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In the study of stellar flares, traditional method of calculating total energy emitted in the continuum assumes the emission originating from a narrow chromospheric condensation region with a constant temperature of 10000 K and variable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-15 K. Bicz , R. Falewicz , P. Heinzel , P. Preś , D. Moździerski , A. Pigulski , D. Marchev , K. Kotysz , T. Atanasova , G. Yordanova , A. Georgiev

In this paper, we study stellar light curves from the TESS satellite (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) for the presence of stellar flares. The main aim is to detect stellar flares using two-minutes cadence data and to perform…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Małgorzata Pietras , Robert Falewicz , Marek Siarkowski , Kamil Bicz , Paweł Preś

The habitability of planets is closely connected with the stellar activity, mainly the frequency of flares and the distribution of flare energy. Kepler and TESS find many flaring stars are detected via precise time-domain photometric data,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-19 Dong-Yang Gao , Hui-Gen Liu , Ming Yang , Ji-Lin Zhou

The statistical characteristic of stellar flares at optical bands has received an extensive study, but it remains to be studied at soft X-ray bands, in particular for solar-type stars. Here, we present a statistical study of soft X-ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-19 Zhanhao Zhao , Ziqian Hua , Xin Cheng , Zhiyuan Li , Mingde Ding

Superflares on solar-type stars has been a rapidly developing field ever since the launch of $\it Kepler$. Over the years, there have been several studies investigating the statistics of these explosive events. In this study, we present a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 Lauren Doyle , Gavin Ramsay , J. Gerard Doyle

We report the latest statistical analyses of superflares on solar-type (G-type main-sequence; effective temperature is 5100 - 6000 K) stars using all of the $Kepler$ primary mission data, and $Gaia$-DR2 (Data Release 2) catalog. We updated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-15 Soshi Okamoto , Yuta Notsu , Hiroyuki Maehara , Kosuke Namekata , Satoshi Honda , Kai Ikuta , Daisaku Nogami , Kazunari Shibata

Flares are short-lived but energetic manifestations of stellar activity. Studying them is crucial, as they emit intense high-energy radiation that can impact the circumstellar environment, especially the atmospheres of orbiting planets.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-22 G. Galletta , S. Colombo , L. Prisinzano , G. Micela

We analyze new observations of superflares on G-stars discovered in the optical and near IR ranges with the Kepler mission. An evolution of solar-type activity is discussed. We give an estimate of the maximal total energy, $E_{tot} =…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 M. M. Katsova , M. A. Livshits

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

Using a recent census of flare stars from the Kepler survey, we have explored how flare activity evolves across stellar main sequence lifetimes. We utilize a sample of 347 stars with robust flare activity detections, and which have rotation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 James R. A. Davenport , Kevin R. Covey , Riley W. Clarke , Austin C. Boeck , Jonathan Cornet , Suzanne L. Hawley

All-sky photometric time-series missions have allowed for the monitoring of thousands of young ($t_{\rm age} < 800$Myr) to understand the evolution of stellar activity. Here we developed a convolutional neural network (CNN),…

Superflares, as strong explosions on stars, have been well studied with the progress of space time-domain astronomy. In this work, we present the study of superflares on solar-type stars using Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-19 Zuo-Lin Tu , Ming Yang , Z. J. Zhang , F. Y. Wang

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

Superflares may provide the dominant source of biologically relevant UV radiation to rocky habitable zone M-dwarf planets (M-Earths), altering planetary atmospheres and conditions for surface life. The combined line and continuum flare…

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

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 present the first derivation of a stellar flare temperature profile from single-band photometry. Stellar flare DWF030225.574-545707.45129 was detected in 2015 by the Dark Energy Camera as part of the Deeper, Wider, Faster Programme. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-08 Riley Clarke , Federica Bianco , James R. A. Davenport , Jeffery Cooke , Sara Webb , Igor Andreoni , Tyler Pritchard , Aaron Roodman

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

Stellar flares occasionally present a $\textit{peak-bump}$ light curve morphology, consisting of an initial impulsive phase followed by a gradual late phase. Analyzing this specific morphology can uncover the underlying physics of stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-21 Denise G. Yudovich , Kai E. Yang , Xudong Sun

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
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