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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

Stellar magnetic activity, just like that of the Sun, manifests itself in the form of flares and spots on the surface of the star. In the solar case, the largest flares originate from large active regions. In this work, we present a study…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-01 Alexandre Araújo , Adriana Valio

We investigate the effect of stellar activity and flares on short-term radial velocity measurements in the mid-M flare star CN Leo. Radial velocity variations are calculated from 181 UVES spectra obtained during three nights. We searched…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ansgar Reiners

Kepler K2 long cadence data are used to study white light flares in a sample of 45 L dwarfs. We identified 11 flares on 9 L dwarfs with equivalent durations of (1.3 - 198) hr and total (UV/optical/IR) energies of $\geq$0.9 $\times$…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 Rishi R. Paudel , John E. Gizis , D. J. Mullan , Peter K. G. Williams , Adam J. Burgasser , Sarah J. Schmidt

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

We have identified 63 flares on M dwarfs from the individual component spectra in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey using a novel measurement of emission line strength called the Flare Line Index. Each of the ~38,000 M dwarfs in the SDSS low…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Eric J. Hilton , Andrew A. West , Suzanne L. Hawley , Adam F. Kowalski

We performed simple spot-model calculations for quasi-periodic brightness variations of solar-type stars showing superflares, by using Kepler photometric data. Most of superflare stars show quasi-periodic brightness modulations with the…

We study the dependence of the coronal activity index on the star's rotation rate. This question was considered earlier for 824 late-type stars on the basis of a consolidated catalogue of the soft X-ray fluxes. We carry out a more refined…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-22 B. A. Nizamov , M. M. Katsova , M. A. Livshits

Starspots and flares are indicators of stellar magnetic activity that can both be studied in greater detail by utilizing the long-term, space-based archive of the Kepler satellite. Here, we aim to investigate a subset of the Kepler archive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 Rachael M. Roettenbacher , Krisztián Vida

We searched for superflares on solar-type stars using Kepler data with 1 min sampling in order to detect superflares with short duration. We found 187 superflares on 23 solar-type stars whose bolometric energy ranges from the order of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-11 Hiroyuki Maehara , Takuya Shibayama , Yuta Notsu , Shota Notsu , Satoshi Honda , Daisaku Nogami , Kazunari Shibata

A homogeneous search for stellar flares has been performed using every available Kepler light curve. An iterative light curve de-trending approach was used to filter out both astrophysical and systematic variability to detect flares. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-28 James R. A. Davenport

We report the white light flare rates for 10 ultracool dwarfs (UCDs) using \textit{Kepler K2} short cadence data. Among our sample stars, two have spectral type M6, three are M7, three are M8 and two are L0. Most of our targets are old low…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-06 Rishi R. Paudel , John E. Gizis , D. J. Mullan , Sarah J. Schmidt , Adam J. Burgasser , Peter K. G. Williams , Edo Berger

We present an analysis of flare activity in wide binary stars using a combination of value-added data sets from the NASA Kepler mission. The target list contains a set of previously discovered wide binary star systems identified by proper…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 Riley W. Clarke , James R. A. Davenport , Kevin R. Covey , Christoph Baranec

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

How do the characteristics of starspots influence the triggering of stellar flares? Here we investigate the activity of two K-type stars, similar in every way from mass to rotation periods and planetary systems. Both stars exhibit about a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Alexandre Araújo , Adriana Valio

The relation between magnetic activity and rotation in late-type stars provides fundamental information on stellar dynamos and angular momentum evolution. Rotation/activity studies found in the literature suffer from inhomogeneity in the…

We present results from the volume-complete spectroscopic survey of 0.1-0.3M$_\odot$ M dwarfs within 15pc. This work discusses the active sample without close binary companions, providing a comprehensive picture of these 123 stars with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Emily K Pass , Jennifer G Winters , David Charbonneau , Jonathan M Irwin , Amber A Medina

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

We analyze the correlation between starspots and superflares on solar-type stars using observations from the Kepler mission. The analysis shows that the observed fraction of stars with superflares decreases as the rotation period increases…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 Hiroyuki Maehara , Yuta Notsu , Shota Notsu , Kosuke Namekata , Satoshi Honda , Takako T. Ishii , Daisaku Nogami , Kazunari Shibata

We report multi-wavelength monitoring observations of an M-dwarf flare star AD Leonis with Seimei Telescope (6150--7930 {\AA}), SCAT (Spectroscopic Chuo-university Astronomical Telescope; 3700--7500 {\AA}), NICER (Neutron Star Interior…