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Flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are important for the evolution of the atmospheres of planets and their potential habitability, particularly for planets orbiting M stars at a distance < 0.4 AU. Detections of CMEs on these stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Priscilla Muheki , Eike. W. Guenther , Tom Mutabazi , Edward Jurua

Rotation is a critical physical process operating in the formation of Am stars. There is a strong correlation between low-velocity rotation and chemical peculiarity. However, the existence of many non-CP slow rotators challenges the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Li Qin , A-Li Luo , Wen Hou , Yin-Bi Li , Kai-Ming Cui , Fang Zuo , Shuo Zhang , Rui Wang , Jin-Shu Han , Li-Li Wang , Yan Lu , Xiang-Lei Chen

A small flare ribbon above a sunspot umbra in active region 12205 was observed on November 7, 2014, at 12:00 UT in the blue imaging channel of the 1.5 m GREGOR telescope, using a 1 A Ca II H interference filter. Context observations from…

We report on two millimeter flares detected by ALMA at 220 GHz from AU Mic, a nearby M dwarf. The larger flare had a duration of only $\sim35$ sec, with peak $L_{R}=2\times10^{15}$ erg s$^{-1}$ Hz$^{-1}$, and lower limit on linear…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-30 Meredith A. MacGregor , Rachel A. Osten , A. Meredith Hughes

We investigate the flare-frequency distributions of 5 M-dwarfs that experienced superflares with energies in excess of $10^{33}$ erg detected by ASAS-SN. We use K2 and TESS short-cadence observations along with archival ASAS-SN data to…

We present a study of flare rates, rotation periods, and spectroscopic activity indicators of 125 single stars within 15 parsecs and with masses between 0.1$-$0.3 $M_\odot$ observed during the first year of the TESS mission, with the goal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Amber A. Medina , Jennifer G. Winters , Jonathan M. Irwin , David Charbonneau

We present the results of time-series photometric analysis of 15106 A-K type stars observed by the Kepler space mission. We identified 513 new rotational variables and measured their starspot rotation periods as a function of spectral type…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-10 Sowgata Chowdhury , Santosh Joshi , Chris A. Engelbrecht , Peter De Cat , Yogesh. C. Joshi , K. T. Paul

Light curves produced by the Kepler mission demonstrate stochastic brightness fluctuations (or "flicker") of stellar origin which contribute to the noise floor, limiting the sensitivity of exoplanet detection and characterization methods.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 Samuel J. Van Kooten , Evan H. Anders , Steven R. Cranmer

We aim to detect activity cycles in young main-sequence stars, analogous to the 11-year solar cycle, using combined photometric survey data. This research will enhance our understanding of how cycle periods relate to rotation rates in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-13 Deepak Chahal , Devika Kamath , Richard de Grijs , Benjamin T. Montet , Xiaodian Chen

Wide-field high-precision photometric observations such as \textit{Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)} allowed the investigation of the stellar magnetic activity of cool stars. M-dwarf's starspots and stellar flares are the main…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-10 Rajib Kumbhakar , Soumen Mondal , Samrat Ghosh , Diya Ram

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

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

Magnetic activity on stars manifests itself in the form of dark spots on the stellar surface, that cause modulation of a few percent in the light curve of the star as it rotates. When a planet eclipses its host star, it might cross in front…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-09 A. Valio , R. Estrela , Y. Netto , J. P. Bravo , J. R. de Medeiros

We study the relationship between Galactic location ($R, Z$) and photometric activity for 3.6 million M dwarf stars within 1 kpc of the Sun. For this purpose, we identify 906 unique flare events as a proxy for magnetic activity from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-05 Seo-Won Chang , Christian Wolf , Christopher A. Onken

We report the results of a high temporal resolution spectroscopic monitoring of the flare star AD Leo. During 4 nights, more than 600 spectra were taken in the optical range using the Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) and the Intermediate…

Starspots and stellar flares are indicators of stellar magnetic activity.The magnetic energy stored around spots is thought to be the origin of flares, but the connection is not completely understood. To investigate the relation between…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 Kai Ikuta , Kosuke Namekata , Yuta Notsu , Hiroyuki Maehara , Soshi Okamoto , Satoshi Honda , Daisaku Nogami , Kazunari Shibata

M giants are among the longest-period pulsating stars which is why their studies were traditionally restricted to analyses of low-precision visual observations, and more recently, accurate ground-based data. Here we present an overview of M…

We present a variability analysis of the early-release first quarter of data publicly released by the Kepler project. Using the stellar parameters from the Kepler Input Catalog, we have separated the sample into 129,000 dwarfs and 17,000…

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

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