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We present the results of a search for stellar flares in the first data release from the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS). We have found 610 flares from 339 stars, with spectral types between F8 and M6, the majority of which belong to…

Sunspots and solar flares are two different manifestations of magnetic activity on the surface of the Sun. On the Sun, flares typically occur close to spots. In this paper we test this the connection between spots and flares on other stars.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-02 Andy B. Zhang , Jason R. Reeves , David V. Martin , Veronica Pratt , Wata Tubthong , Arielle Weinstein , Isabella E. Ward

Stellar superflares are energetic outbursts of electromagnetic radiation, similar to solar flares but releasing more energy, up to $10^{36}$ erg on main sequence stars. It is unknown whether the Sun can generate superflares, and if so, how…

We wrote and used an automated flare detection Python script to search for super-flares on main-sequence stars of types A, F, G, K, and M in Kepler's long-cadence data from Q0 to Q17. We studied the statistical properties of the occurrence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-08 A. K. Althukair , D. Tsiklauri

We present the results of a search for white light flares on the ~23,000 cool dwarfs in the Kepler Quarter 1 long cadence data. We have identified 373 flaring stars, some of which flare multiple times during the observation period. We…

The presence and strength of a stellar magnetic field and activity is rooted in a star's fundamental parameters such as mass and age. Can flares serve as an accurate stellar "clock"? To explore if we can quantify an activity-age relation in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Ekaterina Ilin , Sarah J. Schmidt , James R. A. Davenport , Klaus G. Strassmeier

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 the results of a search for stellar flares from stars neighbouring the target sources in the Kepler short cadence data. These flares have been discarded as contaminants in previous surveys and therefore provide an unexplored…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 James A. G. Jackman , Evgenya Shkolnik , R. O. Parke Loyd

We analyze physical characteristics of late-type stars wherein the Kepler mission registered superflares. We use the revised stellar fundamental parameters, i.e. effective temperatures Teff and surface gravitational accelerations log g,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-27 M. M. Katsova , B. A. Nizamov

Solar-type stars have been observed to flare at optical wavelengths to energies much higher than observed for the Sun. To date, no counterparts have been observed at longer wavelengths. We have searched the the VLA Sky Survey (VLASS) for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-28 Ivey Davis , Gregg Hallinan , Carlos Ayala , Dillon Dong , Steven Myers

We analyzed the light curves of 1376 early-to-late, nearby M dwarfs to search for white-light flares using photometry from the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN). We identified 480 M dwarfs with at least one potential flare…

Solar and stellar flares are powerful events which produce intense radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum. Multiwavelength observations are highly important for understanding the nature of flares, because different flare-related…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Alexey A. Kuznetsov , Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov

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

Stellar flares 100-10^7 times more energetic than the most powerful solar flares have been detected from 9 normal F and G main sequence stars (Schaefer, King & Deliyannis 2000). Although these stars are not in close binary systems, their…

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The analysis of the light curves of 48 B-type stars observed by Kepler is presented. Among these are 15 pulsating stars, all of which show low frequencies characteristic of SPB stars. Seven of these stars also show a few weak, isolated high…

Flares from the Sun and other stars are most prominently observed in the soft X-ray band. Most of the radiated energy, however, is released at optical/UV wavelengths. In spite of decades of investigation, the physics of flares is not fully…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 E. Flaccomio , G. Micela , S. Sciortino , A. M. Cody , M. G. Guarcello , M. Morales-Calderòn , L. Rebull , J. R. Stauffer

Superflares are flares that release total energy 10$\sim$10$^{4}$ times greater than that of the biggest solar flares with energy of $\sim$10$^{32}$ erg. We searched superflares on solar-type stars (G-type main sequence stars) using the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-04 Yuta Notsu , Hiroyuki Maehara , Takuya Shibayama , Satoshi Honda , Shota Notsu , Kosuke Namekata , Daisaku Nogami , Kazunari Shibata

We analyzed Kepler short-cadence M dwarf observations. Spectra from the ARC 3.5m telescope identify magnetically active (H$\alpha$ in emission) stars. The active stars are of mid-M spectral type, have numerous flares, and well-defined…

Flares from magnetically active dwarf stars should produce relativistic particles capable of creating gamma-rays. So far, the only isolated main sequence star besides the Sun to have been detected in gamma-rays is TVLM 513-46546. Detecting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-27 Yuzhe Song , Timothy A. D. Paglione , Ekaterina Ilin