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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

Tsinghua University-Ma Huateng Telescopes for Survey (TMTS) aims to detect fast-evolving transients in the Universe, which has led to the discovery of thousands of short-period variables and eclipsing binaries since 2020. In this paper, we…

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 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

Flare flux reflect contribution from active regions rather than the whole hemisphere of a star. Unlike the amplitude of light-curves caused by starspots, the flare detection is independent of inclination. The two valuable properties of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-04 Huiqin Yang , Shuai Liu , Yang Huang , Bowen Zhang , Jifeng Liu

We analyze the light curve of 1740 flare stars to study the relationship between the magnetic feature characteristics and the identified flare activity. Coverage and stability of magnetic features are inspired by rotational modulation of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Hadis Goodarzi , Ahmad Mehrabi , Habib khosroshahi , Han He

Stellar flares from K and M dwarfs release panchromatic radiation characterized by a significantly higher brightness temperature ($\sim$9-20 kK) than the star. The increased frequency of magnetic activity on young low-mass stars results in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-09 Jordan N. Ealy , Joshua E. Schlieder , Thaddeus D. Komacek , Emily A. Gilbert

According to recent observations relative number of flare stars does not change very much from cool dwarfs to hot A stars. Flare energies are strongly correlated with stellar luminosity and radius. Whence it follows that the typical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-25 Alexei Struminsky , Andrei Sadovski

The study is devoted to search for flare stars among confirmed members of Galactic open clusters using high-cadence photometry from {\it TESS} mission. We analyzed 957 high-cadence light curves of members from 136 open clusters. As a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-10 O. Maryeva , K. Bicz , C. Xia , M. Baratella , P. Čechvala , K. Vida

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

Stellar flares are powerful bursts of electromagnetic radiation triggered by magnetic reconnection in the chromosphere of stars, occurring frequently and intensely on active M dwarfs. While missions like TESS and Kepler have studied regular…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-16 J. Poyatos , O. Fors , J. M. Gómez Cama , I. Ribas

Quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) are oscillatory signatures commonly detected in the light curves of solar and stellar flares, offering valuable diagnostics of the underlying magnetic and plasma processes. This review compares the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Fabio Reale

Stellar variability is a limiting factor for planet detection and characterization, particularly around active M-type stars. Here we revisit one of the most active stars from the Kepler mission, the M4 star GJ 1243, and use a sample of 414…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-13 Guadalupe Tovar Mendoza , James R. A. Davenport , Eric Agol , James A. G. Jackman , Suzanne L. Hawley

The Kepler and TESS space missions significantly expanded our knowledge of what types of stars display flaring activity by recording a vast amount of super-flares from solar-like stars, as well as detecting flares from hotter stars of A-F…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-01 Olga Maryeva , Péter Németh , Sergey Karpov

We utilize the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search (SWEEPS) HST/ACS dataset for a Deep Rapid Archival Flare Transient Search (DRAFTS) to constrain the flare rate toward the older stellar population in the Galactic bulge.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Rachel A. Osten , Adam Kowalski , Kailash Sahu , Suzanne Hawley

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 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

We report on a new method for tracking the phases of the orbital modulations in very short-period, near-contact, and contact binary systems systems in order to follow starspots. We apply this technique to Kepler light curves for 414 binary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Bhaskaran Balaji , Bryce Croll , Alan M. Levine , Saul Rappaport

Quasi-periodic pulsations (or QPPs) are periodic intensity variations in the flare emission, across all wavelength bands. In this paper, we review the observational and modelling achievements since the previous review on this topic by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-12 Tom Van Doorsselaere , Elena G. Kupriyanova , Ding Yuan

Rapid rotation enhances the dynamo operating in stars, and thus also introducessignificantly stronger magnetic activity than is seen in slower rotators. Many young cool stars still have the rapid, primordial rotation rates induced by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 H. Korhonen