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Understanding and characterising the magnetic activity of M dwarfs is of paramount importance in the search for Earth-like exoplanets orbiting them. Energetic stellar activity phenomena, such as flares or coronal mass ejections, which are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-31 P. Mas-Buitrago , J. -Y. Zhang , E. Solano , E. L. Martín

A sample of the LAMOST spectra of the early type M0-M3 dwarfs is compared with the Kepler observations. It is found that M dwarfs with strong chromospheric emission in $H_{\alpha}$ have large flare activity in general. The rotational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 H. -Y. Chang , Y. -H. Song , A. -L. Luo , L. -C. Huang , W. -H. Ip , J. -N. Fu , Y. Zhang , Y. -H. Hou , Z. -H Cao , Y. -F Wang

We aim to perform a statistical study of stellar flares observed by Kepler. We want to study the flare amplitude, duration, energy and occurrence rates, and how they are related to the spectral type and rotation period. To that end, we have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 Tom Van Doorsselaere , Hoda Shariati , Jonas Debosscher

We investigate the effect of stellar activity and flares on short-term radial velocity measurements in the mid-M flare star CN Leo. Radial velocity variations are calculated from 181 UVES spectra obtained during three nights. We searched…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ansgar Reiners

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

The relation between magnetic activity and rotation in late-type stars provides fundamental information on stellar dynamos and angular momentum evolution. Rotation/activity studies found in the literature suffer from inhomogeneity in the…

We use K2 short cadence data obtained over a duration of 50 days during Campaign 0 to observe two M1V dwarf stars, TYC 1330-879-1 and RXJ 0626+2349. We provide an overview of our data analysis, in particular, making a comparison between…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Gavin Ramsay , J. Gerry Doyle

Based on one-month long MMT time-series observations of the open cluster M37, we monitored light variations of nearly 2500 red dwarfs and successfully identified 420 flare events from 312 cluster M dwarf stars. For each flare light curve,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-16 S. -W. Chang , Y. -I. Byun , J. D. Hartman

The high-energy emission from low-mass stars is mediated by the magnetic dynamo. Although the mechanisms by which fully convective stars generate large-scale magnetic fields are not well understood, it is clear that, as for solar-type…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 Elisabeth R. Newton , Jonathan Irwin , David Charbonneau , Perry Berlind , Michael L. Calkins , Jessica Mink

Studies of the rotation and activity of M type stars are essential to enhance our understanding of stellar dynamos and angular momentum evolution. Using the outstanding photometric capabilities of space telescopes rotation signals even with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-17 St. Raetz , B. Stelzer

We present results from the volume-complete spectroscopic survey of 0.1-0.3M$_\odot$ M dwarfs within 15pc. This work discusses the active sample without close binary companions, providing a comprehensive picture of these 123 stars with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Emily K Pass , Jennifer G Winters , David Charbonneau , Jonathan M Irwin , Amber A Medina

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 investigate the flare-frequency distributions of 5 M-dwarfs that experienced superflares with energies in excess of $10^{33}$ erg detected by ASAS-SN. We use K2 and TESS short-cadence observations along with archival ASAS-SN data to…

Based on analysis of photometric observations of nearby M type stars obtained with ASAS, 31 periodic variables were detected. The determined periods are assumed to be related to rotation periods of the investigated stars. Among them 10 new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-16 M. Kiraga , K. Stepien

We have carried out a search for flares from the analysis of light curves for 12 active G, K, and M dwarfs. As sources of data we used ground-based observations in 2000-2020 from the photometric databases ASAS, SuperWASP, KWS. Events of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 N. I. Bondar' , M. M. Katsova , A. A. Shlyapnikov

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…

We make use of the largest and most homogeneous sample of white dwarf/M dwarf (WD/dM) binaries from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS DR7) to investigate relations between magnetic activity, rotation, magnetic braking and age in M stars.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 A. Rebassa-Mansergas , M. R. Schreiber , B. T. Gaensicke

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…

Context. M stars are preferred targets for studying terrestrial exoplanets, for which we hope to obtain their atmosphere spectra in the next decade. However, M dwarfs have long been known for strong magnetic activity and the ability to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-06 E. Mamonova , Y. Shan , A. F. Kowalski , S. Wedemeyer S. C. Werner

In the canonical theory of stellar magnetic dynamo, the tachocline in partially convective stars serves to arrange small-scale fields, generated by stochastic movement of plasma into a coherent large-scale field. Mid-to-late M-dwarfs, which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-02 Emily M. Boudreaux , Elisabeth R. Newton , Nicholas Mondrik , David Charbonneau , Jonathan Irwin