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Solar flares result in an increase of the solar irradiance at all wavelengths. While the distribution of the flare fluence observed in coronal emission has been widely studied and found to scale as f(E) ~ E^{-\alpha}, with \alpha slightly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-08 M. Kretzschmar

Flares are intense explosions on the solar and stellar surfaces, and solar flares are sometimes accompanied by filament or prominence eruptions. Recently, a large filament eruption associated with a superflare on a solar-type star EK Dra…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-10 Kai Ikuta , Kazunari Shibata

We investigate the evolution of differential emission measure distribution (DEM[T]) in various phases of a B8.3 flare, which occurred on July 04, 2009. We analyze the soft X-ray (SXR) emission in 1.6-8.0 keV range, recorded collectively by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Arun Kumar Awasthi , Barbara Sylwester , Janusz Sylwester , Rajmal Jain

It has long been understood that the light curve of a transiting planet constrains the density of its host star. That fact is routinely used to improve measurements of the stellar surface gravity and has been argued to be an independent…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-31 Jason D. Eastman , Hannah Diamond-Lowe , Jamie Tayar

The determination of stellar effective temperature ($T_{\mathrm{eff}}$) in F, G, and K stars using H$\alpha$ profile fitting is a quite remarkable and powerful tool, because it practically does not depend on other atmospheric parameters and…

The near-ultraviolet and optical (white-light) continuum radiation in M dwarf flares exhibits a range of observed characteristics, suggesting that the amount of heating at large optical depth varies among impulsive-type and gradual-type…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 Adam F. Kowalski , Mihalis Mathioudakis , Suzanne L. Hawley

Stellar flares of active M dwarfs can affect the atmospheric composition of close-orbiting gas giants, and can result in time-dependent transmission spectra. We aim to examine the impact of a variety of flares, differing in energy,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-02 Thomas Konings , Robin Baeyens , Leen Decin

The effect of enhanced UV irradiation associated with stellar flares on the atmospheric composition and temperature of gas giant exoplanets was investigated. This was done using a 1D radiative-convective-chemical model with self-consistent…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-21 Harrison Nicholls , Eric Hébrard , Olivia Venot , Benjamin Drummond , Elise Evans

Solar flares are explosive releases of magnetic energy stored in the solar corona, driven by magnetic reconnection. These events accelerate electrons, generating hard X-ray emissions and often display Quasi Periodic Pulsations (QPPs) across…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-25 Luiz A. C. A. Schiavo , Natasha L. S. Jeffrey , Gert J. J. Botha , James A. McLaughlin

While solar flares are primarily associated with enhanced ultraviolet and X-ray emission, a subset of flares exhibit significant continuum brightening in visible light and are classified as white-light flares (WLFs). Despite extensive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-01 Samuel Granovsky , Alexander G. Kosovichev , Irina N. Kitiashvili , Alan A. Wray

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…

Stellar variability is a limiting factor for planet detection and characterization, particularly around active M-type stars. Here we revisit one of the most active stars from the Kepler mission, the M4 star GJ 1243, and use a sample of 414…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-13 Guadalupe Tovar Mendoza , James R. A. Davenport , Eric Agol , James A. G. Jackman , Suzanne L. Hawley

The TeV blazar PKS 2155-304 was monitored with the X-ray satellite ASCA in 1994 May, as part of a multiwavelength campaign from the radio to X-ray bands. At the beginning of the two-day continuous observation, we detected a large flare,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Kataoka , T. Takahashi , F. Makino , S. Inoue , G. M. Madejski , M. Tashiro , C. M. Urry , H. Kubo

Temporally-resolved electron density measurements of solar flare plasmas are presented using data from the EUV Variability Experiment (EVE) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The EVE spectral range contains emission lines formed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Ryan O. Milligan , Michael B. Kennedy , Mihalis Mathioudakis , Francis P. Keenan

Since the discovery of stellar superflares by Kepler satellite, these extremely energetic events have been studied in analogy to solar flares. Their white-light (WL) continuum emission has been interpreted as being produced by heated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Petr Heinzel , Kazunari Shibata

We characterize the magnetic activity of M dwarfs to provide the planet community with information on the energy input from the star; in particular, in addition to the frequency of optical flares directly observed with TESS, we aim at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 B. Stelzer , M. Bogner , E. Magaudda , St. Raetz

The 'standard solar' flare model collects all physical ingredients identified by multi-wavelength observations of our Sun: magnetic reconnection, fast particle acceleration and the resulting emission at various wavelengths, especially in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-24 Wenzhi Ruan , Chun Xia , Rony Keppens

We present photometric and spectroscopic analyses of gravity (g-mode) long-period pulsating hot subdwarf B (sdB) stars. We perform a detailed asteroseismic and spectroscopic analysis of five pulsating sdB stars observed with {\it TESS}…

We combine results from interferometry, asteroseismology and spectroscopic analyses to determine accurate fundamental parameters (mass, radius and effective temperature) of 10 bright solar-type stars covering the H-R diagram from spectral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 H. Bruntt

Non-thermal and thermal parameters of 85 solar flares of GOES class B1 to M6 (background subtracted classes A1 to M6) have been compared to each other. The hard X-ray flux has been measured by RHESSI and a spectral fitting provided flux and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Marina Battaglia , Paolo C. Grigis , Arnold O. Benz