K. Vida

(abridged) The heating mechanism at high densities during M dwarf flares is poorly understood. Spectra of M dwarf flares in the optical and near-ultraviolet wavelength regimes have revealed three continuum components during the impulsive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Adam F. Kowalski , Suzanne L. Hawley , Mats Carlsson , Joel C. Allred , Han Uitenbroek , Rachel A. Osten , Gordon Holman

White-light flares (WLFs) are crucial for understanding the energy transport and heating processes in the lower solar atmosphere. Systematic studies are highly necessary. However, most WLFs are very weak and difficult to detect. To address…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 Shuanghong Li , Yongliang Song , Kun Wang , Xianyong Bai , Xiao Yang , Nian Liu , Ziyao Hu

We present a statistical parallax analysis of low-mass dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We calculate absolute r-band magnitudes (M_r) as a function of color and spectral type, and investigate changes in M_r with location in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 John J. Bochanski , Suzanne L. Hawley , Andrew A. West

We present spectroscopic rotation velocities (v sin i) for 56 M dwarf stars using high resolution HET HRS red spectroscopy. In addition we have also determined photometric effective temperatures, masses and metallicities ([Fe/H]) for some…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 J S Jenkins , L W Ramsey , H R A Jones , Y Pavlenko , J Gallardo , J R Barnes , D J Pinfield

We report the discovery of 16 detached M-dwarf eclipsing binaries with J<16 mag and provide a detailed characterisation of three of them, using high-precision infrared light curves from the WFCAM Transit Survey (WTS). Such systems provide…

Observations made using TESS revealed a sample of low mass stars which show a periodic modulation on a period $<0.2$~d. Surprisingly many of these Ultra Fast Rotating (UFR) stars showed no evidence of flare activity which would be expected…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 Gavin Ramsay , Pasi Hakala , J. Gerry Doyle , Lauren Doyle , Stefano Bagnulo

Flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are important for the evolution of the atmospheres of planets and their potential habitability, particularly for planets orbiting M stars at a distance < 0.4 AU. Detections of CMEs on these stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Priscilla Muheki , Eike. W. Guenther , Tom Mutabazi , Edward Jurua

We report an observational estimate of the rate of stellar tidal disruption flares (TDFs), based on our (successful) search for these events in archival Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) multi-epoch imaging data. Our pipeline took advantage…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-30 Sjoert van Velzen , Glennys R. Farrar