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Ways to give medium- and short-term predictions of solar flares are proposed according to the statistical analysis of events during solar cycle 23. On one hand, the time distribution of both C and M class flares shows two main periods of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-17 Z. Q. Qu

Context: Chromospheric activity produces both photometric and spectroscopic variations that can be mistaken as planets. Large spots crossing the stellar disc can produce planet-like periodic variations in the light curve of a star. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 R. Martinez-Arnaiz , J. Maldonado , D. Montes , C. Eiroa , B. Montesinos

Like the solar cycle, stellar activity cycles are also irregular. Observations reveal that rapidly rotating (young) Sun-like stars exhibit a high level of activity with no Maunder-like grand minima and rarely display smooth regular activity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 Vindya Vashishth , Bidya Binay Karak , Leonid Kitchatinov

We explore the biological damage initiated in the environments of F, G, K, and M-type main-sequence stars due to photospheric, chromospheric and flare radiation. The amount of chromospheric radiation is, in a statistical sense, directly…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Cuntz , E. F. Guinan , R. L. Kurucz

We present a study of the variation timescales of the chromospheric activity indicator H$\alpha$ on a sample of 13 fully-convective, active mid-to-late M stars with masses between 0.1--0.3 solar masses. Our goal was to determine the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-13 Amber A. Medina , David Charbonneau , Jennifer G. Winters , Jonathan Irwin , Jessica Mink

The detection of Earth-like planets with the radial-velocity method is currently limited by the presence of stellar activity signatures. On rotational timescales, spots and plages (or faculae) are known to introduce different RV signals,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-25 M. Cretignier , A. G. M. Pietrow , S. Aigrain

Context. M dwarfs are an ideal laboratory for hunting Earth-like planets, and the study of chromospheric activity is an important part of this task. On the one hand, its short-term activity show high levels of magnetic activity that can…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-30 R. V. Ibañez Bustos , A. P. Buccino , N. Nardetto , D. Mourard , M. Flores , P. J. D. Mauas

Flare occurrence on the Sun is highly variable, exhibiting both short term variation due to the emergence and evolution of active regions, and long-term variation from the solar cycle. On solar-like stars, much larger stellar flares…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-04 James Crowley , Michael S. Wheatland , Kai Yang

We analyzed here the connection of superflares and the lithium abundance in G and K stars based on Li abundance determinations conducted with the echelle spectra of a full set of 280 stars obtained with the ELODIE spectrograph. For…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 M. M. Katsova , M. A. Livshits , T. V. Mishenina , B. A. Nizamov

Features of the development of activity cycles in the solar-type stars and fast-rotating cool dwarfs have been considered for 65 stars observed in some decades. Cycles with duration of 7-18 years compared to the solar cycle were found for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-25 N. I. Bondar , M. M. Katsova , M. A. Livshits

We study the time variations of the cycles of 20 active stars based on decades-long photometric or spectroscopic observations. A method of time-frequency analysis, as discussed in a companion paper, is applied to the data. Fifteen stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 K. Oláh , Z. Kolláth , T. Granzer , K. G. Strassmeier , A. F. Lanza , S. Järvinen , H. Korhonen , S. L. Baliunas , W. Soon , S. Messina , G. Cutispoto

Spectroscopic analyses of young late-type stars suffer from systematic inaccuracies, typically under-estimating metallicities but over-estimating abundances of certain elements including oxygen and barium. Effects are stronger in younger…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-11 T. Nordlander , M. Baratella , L. Spina , V. D'Orazi

We applied the method of continuous wavelet-transform to the time-frequency analysis to the sets of observations of relative sunspot numbers, sunspot areas and to 6 Mount Wilson HK-project stars with well-defined magnetic cycles. Wavelet…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-20 E. A. Bruevich , V. V. Bruevich , B. P. Artamonov

By using the LAMOST time-domain survey data, we study stellar activities based on the $\rm{H_{\alpha}}$ lines for about 2000 stars in four $K$2 plates. Two indices, $R_{\rm{H\alpha}}^{'}$ and $R_{\rm{H\alpha}}^{+}$, are computed from LAMOST…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-04 Henggeng Han , Song Wang , Yu Bai , Huiqin Yang , Xiangsong Fang , Jifeng Liu

There is growing observational evidence for some kind of interaction between stars and close-in extrasolar giant planets. Shkolnik et al. reported variability in the chromospheric Ca H and K lines of HD 179949 and upsilon And that seemed to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Steven R. Cranmer , Steven H. Saar

Excess chromospheric emissions within deep photospheric lines are effective proxies of stellar magnetism for FGK stars. This emission decays with stellar age and is a potential determinant of this important stellar quantity. We report…

Chromospheric activity is widely used as an age indicator for solar-type stars based on the early evidence that there is a smooth evolution from young and active to old and inactive stars. We analysed chromospheric activity in five…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-07 G. Pace , J. Melendez , L. Pasquini , G. Carraro , J. Danziger , P. Francois , F. Matteucci , N. C. Santos

We investigate magnetic activity properties of 21 stars via medium resolution optical spectra and long-term photometry. Applying synthetic spectrum fitting method, we find that all targets are cool giant or sub-giant stars possessing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 Orkun Özdarcan

Stellar chromospheric activity serves as a valuable proxy for estimating stellar ages, though its applicable range and accurate functional form are still debated. In this study, utilizing the LAMOST spectra we compiled a catalog of open…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Henggeng Han , Song Wang , Xue Li , Chuanjie Zheng , Jiahui Wang , Jifeng Liu

The variability of H$\alpha$ chromospheric activity of solar-like stars is investigated by using the time-domain data of LAMOST Medium-Resolution Spectroscopic Survey (MRS). We use $R_\mathrm{H\alpha}$ index (ratio of H$\alpha$ luminosity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-10 Han He , Ali Luo , Haotong Zhang , Song Wang