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Tsinghua University-Ma Huateng Telescopes for Survey (TMTS) aims to detect fast-evolving transients in the Universe, which has led to the discovery of thousands of short-period variables and eclipsing binaries since 2020. In this paper, we…

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

Solar radio emission at low frequencies (<1 GHz) can provide valuable information on processes driving flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Radio emission has been detected from active M dwarf stars, suggestive of much higher levels of…

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…

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

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

Although more than 5000 TESS Objects of Interest have been cataloged, no comprehensive survey of the flare rates of their host stars exists. We perform the first flare survey of all 2250 non-retired TOIs with 2 min cadence light curves to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Ward S. Howard

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

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

We present the results of a search for stellar flares from stars neighbouring the target sources in the Kepler short cadence data. These flares have been discarded as contaminants in previous surveys and therefore provide an unexplored…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 James A. G. Jackman , Evgenya Shkolnik , R. O. Parke Loyd

We analyzed Kepler short-cadence M dwarf observations. Spectra from the ARC 3.5m telescope identify magnetically active (H$\alpha$ in emission) stars. The active stars are of mid-M spectral type, have numerous flares, and well-defined…

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

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

In this work, 1272 superflares on 311 stars are collected from 22,539 solar-type stars from the second-year observation of Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which almost covered the northern hemisphere of the sky. Three…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Zuo-Lin Tu , Ming Yang , H. -F. Wang , F. Y. Wang

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

We present an overview of K2 short cadence observations for 34 M dwarfs observed in Campaigns 1 - 9 which have spectral types between M0 - L1. All of the stars in our sample showed flares with the most energetic reaching $3\times10^{34}$…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 Lauren Doyle , Gavin Ramsay , John G. Doyle

Flare flux reflect contribution from active regions rather than the whole hemisphere of a star. Unlike the amplitude of light-curves caused by starspots, the flare detection is independent of inclination. The two valuable properties of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-04 Huiqin Yang , Shuai Liu , Yang Huang , Bowen Zhang , Jifeng Liu

We have identified 63 flares on M dwarfs from the individual component spectra in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey using a novel measurement of emission line strength called the Flare Line Index. Each of the ~38,000 M dwarfs in the SDSS low…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Eric J. Hilton , Andrew A. West , Suzanne L. Hawley , Adam F. Kowalski

(Abridged) We investigate the EUV and X-ray flare rate distribution in radiated energy of the late-type active star AD Leo using long EUVE and BeppoSAX observations. We compare the observed light curves with light curves synthesized from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Manuel Guedel , Marc Audard , Vinay L. Kashyap , Jeremy J. Drake , Edward F. Guinan

All stars produce explosive surface events such as flares and coronal mass ejections. These events are driven by the release of energy stored in coronal magnetic fields, generated by the stellar dynamo. However, it remains unclear if the…