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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

The statistical characteristic of stellar flares at optical bands has received an extensive study, but it remains to be studied at soft X-ray bands, in particular for solar-type stars. Here, we present a statistical study of soft X-ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-19 Zhanhao Zhao , Ziqian Hua , Xin Cheng , Zhiyuan Li , Mingde Ding

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

Flares we observe on stars in white light, UV or soft X-rays are probably harbingers of coronal mass ejections (CMEs). If we use the Sun as a guide, large stellar flares will dissipate two orders of magnitude less X-ray radiative energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-18 Jeremy J. Drake , Ofer Cohen , Cecilia Garraffo , Vinay Kashyap

Galactic cosmic rays are energetic particles important in the context of life. Many works have investigated the propagation of Galactic cosmic rays through the Sun's heliosphere. However, the cosmic ray fluxes in M dwarf systems are still…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-09 A. L. Mesquita , D. Rodgers-Lee , A. A. Vidotto

M dwarfs produce explosive flare emission in the near-UV and optical continuum, and the mechanism responsible for this phenomenon is not well-understood. We present a near-UV/optical flare spectrum from the rise phase of a secondary flare,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Adam F. Kowalski , Suzanne L. Hawley , Jon A. Holtzman , John P. Wisniewski , Eric J. Hilton

M-dwarf stars are generally considered favourable for rocky planet detection. However, such planets may be subject to extreme conditions due to possible high stellar activity. The goal of this work is to determine the potential effect of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-23 F. Tabataba-Vakili , J. L. Grenfell , J. -M. Grießmeier , H. Rauer

Stellar flares are critical phenomena on stellar surfaces, which are closely tied to stellar magnetism. While extensively studied in main-sequence (MS) stars, their occurrence in evolved compact stars, specifically hot subdwarfs and white…

M dwarfs are magnetically active stars that frequently produce flares, which have implications for both stellar evolution and exoplanet studies. Flare occurrence rates and activity levels of M dwarfs correlate with stellar characteristics…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-20 Benjamin K. Capistrant , Jason Dittmann

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

Magnetic fields dominate most solar activities, there exist direct relations between solar flare and the distributions of magnetic field, and also its corresponding magnetic energy. In this paper, the statistical results about the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-03 Suo Liu

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

Cosmic rays can penetrate planetary atmospheres driving the formation of prebiotic molecules, which are important for the origin of life. We calculate the Galactic cosmic ray fluxes in the habitable zone of five nearby, well-studied…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 D. Rodgers-Lee , A. A. Vidotto , A. L. Mesquita

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

Strong, stable, and organised magnetic fields are present at the surfaces of a small fraction of OBA stars. These "fossil fields" exhibit uniform characteristics in stars over a tremendous range of stellar mass, age, temperature, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-29 G. A. Wade , C. Neiner

Solar flare observations are used to demonstrate the new technique of abundance determination based on gamma ray line emission produced by accelerated particle bombardment. Some of the implications of similar gamma ray line emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Reuven Ramaty

Stellar flares are characterized by sudden enhancement of electromagnetic radiation in stellar atmospheres. So far much of our understanding of stellar flares comes from photometric observations, from which plasma motions in flare regions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-13 Yuchuan Wu , Hechao Chen , Hui Tian , Liyun Zhang , Jianrong Shi , Han He , Hongpeng Lu , Yu Xu , Haifeng Wang

Solar flares are often accompanied by filament/prominence eruptions, sometimes leading to coronal mass ejections (CMEs). By analogy, we expect that stellar flares are also associated with stellar CMEs whose properties are essential to know…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-11 Kosuke Namekata , Hiroyuki Maehara , Satoshi Honda , Yuta Notsu , Daisaku Nogami , Kazunari Shibata

Massive stars are crucial building blocks of galaxies and the universe, as production sites of heavy elements and as stirring agents and energy providers through stellar winds and supernovae. The field of magnetic massive stars has seen…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Rolf Walder , Doris Folini , Georges Meynet

M dwarfs are known to flare on timescales from minutes to hours, with flux increases of several magnitudes in the blue/near-UV. These frequent, powerful events, which are caused by magnetic reconnection, will have a strong observational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Eric J. Hilton , Suzanne L. Hawley , Adam F. Kowalski , Jon Holtzman