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We report the latest statistical analyses of superflares on solar-type (G-type main-sequence; effective temperature is 5100 - 6000 K) stars using all of the $Kepler$ primary mission data, and $Gaia$-DR2 (Data Release 2) catalog. We updated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-15 Soshi Okamoto , Yuta Notsu , Hiroyuki Maehara , Kosuke Namekata , Satoshi Honda , Kai Ikuta , Daisaku Nogami , Kazunari Shibata

White-light flares (WLFs) are usually tend to be those very large flares. Nevertheless, several small and compact WLFs have been reported and thought to be produced by low-height magnetic reconnection. However, whether low-height magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-24 Yongliang Song

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

We analyze the correlation between starspots and superflares on solar-type stars using observations from the Kepler mission. The analysis shows that the observed fraction of stars with superflares decreases as the rotation period increases…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 Hiroyuki Maehara , Yuta Notsu , Shota Notsu , Kosuke Namekata , Satoshi Honda , Takako T. Ishii , Daisaku Nogami , Kazunari Shibata

In this work, 1272 superflares on 311 stars are collected from 22,539 solar-type stars from the second-year observation of Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which almost covered the northern hemisphere of the sky. Three…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Zuo-Lin Tu , Ming Yang , H. -F. Wang , F. Y. Wang

Solar white-light flares (WLFs) are those accompanied by brightenings in the optical continuum or integrated light. The White-light Solar Telescope (WST), as an instrument of the Lyman-alpha Solar Telescope (LST) on the Advanced Space-based…

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

A statistical study of the correlation between hard X-ray and white light emission in solar flares is performed in order to search for a link between flare-accelerated electrons and white light formation. We analyze 43 flares spanning GOES…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Matej Kuhar , Säm Krucker , Juan Carlos Martínez Oliveros , Marina Battaglia , Lucia Kleint , Diego Casadei , Hugh S. Hudson

Solar energetic particles (SEPs), including protons and heavy ions, are believed to be accelerated either by CME shock or by magnetic reconnection. The latter also produces solar flares, in which the white light flares (WLFs) are among the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-16 Nengyi Huang , Yan Xu , Haimin Wang

Solar flares are observed and classified according to their intensity measured with the GOES X-ray Sensors. We show that the duration of a flare, as measured by the full width at half maximum (FWHM) in GOES is not related to the size of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Jeffrey W. Reep , Kalman J. Knizhnik

Since the discovery of stellar superflares by Kepler satellite, these extremely energetic events have been studied in analogy to solar flares. Their white-light (WL) continuum emission has been interpreted as being produced by heated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Petr Heinzel , Kazunari Shibata

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

White-light (WL) flares have been observed and studied more than a century since the first discovery. However, some fundamental physics behind the brilliant emission remains highly controversial. One of the important facts in addressing the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Nengyi Huang , Yan Xu , Haimin Wang

We attempt to understand the white-light flare (WLF) that was observed on 2012 March 9 with a newly constructed multi-wavelength solar telescope called the Optical and Near-infrared Solar Eruption Tracer (ONSET). We analyzed WLF…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-09 Q. Hao , Y. Guo , Y. Dai , M. D. Ding , Z. Li , X. Y. Zhang , C. Fang

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…

Young solar-type stars are known to show frequent "superflares", which may severely influence the habitable worlds on young planets via intense radiations and coronal mass ejections. Here we report an optical spectroscopic and photometric…

The distribution of interval times between recurrent discrete events, such as Solar and stellar flares, reflects their underlying dynamics. Log-normal functions provide good fits to the interval time distributions of many recurrent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-07 J. I. Katz , M. Bharmal , M. Ju , N. Whitsett

White-light flares are magnetically driven localized brightenings on the surfaces of stars. Their temporal, spectral, and statistical properties present a treasury of physical information about stellar magnetic fields. The spatial…

Using observations by the Solar Dynamics Observatory from June 2010 to December 2017, we have performed the first statistical investigation of circular-ribbon flares (CFs) and examined the white-light emission in these CFs. We find 90 CFs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 Yongliang Song , Hui Tian

To understand the conditions that produce white-light (WL) enhancements in solar flares, a statistical analysis of visible continuum data as observed by Hinode/Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) was performed. In this study, approximately 100…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Kyoko Watanabe , Jun Kitagawa , Satoshi Masuda