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We present a new method for estimating the total energy radiated by stellar flares in broad-band continua, which assumes a constant emitting area but incorporates a time-dependent temperature evolution. This physically motivated approach…

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We describe and use two different statistical approaches to try and detect low-frequency solar oscillations in Sun-as-a-star data: a frequentist approach and a Bayesian approach. We have used frequentist statistics to search contemporaneous…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. -M. Broomhall , W. J. Chaplin , Y. Elsworth , T. Appourchaux , R. New

Stellar flares are powerful bursts of electromagnetic radiation triggered by magnetic reconnection in the chromosphere of stars, occurring frequently and intensely on active M dwarfs. While missions like TESS and Kepler have studied regular…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-16 J. Poyatos , O. Fors , J. M. Gómez Cama , I. Ribas

A Bayesian approach to solar flare prediction has been developed, which uses only the event statistics of flares already observed. The method is simple, objective, and makes few ad hoc assumptions. It is argued that this approach should be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-09 M. S. Wheatland

Bayesian model comparison frameworks can be used when fitting models to data in order to infer the appropriate model complexity in a data-driven manner. We aim to use them to detect the correct number of major episodes of star formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-27 Andrew J. Lawler , Viviana Acquaviva

Stellar flares are sudden brightenings caused by magnetic reconnection and are frequently observed on late-type stars. High-cadence photometry of flares provides valuable insights into the mechanisms of these events, yet such observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-26 B. Schmercz , B. Seli , K. Vida , L. Kriskovics , A. Görgei , K. Oláh , Zs. Regály

We present a novel automated methodology to detect and classify periodic variable stars in a large database of photometric time series. The methods are based on multivariate Bayesian statistics and use a multi-stage approach. We applied our…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-27 J. Blomme , L. M. Sarro , F. T. O'Donovan , J. Debosscher , T. Brown , M. Lopez , P. Dubath , L. Rimoldini , D. Charbonneau , E. Dunham , G. Mandushev , D. R. Ciardi , J. De Ridder , C. Aerts

We present a proof-of-concept of a novel and fully Bayesian methodology designed to detect halos of different masses in cosmological observations subject to noise and systematic uncertainties. Our methodology combines the previously…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Alexander I. Merson , Jens Jasche , Filipe B. Abdalla , Ofer Lahav , Benjamin Wandelt , D. Heath Jones , Matthew Colless

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 two main results, based on the models and the statistical analyses of 1672 U-band flares. We also discuss the behaviours of the white-light flares. In addition, the parameters of the flares detected from two years of observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 H. A. Dal

Stellar flare events are critical observational samples for astronomical research; however, recorded flare events remain limited. Stellar flare forecasting can provide additional flare event samples to support research efforts. Despite this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-23 Bingke Zhu , Xiaoxiao Wang , Minghui Jia , Yihan Tao , Xiao Kong , Ali Luo , Yingying Chen , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

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

Stellar flares offer invaluable insights into stellar magnetic activity and exoplanetary environments. Automated flare detection enables exploiting vast photometric datasets from missions like Kepler. This paper presents FCN4Flare, a deep…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-19 Ming-Hui Jia , A-Li Luo , Bo Qiu

We present and implement a probabilistic (Bayesian) method for producing catalogs from images of stellar fields. The method is capable of inferring the number of sources N in the image and can also handle the challenges introduced by noise,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Brendon J. Brewer , Daniel Foreman-Mackey , David W. Hogg

A method is developed for fitting theoretically predicted astronomical spectra to an observed spectrum. Using a hierarchical Bayesian principle, the method takes both systematic and statistical measurement errors into account, which has not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Z. Shkedy , L. Decin , G. Molenberghs , C. Aerts

We utilize the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search (SWEEPS) HST/ACS dataset for a Deep Rapid Archival Flare Transient Search (DRAFTS) to constrain the flare rate toward the older stellar population in the Galactic bulge.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Rachel A. Osten , Adam Kowalski , Kailash Sahu , Suzanne Hawley

The ability to automatically and robustly self-verify periodicity present in time-series astronomical data is becoming more important as data sets rapidly increase in size. The age of large astronomical surveys has rendered manual…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-14 Niall Miller , Philip Lucas , Yi Sun , Zhen Guo , Calum Morris , William Cooper

Flares are a well-studied aspect of the Sun's magnetic activity. Detecting and classifying solar flares can inform the analysis of contamination caused by stellar flares in exoplanet transmission spectra. In this paper, we present a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-25 Nicole Hao , Laura Flagg , Ray Jayawardhana

We developed a method to separate a long-term trend from observed temporal variations of polarization in blazars using a Bayesian approach. The temporal variation of the polarization vector is apparently erratic in most blazars, while…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Makoto Uemura , Koji S. Kawabata , Mahito Sasada , Yuki Ikejiri , Kiyoshi Sakimoto , Ryosuke Itoh , Masayuki Yamanaka , Takashi Ohsugi , Shuji Sato , Masaru Kino

We report on a population of short duration near-ultraviolet (NUV) flares in stars observed by the Kepler and GALEX missions. We analyzed NUV light curves of 34,276 stars observed from 2009-2013 by both the GALEX (NUV) and Kepler (optical)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 C. E. Brasseur , Rachel A. Osten , Scott W. Fleming