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Stellar activity is ubiquitously encountered in M dwarfs and often characterised by the H$\alpha$ line. In the most active M dwarfs, H$\alpha$ is found in emission, sometimes with a complex line profile. Previous studies have reported…

In this study, new observations and some results of statistical analyses are presented. The largest flare data set of DO Cep in the literature has been obtained with 89 flares detected in 67.61 hours of U-band flare patrol. First of all,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-28 H. A. Dal

Several studies have documented periodic and quasi-periodic signals from the time series of dMe flare stars and other stellar sources. Such periodic signals, observed within quiescent phases (i.e., devoid of larger-scale microflare or flare…

We develop a new and powerful method to analyze time series to rigorously detect flares in the presence of an irregularly oscillatory baseline, and apply it to stellar light curves observed with TESS. First, we remove the underlying…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Qiyuan Wang , Giovanni Motta , Genaro Sucarrat , Vinay L. Kashyap

M giants are among the longest-period pulsating stars which is why their studies were traditionally restricted to analyses of low-precision visual observations, and more recently, accurate ground-based data. Here we present an overview of M…

We conducted high dispersion spectroscopic observations of 50 superflare stars with Subaru/HDS. These 50 stars were selected from the solar-type superflare stars that we had discovered from the Kepler data. More than half (34 stars) of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-09 Yuta Notsu , Satoshi Honda , Hiroyuki Maehara , Shota Notsu , Takuya Shibayama , Daisaku Nogami , Kazunari Shibata

(abridged) We study the hypothesis that observed X-ray/extreme ultraviolet emission from coronae of magnetically active stars is entirely (or to a large part) due to the superposition of flares, using an analytic approach to determine the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Arzner , M. Guedel

Whether the Sun is an ordinary G-type star is still an open scientific question. Stellar surveys by Kepler and TESS, however, revealed that Sun-like stars tend to show much stronger flare activity than the Sun. This study aims to reassess…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-07 Konstantin Herbst , Eliana M. Amazo-Gómez , Athanasios Papaioannou

Context: Active M dwarfs frequently exhibit large flares, which can pose an existential threat to the habitability of any planet in orbit in addition to making said planets more difficult to detect. M dwarfs do not lose angular momentum as…

The statistical characteristic of stellar flares at optical bands has received an extensive study, but it remains to be studied at soft X-ray bands, in particular for solar-type stars. Here, we present a statistical study of soft X-ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-19 Zhanhao Zhao , Ziqian Hua , Xin Cheng , Zhiyuan Li , Mingde Ding

Flares are intense explosions on the solar and stellar surfaces, and solar flares are sometimes accompanied by filament or prominence eruptions. Recently, a large filament eruption associated with a superflare on a solar-type star EK Dra…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-10 Kai Ikuta , Kazunari Shibata

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…

We study the decay phase of solar flares in several spectral bands using a method based on that successfully applied to white light flares observed on an M4 dwarf. We selected and processed 102 events detected in the Sun-as-a-star flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-10 Larisa K. Kashapova , Anne-Marie Broomhall , Alena I. Larionova , Elena G. Kupriyanova , Ilya D. Motyk

The routinely flaring events from \sgras\ trace dynamic, high-energy processes in the immediate vicinity of the supermassive black hole. We statistically study temporal and spectral properties, as well as fluence and duration distributions,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-20 Qiang Yuan , Q. Daniel Wang , Siming Liu , Kinwah Wu

Superflares may provide the dominant source of biologically relevant UV radiation to rocky habitable zone M-dwarf planets (M-Earths), altering planetary atmospheres and conditions for surface life. The combined line and continuum flare…

The Kepler Spacecraft has discovered a large number of planets up to one-year periods and down to terrestrial sizes. While the majority of the target stars are main-sequence dwarfs of spectral type F, G, and K, Kepler covers stars with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-13 Gijs D. Mulders , Ilaria Pascucci , Daniel Apai

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

We have searched the Kepler light curves of ~3900 M-star targets for evidence of periodicities that indicate, by means of the effects of starspots, rapid stellar rotation. Several analysis techniques, including Fourier transforms,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 S. Rappaport , J. Swift , A. Levine , M. Joss , R. Sanchis-Ojeda , T. Barclay , M. Still , G. Handler , K. Oláh , P. S. Muirhead , D. Huber , K. Vida

The nature of quasi-periodic pulsations in solar flares is poorly constrained, and critically the general prevalence of such signals in solar flares is unknown. Therefore, we perform a large-scale search for evidence of signals consistent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-28 A. R. Inglis , J. Ireland , B. R. Dennis , L. A. Hayes , P. T. Gallagher