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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…

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Time-domain surveys have advanced astronomical research by revealing diverse variable phenomena, from stellar flares to transient events. The scale and complexity of survey data, along with the demand for rapid classification, present…

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The light curves of solar-type stars present both periodic fluctuation and flare spikes. The gradual periodic fluctuation is interpreted as the rotational modulation of magnetic features on the stellar surface and is used to deduce magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-15 Han He , Huaning Wang , Mei Zhang , Ahmad Mehrabi , Yan Yan , Duo Yun

Low-mass stars belonging to the M spectral type are the most numerous stars in our Galaxy, amounting to about two-thirds in number, and are found at the bottom of the main sequence in the H-R diagram. %Multi-wavelength studies on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-17 Samrat Ghosh , Soumen Mondal , Santosh Joshi , Sneh Lata , Rajib Kumbhakar

The TESS mission delivers time-series photometry for millions of stars across the sky, offering a probe into stellar astrophysics, including rotation, on a population scale. However, light curve systematics related to the satellite's…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-12 Zachary R. Claytor , Jennifer L. van Saders , Lyra Cao , Marc H. Pinsonneault , Johanna Teske , Rachael L. Beaton

The energy in the solar acoustic spectrum is known to be correlated with flares, but it is not known if the same is true for stellar flares? In order to answer this question, we have analyzed 73 flares in 39 solar-like stars. These flares…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 C. Karoff

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…

A homogeneous search for stellar flares has been performed using every available Kepler light curve. An iterative light curve de-trending approach was used to filter out both astrophysical and systematic variability to detect flares. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-28 James R. A. Davenport

Time-resolved databases with large spatial coverage are quickly becoming a standard tool for all types of astronomical studies. We report preliminary results from our search for stellar flares in the 2MASS calibration fields. A sample of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 James R. A. Davenport , Andrew C. Becker , Suzanne L. Hawley , Adam F. Kowalski , Branimir Sesar , Roc M. Cutri

We describe the construction of a highly reliable sample of approximately 7,000 optically faint periodic variable stars with light curves obtained by the asteroid survey LINEAR across 10,000 sq.deg of northern sky. Majority of these…

We present $I$-band time-series photometric variability studies of three known nearby ($\sim$ 140 pc) and young ( $\sim$ 1 Myr) brown dwarfs (BD) in the Taurus star-forming region in the Perseus Molecular Cloud. From 10 nights of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-28 Samrat Ghosh , Soumen Mondal , Somnath Dutta , Rajib Kumbhakar , Ramkrishna Das , Santosh Joshi , Sneh Lata

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

We present results of a Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) search for short-period pulsations in compact stellar objects observed in years 1 and 3 of the TESS mission, during which the southern ecliptic hemisphere was targeted. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-11 A. S. Baran , V. Van Grootel , R. H. Ostensen , H. L. Worters , S. K. Sahoo , S. Sanjayan , S. Charpinet , P. Nemeth , J. H. Telting , D. Kilkenny

More than 3000 exoplanets have been detected so far, and more and more spectroscopic observations of exoplanets are performed. Future instruments are eagerly awaited as they will be able to provide spectroscopic data with a greater accuracy…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Olivia Venot , Marco Rocchetto , Shaun Carl , Aysha Hashim , Leen Decin

In previous works we have developed a method to convert solar X-ray data, collected with the Yohkoh/SXT, into templates of stellar coronal observations. Here we apply the method to several solar flares, for comparison with stellar X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 F. Reale , G. Peres , S. Orlando

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

Aims. With the aim to reveal the effects of the magnetic field to the multi-band activity of dwarf stars, we search for associated radio emission for an extensive list of 14 915 brown dwarfs and 15 124 flaring stars. Methods. We utilised…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-30 K. Perger , B. Seli , K. Vida

We have analyzed the optical light curves of the blazar OJ 287 obtained with the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) over about 80 days from 2021 October 13 to December 31, with an unprecedented sampling of 2 minutes. Although…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-07 Shubham Kishore , Alok C. Gupta , Paul J. Wiita

In order to explore how the ubiquitous stochastic low-frequency (SLF) variability of O-type stars is related to various stellar characteristics, we compiled a sample of 150 O-type stars observed via ground-based spectroscopic surveys,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-22 Dong-Xiang Shen , Chun-Hua Zhu , Guo-Liang Lv , Xi-zhen Lu , Xiao-long He

The X-ray light curves of pre-main sequence stars can show variability in the form of flares altering a baseline characteristic activity level; the largest X-ray flares are characterized by a rapid rise to more than 10 times the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Jacqueline McCleary , Scott Wolk