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We present new analyses of ALMA 12-m and ACA observations at 233 GHz (1.3 mm) of the Proxima Centauri system with sensitivities of 9.5 and 47 $\mu$Jy beam$^{-1}$, respectively, taken from 2017 January 21 through 2017 April 25. These…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Meredith A. MacGregor , Alycia J. Weinberger , David J. Wilner , Adam F. Kowalski , Steven R. Cranmer

Proxima Centauri (Cen) has been the subject of many flaring studies due to its proximity and potential to host habitable planets. The discovery of millimeter flares from this M dwarf with ALMA has opened a new window into the flaring…

We present millimeter, optical, and soft X-ray observations of a stellar flare with an energy squarely in the regime of typical X1 solar flares. The flare was observed from Proxima Cen on 2019 May 6 as part of a larger multi-wavelength…

We report on two millimeter flares detected by ALMA at 220 GHz from AU Mic, a nearby M dwarf. The larger flare had a duration of only $\sim35$ sec, with peak $L_{R}=2\times10^{15}$ erg s$^{-1}$ Hz$^{-1}$, and lower limit on linear…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-30 Meredith A. MacGregor , Rachel A. Osten , A. Meredith Hughes

We report the observation on UT 2017.07.01 of an unusually powerful flare detected in near-infrared continuum photometry of Proxima Centauri. During a campaign monitoring the star for possible exoplanet transits, we identified an increase…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 John F. Kielkopf , Rhodes Hart , Bradley D. Carter , Stephen C. Marsden

We present a study of white light flares from the active M5.5 dwarf Proxima Centauri using the Canadian microsatellite MOST. Using 37.6 days of monitoring data from 2014 and 2015, we have detected 66 individual flare events, the largest…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 James R. A. Davenport , David M. Kipping , Dimitar Sasselov , Jaymie M. Matthews , Chris Cameron

Proxima b is a terrestrial-mass planet in the habitable-zone of Proxima Centauri. Proxima Centauri's high stellar activity however casts doubt on the habitability of Proxima b: sufficiently bright and frequent flares and any associated…

(Abridged) We report results from a comprehensive study of the nearby M dwarf Proxima Centauri with the XMM-Newton satellite. We find strongly variable coronal X-ray emission, with flares ranging over a factor of 100 in peak flux. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Guedel , M. Audard , F. Reale , S. L. Skinner , J. L. Linsky

We analyze the light curve of the M5.5 dwarf Proxima Centauri obtained by the TESS in Sectors 11 and 12. In the $\approx 50$ day-long light curve we identified and analyzed 72 flare events. The flare rate was 1.49 events per day, in total,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Krisztián Vida , Katalin Oláh , Zsolt Kővári , Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi , Attila Moór , András Pál

We report the detection of three large millimeter flaring events from the nearby Sun-like, $\epsilon$ Eridani, found in archival ALMA 12m and ACA observations at 1.33 mm taken from 2015 January 17-18 and 2016 October 24-November 23,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 Kiana Burton , Meredith A. MacGregor , Rachel A. Osten

We report simultaneous observations of the nearby flare star Proxima Centauri with VLT/UVES and XMM-Newton over three nights in March 2009. Our optical and X-ray observations cover the star's quiescent state, as well as its flaring activity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 B. Fuhrmeister , S. Lalitha , K. Poppenhaeger , N. Rudolf , C. Liefke , A. Reiners , J. H. M. M. Schmitt , J. -U. Ness

On April 23, 2014, the Swift satellite responded to a hard X-ray transient detected by its Burst Alert Telescope, which turned out to be a stellar flare from a nearby, young M dwarf binary DG~CVn. We utilize observations at X-ray, UV,…

Using the XMM-Newton X-ray observatory to monitor the nearest star to the Sun, Proxima Centauri, we recorded the weakest X-ray flares on a magnetically active star ever observed. Correlated X-ray and optical variability provide strong…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Manuel Guedel , Marc Audard , Stephen L. Skinner , Matthias I. Horvath

We recently announced the detection of an unknown submillimeter source in our ALMA observations of alpha Cen AB. The source was detected in two epochs, a strong detection at 445~GHz and one at lower significance at 343.5~GHz. After valuable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-18 R. Liseau , W. Vlemmings , E. O'Gorman , E. Bertone , M. Chavez , V. De la Luz

Studies of solar radio bursts play an important role in understanding the dynamics and acceleration processes behind solar space weather events, and the influence of solar magnetic activity on solar system planets. Similar low-frequency…

The (sub)millimeter radiation of solar flares is poorly understood. Without spatial resolution, it cannot be compared easily to flare emissions in other wavelengths. The Atacama Large Millimeter-submillimeter Array (ALMA) offers sufficient…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 I. Skokić , A. O. Benz , R. Brajša , D. Sudar , F. Matković , M. Bárta

BIMA observations of the Orion nebula discovered a giant flare from a young star previously undetected at millimeter wavelengths. The star briefly became the brightest compact object in the nebula at 86 GHz. Its flux density increased by…

We present results from the most comprehensive radio monitoring campaign towards the closest star to our Sun, Proxima Centauri. We report 1.1 to 3.1 GHz observations with the Australian Telescope Compact Array over 18 consecutive days in…

Temporal photometric variations at near infrared to submillimeter wavelengths have been found in low-mass young stellar objects. These phenomena are generally interpreted as accretion events of star-disk systems with varying accretion…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-15 Sheng-Yuan Liu , Yu-Nung Su , Igor Zinchenko , Kuo-Song Wang , Yuan Wang

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
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