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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

The highly tangled magnetic field of a magnetar supports shear waves similar to Alfv\'en waves in an ordered magnetic field. Here we explore if torsional modes excited in the stellar interior and magnetosphere can explain the quasi-periodic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 Joseph Bretz , C. A. van Eysden , Bennett Link

Quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs), which carry time features and plasma characteristics of flare emissions, are frequently observed in light curves of solar/stellar flares. In this paper, we investigated non-stationary QPPs associated with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-23 Dong Li , Fanpeng Shi , Haisheng Zhao , Shaolin Xiong , Liming Song , Wenxi Peng , Xinqiao Li , Wei Chen , Zongjun Ning

Context. QPPs are usually detected as spatial displacements of coronal loops in imaging observations or as periodic shifts of line properties in spectroscopic observations. They are often applied for remote diagnostics of magnetic fields…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-26 D. Li , D. Yuan , Y. N. Su , Q. M. Zhang , W. Su , Z. J. Ning

We report quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) with double periods during three solar flares (viz. SOL2011-Feb-15T01:44, SOL2011-Sep-25T04:31, SOL2012-May-17T01:25). The flare QPPs were observed from light curves in Ly$\alpha$, hard X-ray (HXR)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Lei Lu , Dong Li , Zongjun Ning , Li Feng , Weiqun Gan

The Kepler mission identified huge flares on various stars including some of solar type. These events are substantially more energetic than solar flares, and so they are referred to as superflares. Even a small probability of such a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 M. M. Katsova , L. L. Kitchatinov , D. Moss , K. Olah , D. D. Sokoloff

Solar flares are the most powerful explosions occurring in the solar system, which may lead to disastrous space weather events and impact various aspects of our Earth. So far, it is still a big challenge in modern astrophysics to understand…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-28 Baolin Tan , Zhiqiang Yu , Jing Huang , Chengming Tan , Yin Zhang

Magnetic storms on stars manifest as remarkable, randomly occurring changes of the luminosity over durations that are tiny in comparison to the normal evolution of stars. These stellar flares are bursts of electromagnetic radiation from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-13 Adam F. Kowalski

The $\kappa$-mechanism has been successful in explaining the origin of observed oscillations of many types of "classical" pulsating variable stars. Here we examine quantitatively if that same process is prominent enough to excite the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-22 Ethan Dederick , Jason Jackiewicz

In strong stellar and solar flares flare loops typically appear during the decay phase, providing an additional contribution to the flare emission and, possibly, obscuring the flare emission. Super-flares, common in active, cool stars,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-06 Kamil Bicz , Robert Falewicz , Petr Heinzel , Małgorzata Pietras , Paweł Preś

Context. The Sun and solar-like stars undergo activity cycles for which the underlying mechanisms are not well understood. The oscillations of the Sun are known to vary with its activity cycle and these changes provide diagnostics on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 René Kiefer , Ariane Schad , Guy Davies , Markus Roth

Superflares, as strong explosions on stars, have been well studied with the progress of space time-domain astronomy. In this work, we present the study of superflares on solar-type stars using Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-19 Zuo-Lin Tu , Ming Yang , Z. J. Zhang , F. Y. Wang

We present an analysis of highly magnetized neutron stars "magnetars", in search for high frequency oscillations in the recurrent emission from the soft gamma repeater SGR 1806-20, and we discuss the physical interpretation of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-08-25 Ahmed M. El-Mezeini

Flares are powerful events ignited by a sudden release of magnetic energy. With the aim of studying flares in the 125-Myr-old stars in the Pleiades observed simultaneously in optical and X-ray light, we obtained new XMM-Newton observations…

Quasi-periodic pulsations (QPP) are usually found in the light curves of solar and stellar flares, they carry the features of time characteristics and plasma emission of the flaring core, and could be used to diagnose the coronas of the Sun…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Ding Yuan , Song Feng , Dong Li , Zhongjun Ning , Baolin Tan

Superflares on solar-type stars has been a rapidly developing field ever since the launch of $\it Kepler$. Over the years, there have been several studies investigating the statistics of these explosive events. In this study, we present a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 Lauren Doyle , Gavin Ramsay , J. Gerard Doyle

Quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) are a common feature of impulsive solar flare emissions, yet their driving mechanism(s) remain unresolved. We study long-period (3.4 min) QPPs in the M3.7 flare on Feb 24, 2023, using SDO/AIA and Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-05 Stefan Purkhart , Hannah Collier , Laura A. Hayes , Astrid M. Veronig , Miho Janvier , Säm Krucker

In our recent paper (Solar Physics 261, 233) we investigated quasi-periodic oscillations of hard X-rays during impulsive phase of solar flares. We have come to conclusion that they are caused by magnetosonic oscillations of magnetic traps…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 J. Jakimiec , M. Tomczak

There is evidence that coronal heating is highly intermittent, and flares are the high energy extreme. The properties of the heat pulses are difficult to constrain. Here hydrodynamic loop modeling shows that several large amplitude…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 F. Reale

Quasi-Periodic Oscillations (QPOs) have been observed during three powerful magnetar flares, from SGR0526-66, SGR1806-20 and SGR1900+14. These QPOs have been commonly interpreted as being driven by the mechanical modes of the magnetar's…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yuri Levin