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Aims. We investigate the effect of the electric return currents in solar flares on the profiles of hydrogen Balmer lines. We consider the monoenergetic approximation for the primary beam and runaway model of the neutralizing return current.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jiri Stepan , Jana Kasparova , Marian Karlicky , Petr Heinzel

The origin of the near-ultraviolet and optical continuum radiation in flares is critical for understanding particle acceleration and impulsive heating in stellar atmospheres. Radiative-hydrodynamic simulations in 1D have shown that high…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 Adam F. Kowalski , Joel C. Allred

Variability is a common characteristic of magnetically active stars. Flaring variability is usually interpreted as the observable consequence of transient magnetic reconnection processes happening in the stellar outer atmosphere. Stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Rachel A. Osten

Optical flares have been observed from magnetically active stars for many decades; unsurprisingly, the spectra and temporal evolution are complicated. For example, the shortcomings of optically thin, static slab models have long been…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-23 Adam F. Kowalski , Joel C. Allred , Mats Carlsson

In this talk, we discuss the formation of the near-ultraviolet and optical continuum emission in M dwarf flares through the formation of a dense, heated chromospheric condensation. Results are used from a recent radiative-hydrodynamic model…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 Adam F. Kowalski

White-light flares are explosive phenomena accompanied by brightening of continuum from near-ultraviolet to optical, which occur on the Sun and stars. In order to investigate the mechanism of white-light flares, we carried out simultaneous…

Stellar flares are energetic events occurring in stellar atmospheres. They have been observed on various stars using photometric light curves and spectra. On some cool stars, flares tend to release substantially more energy compared to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 Jiří Wollmann , Petr Heinzel , Petr Kabáth

We present a flare catalog of the {\it Kepler} mission using the long-cadence data of Data Release 25. This catalog comprises 3420 flare stars and 162,262 flare events. A comparison shows that the flare catalogs of previous studies are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Huiqin Yang , Jifeng Liu

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…

We report the discovery of hydrogen radio recombination line (RRL) emission from two galaxies with star formation rates (SFRs) similar to that of the Milky Way: M51 and NGC628. We use the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) to measure $\sim$15…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-11 Matteo Luisi , L. D. Anderson , T. M. Bania , Dana S. Balser , Trey V. Wenger , Amanda A. Kepley

Flares from M-dwarf stars can attain energies up to $10^4$ times larger than solar flares but are generally thought to result from similar processes of magnetic energy release and particle acceleration. Larger heating rates in the low…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-13 Adam F. Kowalski , Rachel A. Osten , Yuta Notsu , Isaiah I. Tristan , Antigona Segura , Hiroyuki Maehara , Kosuke Namekata , Shun Inoue

The Kepler and TESS space missions significantly expanded our knowledge of what types of stars display flaring activity by recording a vast amount of super-flares from solar-like stars, as well as detecting flares from hotter stars of A-F…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-01 Olga Maryeva , Péter Németh , Sergey Karpov

We present a new method for estimating the total energy radiated by stellar flares in broad-band continua, which assumes a constant emitting area but incorporates a time-dependent temperature evolution. This physically motivated approach…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-10 Petr Heinzel , Robert Falewicz , Kamil Bicz , Paweł Preś

The Hydrogen Balmer series is a basic radiative loss channel from the flaring solar chromosphere. We report here on the analysis of an extremely rare set of simultaneous observations of a solar flare in the H${\alpha}$ and H${\beta}$ lines…

Calculations of the emission spectrum of a homogeneous plane layer of pure hydrogen plasma taking into account nonlinear effects (the influence of bremsstrahlung and recombination radiation of the layer itself on its Menzel factors)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-24 E. S. Morchenko

Superflares on the solar type stars observed by \textit{Kepler} demonstrate the contrast in the optical continuum of the order 0.1--1 per cent. The mechanism of formation of this radiation is not firmly established. We consider a model…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-09 B. A. Nizamov

We present a novel observation of the white-light flare (WLF) continuum, which was significantly enhanced during the X1 flare on March 29, 2014 (SOL2014-03-29T17:48). Data from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) in its NUV…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Petr Heinzel , Lucia Kleint

The broadening of the hydrogen lines during flares is thought to result from increased charge (electron, proton) density in the flare chromosphere. However, disagreements between theory and modeling prescriptions have precluded an accurate…

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

Stellar variability is a limiting factor for planet detection and characterization, particularly around active M-type stars. Here we revisit one of the most active stars from the Kepler mission, the M4 star GJ 1243, and use a sample of 414…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-13 Guadalupe Tovar Mendoza , James R. A. Davenport , Eric Agol , James A. G. Jackman , Suzanne L. Hawley