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Flares are short-lived but energetic manifestations of stellar activity. Studying them is crucial, as they emit intense high-energy radiation that can impact the circumstellar environment, especially the atmospheres of orbiting planets.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-22 G. Galletta , S. Colombo , L. Prisinzano , G. Micela

Active solar-type stars show large quasi-periodic brightness variations caused by stellar rotations with star spots, and the amplitude changes as the spots emerge and decay. The Kepler data are suitable for investigations on the emergence…

We use K2 short cadence data obtained over a duration of 50 days during Campaign 0 to observe two M1V dwarf stars, TYC 1330-879-1 and RXJ 0626+2349. We provide an overview of our data analysis, in particular, making a comparison between…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Gavin Ramsay , J. Gerry Doyle

We analyzed Kepler light curves of the blazar W2R 1926+42 that provided nearly continuous coverage from quarter 11 through quarter 17 (589 days between 2011 and 2013) and examined some of their flux variability properties. We investigate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-01 Yutong Li , Shaoming Hu , Paul J. Wiita , Alok C. Gupta

Kepler-30 is a unique target to study stellar activity and rotation in a young solar-like star accompanied by a compact planetary system. We use about 4 years of high-precision photometry collected by the Kepler mission to investigate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-09 D. B. de Freitas , A. F. Lanza , F. O. da Silva Gomes , M. L. Das Chagas

We investigate the variability properties of main sequence stars in the first month of Kepler data, using a new astrophysically robust systematics correction, and find that 60% of stars are more variable then the active Sun. We define low…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-24 Amy McQuillan , Suzanne Aigrain , Stephen Roberts

In a search of proper motion catalogs for common proper motion stars in the field of the Kepler spacecraft I identified 93 likely binary systems. A comparison of their rotation periods is a test of the gyrochronology concept. To find their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 K. A. Janes

We have used Kepler photometry to characterize variability in four radio-loud active galactic nuclei (three quasars and one object tentatively identified as a Seyfert 1.5 galaxy) on timescales from minutes to months, comparable to the light…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Ann E. Wehrle , Paul J. Wiita , Stephen C. Unwin , Paolo Di Lorenzo , Mitchell Revalski , Daniel Silano , Dan Sprague

For flares to be generated, stars have to have a sufficiently deep outer convection zone (F5 and later), strong large--scale magnetic fields (Ap/Bp-type stars) or strong, radiatively driven winds (B5 and earlier). Normal A-type stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-15 M. G. Pedersen , V. Antoci , H. Korhonen , T. R. White , J. Jessen-Hansen , J. Lehtinen , S. Nikbakhsh , J. Viuho

Brightness inhomogeneities in the stellar photosphere (dark spots or bright regions) affect the measurements of the planetary transmission spectrum. To investigate the star spots of the M dwarf GJ 1214, we conducted a multicolor photometric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 M. Mallonn , E. Herrero , I. G. Juvan , C. von Essen , A. Rosich , I. Ribas , T. Granzer , X. Alexoudi , K. G. Strassmeier

Flare research is becoming a burgeoning realm in the study of stellar activity due to the launch of {\it Kepler} in 2009. {\it Kepler} provides data with two time resolutions, i.e., the long-cadence (LC) data with a time resolution of 30…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-06 Huiqin Yang , Jifeng Liu , Erlin Qiao , Haotong Zhang , Qing Gao , Kaiming Cui , Henggeng Han

We utilize Kepler data to study the precision differential photometric variability of solar-type and cooler stars at different timescales, ranging from half an hour to 3 months. We define a diagnostic that characterizes the median…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-02 Gibor Basri , Lucianne Walkowicz , Ansgar Reiners

We have searched the Kepler light curves of ~3900 M-star targets for evidence of periodicities that indicate, by means of the effects of starspots, rapid stellar rotation. Several analysis techniques, including Fourier transforms,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 S. Rappaport , J. Swift , A. Levine , M. Joss , R. Sanchis-Ojeda , T. Barclay , M. Still , G. Handler , K. Oláh , P. S. Muirhead , D. Huber , K. Vida

Context. The Kepler mission has recently discovered a brown dwarf companion transiting one member of the M4V+M5V visual binary system LHS 6343 AB with an orbital period of 12.71 days. Aims. The particular interest of this transiting system…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 E. Herrero , A. F. Lanza , I. Ribas , C. Jordi , J. C. Morales

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 comprehensive multiwavelength investigation into flares and activity in nearby M~dwarf stars. We leverage the most extensive contemporaneous dataset obtained through the Transiting Exoplanet Sky Survey (TESS), Kepler/K2, the…

We present our observations of the low-mass eclipsing binary GJ~3236. We have analyzed a phased $R_C$ light-curve and confirmed previously determined fundamental parameters of the components. We detected evolution of the spot(s) and found…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-07 S. Parimucha , P. Dubovsky , M. Vanko , M. Cokina

We studied light curves of GJ 1243, YZ CMi, and V374 Peg, observed by TESS for the presence of stellar spots and stellar flares. One of the main goals was to model light curves of spotted stars to estimate the number of spots along with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Kamil Bicz , Robert Falewicz , Małgorzata Pietras , Marek Siarkowski , Paweł Preś

We use high accuracy photometric data obtained with the Kepler satellite to monitor the activity modulations of the Kepler-210 planet host star over a time span of more than four years. Following the phenomenology of the star's light curve…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-07 P. Ioannidis , J. H. M. M. Schmitt

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