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Studies of the rotation and activity of M type stars are essential to enhance our understanding of stellar dynamos and angular momentum evolution. Using the outstanding photometric capabilities of space telescopes rotation signals even with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-17 St. Raetz , B. Stelzer

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

Taking into account results obtained from models and from statistical analyses of obtained parameters, we discuss flare activity levels and flare characteristics of five UV Ceti stars. We present the parameters of unpublished flares…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-27 H. A. Dal , S. Evren

Context. M dwarfs are key targets for terrestrial exoplanet studies, with prospects for atmospheric spectroscopy. However, strong stellar magnetic activity and frequent flaring require modelling efforts to assess their impact on planetary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-11 E. Mamonova , K. Herbst , V. Kofman , O. Ozgurel , A. F. Kowalski , S. Wedemeyer , S. C. Werner

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

Solar and stellar flares are powerful events which produce intense radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum. Multiwavelength observations are highly important for understanding the nature of flares, because different flare-related…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Alexey A. Kuznetsov , Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov

We analyze the light curve of the M5.5 dwarf Proxima Centauri obtained by the TESS in Sectors 11 and 12. In the $\approx 50$ day-long light curve we identified and analyzed 72 flare events. The flare rate was 1.49 events per day, in total,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Krisztián Vida , Katalin Oláh , Zsolt Kővári , Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi , Attila Moór , András Pál

Flares and CMEs can have deleterious effects on their surroundings: they can erode atmospheres of orbiting planets over time and also have high importance in stellar evolution. Most of the CME detections in the literature are single events…

We searched for superflares on solar-type stars using the Kepler short-cadence (1-min sampling) data in order to detect superflares with short duration. We found 187 superflares on 23 solar-type stars whose bolometric energy ranges from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 Hiroyuki Maehara , Takuya Shibayama , Yuta Notsu , Shota Notsu , Satoshi Honda , Daisaku Nogami , Kazunari Shibata

Superflares are flares that release total energy 10$\sim$10$^{4}$ times greater than that of the biggest solar flares with energy of $\sim$10$^{32}$ erg. We searched superflares on solar-type stars (G-type main sequence stars) using the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-04 Yuta Notsu , Hiroyuki Maehara , Takuya Shibayama , Satoshi Honda , Shota Notsu , Kosuke Namekata , Daisaku Nogami , Kazunari Shibata

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

We present a study of the variation timescales of the chromospheric activity indicator H$\alpha$ on a sample of 13 fully-convective, active mid-to-late M stars with masses between 0.1--0.3 solar masses. Our goal was to determine the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-13 Amber A. Medina , David Charbonneau , Jennifer G. Winters , Jonathan Irwin , Jessica Mink

Phased flaring, or the periodic occurrence of stellar flares, may probe electromagnetic star-planet interaction (SPI), binary interaction, or magnetic conditions in spots. For the first time, we explore flare periodograms for a large sample…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 Ward S. Howard , Nicholas M. Law

We analyze physical characteristics of late-type stars wherein the Kepler mission registered superflares. We use the revised stellar fundamental parameters, i.e. effective temperatures Teff and surface gravitational accelerations log g,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-27 M. M. Katsova , B. A. Nizamov

We present results from the volume-complete spectroscopic survey of 0.1-0.3M$_\odot$ M dwarfs within 15pc. This work discusses the active sample without close binary companions, providing a comprehensive picture of these 123 stars with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Emily K Pass , Jennifer G Winters , David Charbonneau , Jonathan M Irwin , Amber A Medina

We searched for superflares on solar-type stars using Kepler data with 1 min sampling in order to detect superflares with short duration. We found 187 superflares on 23 solar-type stars whose bolometric energy ranges from the order of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-11 Hiroyuki Maehara , Takuya Shibayama , Yuta Notsu , Shota Notsu , Satoshi Honda , Daisaku Nogami , Kazunari Shibata

Solar-type stars exhibit their highest levels of magnetic activity during their early convective pre-main sequence (PMS) phase of evolution. The most powerful PMS flares, super-flares and mega-flares, have peak X-ray luminosities of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-04 Konstantin V. Getman , Eric D. Feigelson

Flares from the Sun and other stars are most prominently observed in the soft X-ray band. Most of the radiated energy, however, is released at optical/UV wavelengths. In spite of decades of investigation, the physics of flares is not fully…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 E. Flaccomio , G. Micela , S. Sciortino , A. M. Cody , M. G. Guarcello , M. Morales-Calderòn , L. Rebull , J. R. Stauffer

Starspots and stellar flares are indicators of stellar magnetic activity.The magnetic energy stored around spots is thought to be the origin of flares, but the connection is not completely understood. To investigate the relation between…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 Kai Ikuta , Kosuke Namekata , Yuta Notsu , Hiroyuki Maehara , Soshi Okamoto , Satoshi Honda , Daisaku Nogami , Kazunari Shibata

About 22000 Kepler stars and nearly 60000 TESS stars from sectors 1-24 have been classified according to variability type. A large proportion of stars of all spectral types appear to have periods consistent with the expected rotation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-17 L. A. Balona