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M dwarfs are the most abundant stars in the Galaxy, and their low masses make them natural favourites for exoplanet radial-velocity (RV) searches. Nevertheless, these stars often demonstrate strong stellar activity that is yet to be fully…

Understanding the impact of active M-dwarf stars on the atmospheric equilibrium and surface conditions of a habitable zone Earth-like planet is key to assessing M dwarf planet habitability. Previous modeling of the impact of electromagnetic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 Matt A. Tilley , Antigona Segura , Victoria S. Meadows , Suzanne Hawley , James Davenport

MQ Dra is a strongly magnetic Cataclysmic Variable whose white dwarf accretes material from its secondary star through a stellar wind at a low rate. TESS observations were made of MQ Dra in four sectors in Cycle 2 and show a short duration,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Gavin Ramsay , Pasi Hakala , Matt Wood

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

Previous examinations of fully-convective M-dwarf stars have highlighted enhanced rates of nanoflare activity on these distant stellar sources. However, the specific role the convective boundary, which is believed to be present for spectral…

We present GALEX near ultraviolet (NUV:1750 - 2750A) and far ultraviolet (FUV: 1350 - 1750A) imaging observations of two 1.2 degree diameter fields in the Hyades and Pleiades open clusters in order to detect possible UV variability of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 S. E. Browne , B. Y. Welsh , J. M. Wheatley

Most of the stars in the Universe are M spectral class dwarfs, which are known to be the source of bright and frequent stellar flares. In this paper, we propose new approaches to discover M-dwarf flares in ground-based photometric surveys.…

We wrote and used an automated flare detection Python script to search for super-flares on main-sequence stars of types A, F, G, K, and M in Kepler's long-cadence data from Q0 to Q17. We studied the statistical properties of the occurrence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-08 A. K. Althukair , D. Tsiklauri

On 2017-09-20 we observed GJ 4334, an M5V dwarf rotating with a period of 23.5 days, simultaneously with both the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph aboard Hubble (1160 -- 1710 Angstroms) and the Dual Imaging Spectrograph mounted on the…

Exoplanets orbiting M dwarf stars are a prime target in the search for life in the Universe. M dwarf stars are active, with powerful flares that could adversely impact prospects for life, though there are counter-arguments. Here, we turn…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 William B. Sparks , Richard L. White , Roxana E. Lupu , Holland C. Ford

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…

With the aim of understanding how the magnetic properties of active regions (ARs) control the eruptive character of solar flares, we analyze 719 flares of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) class $\geq$C5.0 during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-01 Ting Li , Anqin Chen , Yijun Hou , Astrid M. Veronig , Shuhong Yang , Jun Zhang

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…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-18 Yuto Kajikiya , Kosuke Namekata , Yuta Notsu , Kai Ikuta , Hiroyuki Maehara , Bunei Sato , Daisaku Nogami

We demonstrate that for weak flares the dependence on spottedness can be rather weak. The fact is that such flares can occur both in small and large active regions. At the same time, powerful large flares of classes M and X occur much more…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 M. M. Katsova , V. N. Obridko , D. D. Sokoloff , I. M. Livshits

Variability is a common characteristic of magnetically active stars. Flaring variability is usually interpreted as the observable consequence of transient magnetic reconnection processes happening in the stellar outer atmosphere. Stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Rachel A. Osten

A gold standard for the study of M dwarfs is the eclipsing binary CM Draconis. It is rare because it is bright ($J_{\rm mag}=8.5$) and contains twin fully convective stars on an almost perfectly edge-on orbit. Both masses and radii were…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-12 David V. Martin , Ritika Sethi , Tayt Armitage , Gregory J. Gilbert , Romy Rodriguez Martinez , Emily A. Gilbert

Variations in stellar flux can potentially overwhelm the photometric signal of a transiting planet. Such variability has not previously been well-characterized in the ultraviolet lines used to probe the inflated atmospheres surrounding hot…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-26 R. O. Parke Loyd , Kevin France

Statistically analyzing Johnson UBVR observations of V1285 Aql during the three observing seasons, both activity level and behavior of the star are discussed in respect to obtained results. We also discuss the out-of-flare variation due to…

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

We aim to give a reliable estimate of the number of flaring giant stars in the Kepler field. By analyzing the flaring activity of these stars we explore their flare statistics and the released flare energies. The role of oscillation in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-10 K. Oláh , Zs. Kővári , M. N. Günther , K. Vida , P. Gaulme , B. Seli , A. Pál

We present detections of stellar flares of Wolf\,359, an M6.5 dwarf in the solar neighborhood (2.41~pc) known to be prone to flares due to surface magnetic activity. The observations were carried out from 2020 April 23 to 29 with a 1-m and…