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We present two main results, based on the models and the statistical analyses of 1672 U-band flares. We also discuss the behaviours of the white-light flares. In addition, the parameters of the flares detected from two years of observations…

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We present high cadence detections of two superflares from a bright G8 star (V = 11.56) with the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS). We improve upon previous superflare detections by resolving the flare rise and peak, allowing us to fit…

Solar white-light flares (WLFs) have been observed since 1859, but their occurrence rate is not yet fully understood. The physical properties of WLFs in super active regions (SARs) are also well worth investigating. With full-disk images at…

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Dark magnetic spots crossing the stellar disc lead to quasi-periodic brightness variations, which allow us to constrain stellar surface rotation and photometric activity. The current work is the second of this series (Santos et al. 2019;…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-31 A. R. G. Santos , S. N. Breton , S. Mathur , R. A. García

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

In the study of stellar flares, traditional method of calculating total energy emitted in the continuum assumes the emission originating from a narrow chromospheric condensation region with a constant temperature of 10000 K and variable…

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We present an analysis of flares in mid-to-late M dwarfs in the MEarth photometric survey. We search 3985155 observations across 2226 stars, and detect 54 large ($\Delta m \geq 0.018$) flares in total, distributed across 34 stars. We…

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We present an updated catalog of 113 X-ray flares detected by Swift in the ~33% of the X-ray afterglows of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB). 43 flares have a measured redshift. For the first time the analysis is performed in 4 different X-ray energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 G. Chincarini , J. Mao , R. Margutti , M. G. Bernardini , C. Guidorzi , F. Pasotti , D. Giannios , M. Della Valle , A. Moretti , P. Romano , P. D'Avanzo , G. Cusumano , P. Giommi

We report and characterize a white-light superflare on a previously undiscovered M dwarf detected by the ASAS-SN survey. Employing various color-magnitude and color-spectral type relationships, we estimate several stellar parameters,…

Flares are known to play an important role for the evolution of the atmospheres of young planets. In order to understand the evolution of planets, it is thus important to study the flare-activity of young stars. This is particularly the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 E. W. Guenther , D. Woeckel , P. Chaturvedi , V. Kumar , M. K. Srivastava , P. Muheki

Starspots and flares are indicators of stellar magnetic activity that can both be studied in greater detail by utilizing the long-term, space-based archive of the Kepler satellite. Here, we aim to investigate a subset of the Kepler archive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 Rachael M. Roettenbacher , Krisztián Vida

The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) is the only project in existence to scan the entire sky in optical light every $\sim$day, reaching a depth of $g\sim18$ mag. Over the course of its first four years of transient alerts…

On 2017-09-20 we observed GJ 4334, an M5V dwarf rotating with a period of 23.5 days, simultaneously with both the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph aboard Hubble (1160 -- 1710 Angstroms) and the Dual Imaging Spectrograph mounted on the…

We present a variability analysis of the early-release first quarter of data publicly released by the Kepler project. Using the stellar parameters from the Kepler Input Catalog, we have separated the sample into 129,000 dwarfs and 17,000…

We present a detailed analysis of a superflare on the active M dwarf star AD Leonis. The event presents a rare case of a stellar flare observed simultaneously in X-rays (with XMM-Newton) and in optical (with the Transiting Exoplanet Survey…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 B. Stelzer , M. Caramazza , St. Raetz , C. Argiroffi , M. Coffaro

KIC 7341653 is one of several late-type M dwarfs observed in the main mission of Kepler with peculiar infrared colors placing them in the domain of suspected young stellar objects (YSO). It is likely associated with a powerful X-ray emitter…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 Valeri V. Makarov , Alexey Goldin

The spot evolution on the Sun and solar-type stars is important for understanding the nature of consequential flaring activity. This study statistically investigates the variance of flare occurrence rate through the time evolution of spots…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-23 Takato Tokuno , Kosuke Namekata , Hiroyuki Maehara , Shin Toriumi

M-type stars are prime targets for exoplanet searches within their habitable zones (HZs). These stars also exhibit significant magnetic flaring activity, particularly during their first billion years, which can potentially accelerate the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-15 Andrea Caldiroli , Francesco Haardt , Elena Gallo , George King , Juliette Becker , Federico Biassoni , Riccardo Spinelli

TRAPPIST-1 is an ultra-cool dwarf that flares frequently. These flares shape the surrounding planets' high-energy irradiation environments, with consequences for atmospheric chemistry and escape, and they can contaminate transmission…

Solar flares are often accompanied by filament/prominence eruptions ($\sim10^{4}$ K and $\sim 10^{10-11}$ cm$^{-3}$), sometimes leading to coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that directly affect the Earth's environment. `Superflares' are found…