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M-dwarfs frequently produce flares, and their associated coronal mass ejections (CMEs) may threaten the habitability of close-in exoplanets. M-dwarf flares sometimes show prominence eruption signatures, observed as blue/red asymmetries in…

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The detection of transits is an efficient technique to uncover faint companions around stars. The full characterisation of the companions (M-type stars, brown dwarfs or exoplanets) requires high-resolution spectroscopy to measure properly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 J. Gallardo , D. Minniti , D. Valls-Gabaud , M. Rejkuba

Flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are important for the evolution of the atmospheres of planets and their potential habitability, particularly for planets orbiting M stars at a distance < 0.4 AU. Detections of CMEs on these stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Priscilla Muheki , Eike. W. Guenther , Tom Mutabazi , Edward Jurua

Stellar eruptive events, such as flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), can affect planetary habitability by disturbing the stability of their atmospheres. For instance, strong stellar flares and CMEs can trigger atmospheric escape and,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-03 Nuri Park , Evgenya L. Shkolnik , Joe Llama

TESS has proven to be a powerful resource for finding planets, including those that orbit the most prevalent stars in our galaxy: the M dwarfs. Identification of stellar companions (both bound and unbound) has become a standard component of…

According to activity-rotation relations, rapid rotators are expected to show high levels of magnetic activity. However, recent studies with TESS have found Ultra Fast Rotating (UFR) M dwarfs with periods $<1$ d displaying low levels of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 Lauren Doyle , George W. King , Gavin Ramsay , Lía R. Corrales , Stefano Bagnulo , J. Gerry Doyle , Pasi Hakala

We apply multi-algorithm machine learning models to TESS 2-minute survey data from Sectors 1-72 to identify stellar flares. Models trained with Deep Neural Network, Random Forest, and XGBoost algorithms, respectively, utilized four flare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-24 Chia-Lung Lin , Daniel Apai , Mark S. Giampapa , Wing-Huen Ip

Stellar flares are a frequent occurrence on young low-mass stars around which many detected exoplanets orbit. Flares are energetic, impulsive events, and their impact on exoplanetary atmospheres needs to be taken into account when…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 J. M. Chadney , T. T. Koskinen , M. Galand , Y. C. Unruh , J. Sanz-Forcada

Though free-floating planets (FFPs) may outpopulate their bound counterparts in the terrestrial-mass range, they remain one of the least explored exoplanet demographics. Due to their negligible electromagnetic emission at all wavelengths,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Michelle Kunimoto , William DeRocco , Nolan Smyth , Steve Bryson , B. Scott Gaudi

We utilize the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search (SWEEPS) HST/ACS dataset for a Deep Rapid Archival Flare Transient Search (DRAFTS) to constrain the flare rate toward the older stellar population in the Galactic bulge.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Rachel A. Osten , Adam Kowalski , Kailash Sahu , Suzanne Hawley

Context. Stellar flares can significantly influence the atmospheres and habitability of orbiting exoplanets, especially around young and active M dwarfs. Understanding the temporally and spectrally resolved activity of such stars is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 E. Mamonova , A. F. Kowalski , K. Herbst , S. Wedemeyer , S. C. Werner

Stellar flares are abundant in space photometric light curves. As they are now available in large enough numbers, the statistical study of their overall temporal morphology is timely. We use light curves from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-12 Bálint Seli , Krisztián Vida , Katalin Oláh , Anna Görgei , Szabolcs Soós , András Pál , Levente Kriskovics , Zsolt Kővári

Stellar flares are short-duration ($<$ hours) bursts of radiation associated with surface magnetic reconnection events. Stellar magnetic activity generally decreases as a function of both age and Rossby number, $R_0$, a measure of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-03 Adina D. Feinstein , Darryl Z. Seligman , Kevin France , Jonathan Gagné , Adam Kowalski

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 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

The habitability of planets around M dwarfs ($\lesssim 0.5 M_\odot$) can be affected by the XUV (X rays + extreme UV) emission of these stars, with flares occasionally increasing the XUV flux by more than 2 orders of magnitude above…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-22 Laura Neves Ribeiro do Amaral , Rory Barnes , Antígona Segura , Rodrigo Luger

Context. M stars are preferred targets for studying terrestrial exoplanets, for which we hope to obtain their atmosphere spectra in the next decade. However, M dwarfs have long been known for strong magnetic activity and the ability to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-06 E. Mamonova , Y. Shan , A. F. Kowalski , S. Wedemeyer S. C. Werner

We present the results of an observational campaign which obtained high time cadence, high precision, simultaneous optical and IR photometric observations of three M dwarf flare stars for 47 hours. The campaign was designed to characterize…

Stellar flares present challenges to the potential habitability of terrestrial planets orbiting M dwarf stars through inducing changes in the atmospheric composition and irradiating the planet's surface in large amounts of ultraviolet…