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We present a novel method for the optimal selection of quasars using time-series observations in a single photometric bandpass. Utilizing the damped random walk model of Kelly et al. (2009), we parameterize the ensemble quasar structure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Nathaniel R. Butler , Joshua S. Bloom

We present our search for flares from M dwarf stars in the SkyMapper Southern Survey DR1, which covers nearly the full Southern hemisphere with six-filter sequences that are repeatedly observed in the passbands $uvgriz$. This allows us to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 Seo-Won Chang , Christian Wolf , Christopher A. Onken

Stellar variability is a limiting factor for planet detection and characterization, particularly around active M-type stars. Here we revisit one of the most active stars from the Kepler mission, the M4 star GJ 1243, and use a sample of 414…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-13 Guadalupe Tovar Mendoza , James R. A. Davenport , Eric Agol , James A. G. Jackman , Suzanne L. Hawley

Blazars are a subclass of active galactic nuclei with relativistic jets pointing toward the observer. They are notable for their flux variability at all observed wavelengths and timescales. Together with simultaneous measurements at lower…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-21 Hermann Stolte , Jonas Sinapius , Iftach Sadeh , Elisa Pueschel , Matthias Weidlich , David Berge

In the study of stellar flares, traditional method of calculating total energy emitted in the continuum assumes the emission originating from a narrow chromospheric condensation region with a constant temperature of 10000 K and variable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-15 K. Bicz , R. Falewicz , P. Heinzel , P. Preś , D. Moździerski , A. Pigulski , D. Marchev , K. Kotysz , T. Atanasova , G. Yordanova , A. Georgiev

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…

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 the light curves of 1376 early-to-late, nearby M dwarfs to search for white-light flares using photometry from the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN). We identified 480 M dwarfs with at least one potential flare…

With the availability of large-scale surveys like Kepler and TESS, there is a pressing need for automated methods to classify light curves according to known classes of variable stars. We introduce a new algorithm for classifying light…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-30 Nicholas H. Barbara , Timothy R. Bedding , Ben D. Fulcher , Simon J. Murphy , Timothy Van Reeth

We present a flare rate analysis of 50,130 M dwarf light curves in SDSS Stripe 82. We identified 271 flares using a customized variability index to search ~2.5 million photometric observations for flux increases in the u- and g-bands. Every…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-28 A. F. Kowalski , S. L. Hawley , E. J. Hilton , A. C. Becker , A. A. West , J. J. Bochanski , B. Sesar

The habitability of planets is closely connected with the stellar activity, mainly the frequency of flares and the distribution of flare energy. Kepler and TESS find many flaring stars are detected via precise time-domain photometric data,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-19 Dong-Yang Gao , Hui-Gen Liu , Ming Yang , Ji-Lin Zhou

I introduce a general, Bayesian method for modelling univariate time series data assumed to be drawn from a continuous, stochastic process. The method accommodates arbitrary temporal sampling, and takes into account measurement…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-24 C. A. L. Bailer-Jones

Quasi-periodic pulsations (QPP) are often detected in solar and stellar flare lightcurves. These events may contain valuable information about the underlying fundamental plasma dynamics as they are not described by the standard flare model.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-12 Sergey A. Belov , Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov , Valery M. Nakariakov , Anne-Marie Broomhal

We consider imaging of solar flares from NASA RHESSI data as a parametric imaging problem, where flares are represented as a finite collection of geometric shapes. We set up a Bayesian model in which the number of objects forming the image…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-26 Federica Sciacchitano , Silvio Lugaro , Alberto Sorrentino

A convolutional neural network (CNN) is used to construct a new catalog for solar flares based on high resolution (1-s cadence) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) soft X-ray data. The CNN is trained to identify flare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-13 Nastaran Farhang , Michael. S. Wheatland , Andrew Melatos

This paper proposes a fully Bayesian framework for node-level outlier detection in graph signals, where measurements are observed on the nodes of an underlying graph. Unlike traditional outlier detection methods, our approach accounts for…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-17 Seongmin Kim , Kyusoon Kim

We explore methods for the identification of stellar flare events in irregularly sampled data of ground-based time domain surveys. In particular, we describe a new technique for identifying flaring stars, which we have implemented in a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Kellen D. Lawson , John P. Wisniewski , Eric C. Bellm , Adam F. Kowalski , David L. Shupe

In this study, new observations and some results of statistical analyses are presented. The largest flare data set of DO Cep in the literature has been obtained with 89 flares detected in 67.61 hours of U-band flare patrol. First of all,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-28 H. A. Dal

Context. Quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) are an inherent feature of solar and stellar flares. However, the mechanism behind them is debated hence it is necessary to further study them to obtain a complete picture of flares and their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Aadish Joshi , Tom Van Doorsselaere , Daye Lim , Dario J. Fritzewski

We present the results of a novel application of Bayesian modelling techniques, which, although purely data driven, have a physically interpretable result, and will be useful as an efficient data mining tool. We base our studies on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. A. Nolan , M. O. Harva , A Kaban , S. Raychaudhury