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Stellar flares with ${10^2-10^7}$ times more energy than the largest solar flare have been detected from 9 normal F and G main sequence stars (Schaefer, King & Deliyannis 1999). These superflares have durations of hours to days and are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eric P. Rubenstein , Bradley E. Schaefer

An investigation of the G-type stellar population with Kepler (as done by Maehara et al.) shows that less than 1 per cent of those stars show superflares. Due to the large pixel scale of Kepler ($\sim4 arcsec \: px^{-1}$), it is still not…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-13 M. Kitze , R. Neuhäuser , V. Hambaryan , C. Ginski

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

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

Solar flares strongly affect the Sun's atmosphere as well as the Earth's environment. Quantifying the maximum possible energy of solar flares of the present-day Sun, if any, is thus a key question in heliophysics. The largest solar flares…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 G. Aulanier , P. Demoulin , C. J. Schrijver , M. Janvier , E. Pariat , B. Schmieder

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 report the latest view of Kepler solar-type (G-type main-sequence) superflare stars, including recent updates with Apache Point Observatory (APO) 3.5m telescope spectroscopic observations and Gaia-DR2 data. First, we newly conducted…

We searched for superflares on solar-type stars using the Kepler short-cadence (1-min sampling) data in order to detect superflares with short duration. We found 187 superflares on 23 solar-type stars whose bolometric energy ranges from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 Hiroyuki Maehara , Takuya Shibayama , Yuta Notsu , Shota Notsu , Satoshi Honda , Daisaku Nogami , Kazunari Shibata

We present a flare catalog of the {\it Kepler} mission using the long-cadence data of Data Release 25. This catalog comprises 3420 flare stars and 162,262 flare events. A comparison shows that the flare catalogs of previous studies are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Huiqin Yang , Jifeng Liu

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

Over the past years, thousands of stellar flares have been detected by harvesting data from large photometric surveys. These detections, however, do not account for potential sources of contamination such as background stars appearing in…

We analyzed the occurrence rates of flares on stars of spectral types K, G, F, and A, observed by Kepler. We found that the histogram of occurrence frequencies of stellar flares is systematically shifted towards a high-energy tail for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 M. Svanda , M. Karlicky

Flare occurrence on the Sun is highly variable, exhibiting both short term variation due to the emergence and evolution of active regions, and long-term variation from the solar cycle. On solar-like stars, much larger stellar flares…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-04 James Crowley , Michael S. Wheatland , Kai Yang

Short duration flares are well known to occur on cool main-sequence stars as well as on many types of `exotic' stars. Ordinary main-sequence stars are usually pictured as being static on time scales of millions or billions of years. Our sun…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Bradley E. Schaefer , Jeremy R. King , Constantine P. Deliyannis

We analyze new observations of superflares on G-stars discovered in the optical and near IR ranges with the Kepler mission. An evolution of solar-type activity is discussed. We give an estimate of the maximal total energy, $E_{tot} =…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 M. M. Katsova , M. A. Livshits

Recent data on superflares on sun-like stars and radiocarbon data on solar activity in the past are both indicative of transient epochs of unusually high magnetic activity. We propose an explanation for the grand activity maxima in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-05 L. L. Kitchatinov , S. V. Olemskoy

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…

On the basis of the 30-year ago ground-based photometry and the recent Kepler space experiment there have been considered frequencies of occurrence and energetics of the solar-type stellar flares. It was concluded that frequencies of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-04 R. E. Gershberg

In this review, we discuss whether the present solar dynamo models can be extrapolated to explain various aspects of stellar activity. We begin with a summary of the following kinds of data for solar-like stars: (i) data pertaining to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-09 Arnab Rai Choudhuri

Young solar-type stars frequently produce superflares, serving as a unique window into the young Sun-Earth environments. Large solar flares are closely linked to coronal mass ejections (CMEs) associated with filament/prominence eruptions,…