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The most abundant stars in the Galaxy, M dwarfs, are very commonly hosts to diverse systems of low-mass planets. Their abundancy implies that the general occurrence rate of planets is dominated by their occurrence rate around such M dwarfs.…

We present the results of a campaign to monitor active M dwarfs using infrared spectroscopy, supplemented with optical photometry and spectroscopy. We detected 16 flares during nearly 50 hours of observations on EV Lac, AD Leo, YZ CMi, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Sarah J. Schmidt , Adam F. Kowalski , Suzanne L. Hawley , Eric J. Hilton , John P. Wisniewski , Benjamin M. Tofflemire

Stellar white-light flares are believed to play an essential role on the physical and chemical properties of the atmosphere of the surrounding exoplanets. Here we report an optical monitoring campaign on the nearby flaring system EI~Cnc…

Most flares on the Sun occur at random, but there is a small percentage of "sympathetic flaring" -- the triggering of one flare by another. Previously there had been no widespread confirmation of sympathetic flares on other stars. In this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-25 Veronica Pratt , Jason R. Reeves , David V. Martin , Andy B. Zhang , Andrew Korkus , S. Edelman

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

The flare-associated stellar coronal mass ejection (CME) in solar-like and late type stars is quite essential for the habitability of an exoplanet. In this paper, we report detection of flare-associated CMEs in two M-dwarfs, thanks to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-11 J. Wang , L. P. Xin , H. L. Li , G. W. Li , S. S. Sun , C. Gao , X. H. Han , Z. G. Dai , E. W. Liang , X. Y. Wang , J. Y. Wei

M Dwarfs make up the majority of stars, offering an avenue for discovering exoplanets due to their smaller sizes. However, their magnetic activity poses challenges for exoplanet detection, characterization, and planetary habitability.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-14 Aylin Garcia Soto , Girish M. Duvvuri , Elisabeth R. Newton , Ward S. Howard , Alejandro Núñez , Stephanie T. Douglas

The young active flare star AU~Mic is the planet host star with the highest flare rate from TESS data. Therefore, it represents an ideal target for dedicated ground-based monitoring campaigns with the aim to characterize its numerous flares…

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…

We conducted photometric and spectroscopic observations for Ross 15 in order to further study the flare properties of this less observed flare star. A total of 28 B-band flares are detected in 128 hours of photometric observations, leading…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-10 Jian-Ying Bai , Ali Esamdin , Xing Gao , Yan Yan , Juan-Juan Ren

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 search for superflares from 4,068 cool stars in 2+ years of Evryscope photometry, focusing on those with high-cadence data from both Evryscope and TESS. The Evryscope array of small telescopes observed 575 flares from 284 stars, with a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Ward S. Howard , Hank Corbett , Nicholas M. Law , Jeffrey K. Ratzloff , Amy L. Glazier , Octavi Fors , Daniel del Ser , Joshua Haislip

We present an analysis of flares in mid-to-late M dwarfs in the MEarth photometric survey. We search 3985155 observations across 2226 stars, and detect 54 large ($\Delta m \geq 0.018$) flares in total, distributed across 34 stars. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 Nicholas Mondrik , Elisabeth Newton , David Charbonneau. Jonathan Irwin

\textit{Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer} Deep Survey observations of cool stars (spectral type F to M) have been used to investigate the distribution of coronal flare rates in energy and its relation to activity indicators and rotation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Marc Audard , Manuel Guedel , Jeremy J. Drake , Vinay L. Kashyap

Teegarden's star is a late-type M-dwarf planet host, typically showing only rather low levels of activity. In this paper we present an extensive characterisation of this activity at photospheric, chromospheric, and coronal levels. We…

Solar CMEs and flares have a statistically well defined relation, with more energetic X-ray flares corresponding to faster and more massive CMEs. How this relation extends to more magnetically active stars is a subject of open research.…

According to recent observations relative number of flare stars does not change very much from cool dwarfs to hot A stars. Flare energies are strongly correlated with stellar luminosity and radius. Whence it follows that the typical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-25 Alexei Struminsky , Andrei Sadovski

Low-mass stars show evidence of vigorous magnetic activity in the form of large flares and coronal mass ejections. Such space weather events may have important ramifications for the habitability and observational fingerprints of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-19 Howard Chen , Zhuchang Zhan , Allison Youngblood , Eric T. Wolf , Adina D. Feinstein , Daniel E. Horton

As more exoplanets are being discovered around ultracool dwarfs, understanding their magnetic activity -- and the implications for habitability -- is of prime importance. To find stellar flares and photometric signatures related to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Bálint Seli , Krisztián Vida , Attila Moór , András Pál , Katalin Oláh

Aims. We explore the outer Galactic disc up to a Galactocentric distance of 30 kpc to derive its parameters and measure the magnitude of its flare. Methods. We obtained the 3D density of stars of type F8V-G5V with a colour selection from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-09-05 M. Lopez-Corredoira , J. Molgo