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We analyze the light curve of 1740 flare stars to study the relationship between the magnetic feature characteristics and the identified flare activity. Coverage and stability of magnetic features are inspired by rotational modulation of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Hadis Goodarzi , Ahmad Mehrabi , Habib khosroshahi , Han He

We present Very Large Array observations of twelve late M and L dwarfs in the Solar neighborhood. The observed sources were chosen to cover a wide range of physical characteristics - spectral type, rotation, age, binarity, and X-ray and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Berger

We present the first results of our ongoing project conducting simultaneous multiwavelength observations of flares on nearby active M dwarfs. We acquired data of the nearby dM3.5e star EV Lac using 5 different observatories: NASA's…

We use ~12,000 spectra of ~3,500 magnetically active M0-M9 dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey taken at 10-15 minute intervals, together with ~300 spectra of ~60 M0-M8 stars obtained hourly with the Hydra multi-object spectrometer, to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Keaton J. Bell , Eric J. Hilton , James R. A. Davenport , Suzanne L. Hawley , Andrew A. West , Allen B. Rogel

Stellar activity is ubiquitously encountered in M dwarfs and often characterised by the H$\alpha$ line. In the most active M dwarfs, H$\alpha$ is found in emission, sometimes with a complex line profile. Previous studies have reported…

We report on the results of fifteen months of monitoring the nearby field L1 dwarf WISEP J190648.47+401106.8 (W1906+40) with the Kepler mission. Supporting observations with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array and Gemini North telescope…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 John E. Gizis , Adam J. Burgasser , Edo Berger , Peter K. G. Williams , Frederick J. Vrba , Kelle L. Cruz , Stanimir Metchev

A 20 second cadence TESS monitoring campaign of 226 low-mass flare stars during Cycle 3 recorded 3792 stellar flares of >10^32 erg. We explore the time-resolved emission and substructure in 440 of the largest flares observed at high S/N,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-09 Ward S. Howard , Meredith A. MacGregor

We perform a study of stellar flares for the 24,809 stars observed with 2 minute cadence during the first two months of the TESS mission. Flares may erode exoplanets' atmospheres and impact their habitability, but might also trigger the…

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

On planets near M dwarfs, photosynthesis (PS) will occur with an effectiveness which depends on the supply of visible photons with wavelengths between 400 and 700 nm. In this paper, we quantify the effectiveness of PS in two contexts which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-10 D. J. Mullan , H. P. Bais

We report on the results of our simultaneous observations of three large stellar flares with soft X-rays (SXRs) and an H$\mathrm{\alpha}$ emission line from two binary systems of RS CVn type. The energies released in the X-ray and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-06 Hiroki Kawai , Yohko Tsuboi , Wataru B. Iwakiri , Yoshitomo Maeda , Satoru Katsuda , Ryo Sasaki , Junya Kohara , MAXI TEAM

We conducted photometric and spectroscopic observations for Ross 15 in order to further study the flare properties of this less observed flare star. A total of 28 B-band flares are detected in 128 hours of photometric observations, leading…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-10 Jian-Ying Bai , Ali Esamdin , Xing Gao , Yan Yan , Juan-Juan Ren

M-type stars are prime targets for exoplanet searches within their habitable zones (HZs). These stars also exhibit significant magnetic flaring activity, particularly during their first billion years, which can potentially accelerate the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-15 Andrea Caldiroli , Francesco Haardt , Elena Gallo , George King , Juliette Becker , Federico Biassoni , Riccardo Spinelli

Aims: Changes of the magnetic field and the line-of-sight velocities in the photosphere are being reported for an M-class flare that originated at a $\delta$-spot belonging to active region NOAA 11865. Methods: High-resolution ground-based…

The hydrogen Paschen lines are known activity indicators, but studies of them in M~dwarfs during quiescence are as rare as their reports in flare studies. This situation is mostly caused by a lack of observations, owing to their location in…

Stellar flares are short-duration ($<$ hours) bursts of radiation associated with surface magnetic reconnection events. Stellar magnetic activity generally decreases as a function of both age and Rossby number, $R_0$, a measure of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-03 Adina D. Feinstein , Darryl Z. Seligman , Kevin France , Jonathan Gagné , Adam Kowalski

Aims: We aim to measure the starspot rotation periods of active stars in the Kepler field as a function of spectral type and to extend reliable rotation measurements from F-, G-, and K-type to M-type stars. Methods: Using the Lomb-Scargle…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-05 M. B. Nielsen , L. Gizon , H. Schunker , C. Karoff

Magnetic flux rope (MFR) plays an important role in solar activities. A quantitative assessment of the topology of an MFR and its evolution is crucial for a better understanding of the relationship between the MFR and the associated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-06 Kai Yang , Yang Guo , M. D. Ding

In many star-planet systems discovered so far, the innermost planet orbits within only a few stellar radii. In these systems, planets could become in-situ probes of the extended stellar magnetic field. Because they disturb the field as they…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-09 Ekaterina Ilin , Katja Poppenhäger , Judy Chebly , Nikoleta Ilić , Julián D. Alvarado-Gómez

On the basis of the 30-year ago ground-based photometry and the recent Kepler space experiment there have been considered frequencies of occurrence and energetics of the solar-type stellar flares. It was concluded that frequencies of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-04 R. E. Gershberg