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Although late-type dwarfs and giant stars are substantially different, their flares are thought to originate in similar physical processes and differ only by a scale factor in the energy levels. We study the validity of this approach. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 Katalin Oláh , Bálint Seli , Zsolt Kővári , Levente Kriskovics , Krisztián Vida

We present a flare catalog of the {\it Kepler} mission using the long-cadence data of Data Release 25. This catalog comprises 3420 flare stars and 162,262 flare events. A comparison shows that the flare catalogs of previous studies are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Huiqin Yang , Jifeng Liu

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…

We have carried out a search for flares from the analysis of light curves for 12 active G, K, and M dwarfs. As sources of data we used ground-based observations in 2000-2020 from the photometric databases ASAS, SuperWASP, KWS. Events of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 N. I. Bondar' , M. M. Katsova , A. A. Shlyapnikov

Stars which are rapidly rotating are expected to show high levels of activity according to the activity-rotation relation. However, previous TESS studies have found Ultra Fast Rotating (UFR) M dwarfs with periods less than one day…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-02 Lauren Doyle , Stefano Bagnulo , Gavin Ramsay , Gerry Doyle , Pasi Hakala

Kepler data from G-, K- and M-type stars are used to study conditions that lead to superflares with energies above $10^{34} {\rm erg}$. From the 117,661 stars included, 380 show superflares with a total of 1690 such events. We study whether…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-20 Simon Candelaresi , Andrew Hillier , Hiroyuki Maehara , Axel Brandenburg , Kazunari Shibata

Using a recent census of flare stars from the Kepler survey, we have explored how flare activity evolves across stellar main sequence lifetimes. We utilize a sample of 347 stars with robust flare activity detections, and which have rotation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 James R. A. Davenport , Kevin R. Covey , Riley W. Clarke , Austin C. Boeck , Jonathan Cornet , Suzanne L. Hawley

We wrote and used an automated flare detection Python script to search for super-flares on main-sequence stars of types A, F, G, K, and M in Kepler's long-cadence data from Q0 to Q17. We studied the statistical properties of the occurrence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-08 A. K. Althukair , D. Tsiklauri

Most M dwarfs show higher chromospheric activity, often exceeding solar levels. Characterizing stellar activity is essential, particularly since these stars are prime targets in the search for habitable exoplanets. We investigate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 A. S. Rajpurohit , V. Kumar , K. Srivastava Mudit , L. Labadie , K. Rajpurohit , J. G. Fernandez-Trincado

M dwarfs are the most common type of star in the solar neighborhood, and many exhibit frequent and highly energetic flares. To better understand these events across the electromagnetic spectrum, a campaign observed AU Mic (dM1e) over 7 days…

Characterizing the distribution of flare properties and occurrence rates is important for understanding habitability of M dwarf exoplanets. The GALEX space telescope observed the GJ 65 system, composed of the active, flaring M stars BL Cet…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Scott W. Fleming , Chase Million , Rachel A. Osten , Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov , C. E. Brasseur

Understanding and characterising the magnetic activity of M dwarfs is of paramount importance in the search for Earth-like exoplanets orbiting them. Energetic stellar activity phenomena, such as flares or coronal mass ejections, which are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-31 P. Mas-Buitrago , J. -Y. Zhang , E. Solano , E. L. Martín

We present an analysis of K2 short cadence data of 34 M dwarfs which have spectral types in the range M0 - L1. Of these stars, 31 showed flares with a duration between $\sim$10-90 min. Using distances obtained from Gaia DR2 parallaxes, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 L. Doyle , G. Ramsay , J. G. Doyle , K. Wu , E. Scullion

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

M dwarfs are known to flare on timescales from minutes to hours, with flux increases of several magnitudes in the blue/near-UV. These frequent, powerful events, which are caused by magnetic reconnection, will have a strong observational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Eric J. Hilton , Suzanne L. Hawley , Adam F. Kowalski , Jon Holtzman

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

By extending our previous study by Maehara et al. (2012), we searched for superflares on G-type dwarfs (solar type stars) using Kepler data for a longer period (500 days) than that (120 days) in our previous study. As a result, we found…

Based on one-month long MMT time-series observations of the open cluster M37, we monitored light variations of nearly 2500 red dwarfs and successfully identified 420 flare events from 312 cluster M dwarf stars. For each flare light curve,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-16 S. -W. Chang , Y. -I. Byun , J. D. Hartman

We analyze physical characteristics of late-type stars wherein the Kepler mission registered superflares. We use the revised stellar fundamental parameters, i.e. effective temperatures Teff and surface gravitational accelerations log g,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-27 M. M. Katsova , B. A. Nizamov

We aim to give a reliable estimate of the number of flaring giant stars in the Kepler field. By analyzing the flaring activity of these stars we explore their flare statistics and the released flare energies. The role of oscillation in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-10 K. Oláh , Zs. Kővári , M. N. Günther , K. Vida , P. Gaulme , B. Seli , A. Pál