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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…

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We analyze TESS data to explore stellar flares and rotational characteristics in members of Nearby Young Moving Groups (NYMGs). Our study focuses on 417 members of NYMGs aged 10-150 Myr. Using detrended light curves from the TESS Science…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-17 Andrew Tran , Inseok Song

We apply multi-algorithm machine learning models to TESS 2-minute survey data from Sectors 1-72 to identify stellar flares. Models trained with Deep Neural Network, Random Forest, and XGBoost algorithms, respectively, utilized four flare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-24 Chia-Lung Lin , Daniel Apai , Mark S. Giampapa , Wing-Huen Ip

We perform a study of stellar flares for the 24,809 stars observed with 2 minute cadence during the first two months of the TESS mission. Flares may erode exoplanets' atmospheres and impact their habitability, but might also trigger the…

Using a recent census of flare stars from the Kepler survey, we have explored how flare activity evolves across stellar main sequence lifetimes. We utilize a sample of 347 stars with robust flare activity detections, and which have rotation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 James R. A. Davenport , Kevin R. Covey , Riley W. Clarke , Austin C. Boeck , Jonathan Cornet , Suzanne L. Hawley

In this paper, we study stellar light curves from the TESS satellite (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) for the presence of stellar flares. The main aim is to detect stellar flares using two-minutes cadence data and to perform…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Małgorzata Pietras , Robert Falewicz , Marek Siarkowski , Kamil Bicz , Paweł Preś

Ultraviolet flare emission can drive photochemistry in exoplanet atmospheres and even serve as the primary source of uncertainty in atmospheric retrievals. Additionally, flare energy budgets are not well-understood due to a paucity of…

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

We present the results of a search for stellar flares in the first data release from the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS). We have found 610 flares from 339 stars, with spectral types between F8 and M6, the majority of which belong to…

Stellar flares are abundant in space photometric light curves. As they are now available in large enough numbers, the statistical study of their overall temporal morphology is timely. We use light curves from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-12 Bálint Seli , Krisztián Vida , Katalin Oláh , Anna Görgei , Szabolcs Soós , András Pál , Levente Kriskovics , Zsolt Kővári

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

We present a study of the relationship between galactic kinematics, flare rates, chromospheric activity, and rotation periods for a volume-complete, nearly all-sky sample of 219 single stars within 15 parsecs and with masses between…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Amber A. Medina , Jennifer G. Winters , Jonathan M. Irwin , David Charbonneau

The habitability of planets is closely connected with the stellar activity, mainly the frequency of flares and the distribution of flare energy. Kepler and TESS find many flaring stars are detected via precise time-domain photometric data,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-19 Dong-Yang Gao , Hui-Gen Liu , Ming Yang , Ji-Lin Zhou

The demographics of young exoplanets can shed light onto their formation and evolution processes. Exoplanet properties are derived from the properties of their host stars. As such, it is important to accurately characterize the host stars…

Detailed studies of the Sun have shown that sunspots and solar flares are closely correlated. Photometric data from Kepler/K2 has allowed similar studies to be carried out on other stars. Here, we utilise TESS photometric 2-min cadence of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 L. Doyle , G. Ramsay , J. G. Doyle , K. Wu

Flares, energetic eruptions on the surfaces of stars, are an unmistakable manifestation of magnetically driven emission. Their occurrence rates and energy distributions trace stellar characteristics such as mass and age. But before flares…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Ekaterina Ilin , Sarah J. Schmidt , Katja Poppenhäger , James R. A. Davenport , Martti H. Kristiansen , Mark Omohundro

In this work, six convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been trained based on %different feature images and arrays from the database including 15,638 superflare candidates on solar-type stars, which are collected from the three-years…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-19 Zuo-Lin Tu , Qin Wu , Wenbo Wang , G. Q. Zhang , Zi-Ke Liu , F. Y. Wang

Photometric space missions like Kepler and TESS continuously discover new exoplanets and advance the search for a second habitable world. The light curves recorded by these telescopes also reveal signs of magnetic activity, such as star…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-16 Mirjam Bogner , Beate Stelzer , Stefanie Raetz

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

We present a study of flare rates, rotation periods, and spectroscopic activity indicators of 125 single stars within 15 parsecs and with masses between 0.1$-$0.3 $M_\odot$ observed during the first year of the TESS mission, with the goal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Amber A. Medina , Jennifer G. Winters , Jonathan M. Irwin , David Charbonneau
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