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AU Mic is a young ($\sim$24 Myr), pre-Main Sequence M~dwarf star that was observed in the first month of science observations of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and re-observed two years later. This target has photometric…

Flares and CMEs are known to be the dominating high-energy phenomena on cool stars. Superflares were thoroughly investigated using broadband photometry predominantly from Kepler, K2, and TESS. Here we present a spectroscopic investigation…

M dwarfs are the most common type of star in the solar neighborhood, and many exhibit frequent and highly energetic flares. To better understand these events across the electromagnetic spectrum, a campaign observed AU Mic (dM1e) over 7 days…

AU Mic is a young, active star whose transiting planet was recently detected. We report our analysis of its TESS data, where we modeled the BY Draconis type quasi-periodic rotational modulation by starspots simultaneously to the flaring…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 E. Martioli , G. Hébrard , A. C. M. Correia , J. Laskar , A. Lecavelier des Etangs

In this work, 1272 superflares on 311 stars are collected from 22,539 solar-type stars from the second-year observation of Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which almost covered the northern hemisphere of the sky. Three…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Zuo-Lin Tu , Ming Yang , H. -F. Wang , F. Y. Wang

We investigate the flare-frequency distributions of 5 M-dwarfs that experienced superflares with energies in excess of $10^{33}$ erg detected by ASAS-SN. We use K2 and TESS short-cadence observations along with archival ASAS-SN data to…

High energy X-ray and ultraviolet (UV) radiation from young stars impacts planetary atmospheric chemistry and mass loss. The active $\sim 22$ Myr M dwarf AU Mic hosts two exoplanets orbiting interior to its debris disk. Therefore, this…

Planets that closely orbit magnetically active stars are thought to be able to interact with their magnetic fields in a way that modulates stellar activity. This modulation in phase with the planetary orbit, such as enhanced X-ray activity,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 Ekaterina Ilin , Katja Poppenhäger

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

Flares and CMEs are very powerful events in which energetic radiation and particles are ejected within a short time. These events thus can strongly affect planets that orbit these stars. This is particularly relevant for planets of M-stars,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 Priscilla Muheki , Eike W Guenther , Tom Mutabazi , Edward Jurua

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

We report the results of a high temporal resolution spectroscopic monitoring of the flare star AD Leo. During 4 nights, more than 600 spectra were taken in the optical range using the Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) and the Intermediate…

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

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

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 present the X-ray quiescent and flaring properties from a unique, 7-day multiwavelength observing campaign on the M1 flare star AU Mic. Combining the XMM-Newton X-ray spectra with the chromospheric line and broadband NUV and optical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Yuta Notsu , Isaiah I. Tristan , Rachel A. Osten , Alexander Brown , Adam F. Kowalski , Carol A. Grady

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…

HD 189733 is an exoplanetary system consisting of a transiting hot Jupiter and an active K2V-type main sequence star. We aim to use VLT/UVES high resolution echelle spectra to study a stellar flare. We have performed simultaneous analyses…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 T. Klocova , S. Czesla , S. Khalafinejad , U. Wolter , J. H. M. M. Schmitt

The near-ultraviolet (NUV) spectral region is a useful diagnostic for stellar flare physics and assessing the energy environment of young exoplanets, especially as relates to prebiotic chemistry. We conducted a pilot NUV spectroscopic flare…

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
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