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Optical flares have been observed from magnetically active stars for many decades; unsurprisingly, the spectra and temporal evolution are complicated. For example, the shortcomings of optically thin, static slab models have long been…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-23 Adam F. Kowalski , Joel C. Allred , Mats Carlsson

Motivated by relativistic jets observed in active galactic nuclei (AGN), we simulate outflows of electron-positron pairs strongly coupled with photons from normal electron-proton plasmas. Using multi-fluid approximation and a Monte Carlo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Katsuaki Asano , Fumio Takahara

We study the spectral and temporal behavior of X-ray flares from the active M-dwarf EV Lac in 200 ks of exposure with the Chandra/HETGS. We derive flare parameters by fitting an empirical function which characterizes the amplitude, shape,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 David P. Huenemoerder , Norbert S. Schulz , Paola Testa , Jeremy J. Drake , Rachel A. Osten , Fabio Reale

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

Blazar jets are renowned for their rapid violent variability and multiwavelength flares, however, the physical processes responsible for these flares are not well understood. In this paper we develop a time-dependent inhomogeneous fluid jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-06 William J. Potter

Highly luminous rapid flares are characteristic of processes around compact objects like white dwarfs, neutron stars or black holes. In the high energy regime of X- and gamma-rays, outbursts with variability time-scales of seconds and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 A. Stefanescu , G. Kanbach , A. Słowikowska , J. Greiner , S. McBreen , G. Sala

T Tauri stars are known to be magnetically active stars subject to strong flares observed in X-rays. These flares are likely due to intense magnetic reconnection events during which a part of the stored magnetic energy is converted into…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-26 Valentin Brunn , Christian Rab , Alexandre Marcowith , Christophe Sauty , Marco Padovani , Chadi Meskini

Gradual crustal deformation can generate strongly twisted magnetic fields around magnetars, potentially triggering giant flares with total energies exceeding $10^{44}\,\mathrm{erg}$. In this Letter, we present the first relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-23 Koushik Chatterjee , Alexander Philippov , Andrei M. Beloborodov , Kyle Parfrey , Bart Ripperda , Elias R. Most

High energy ($> 250$ keV) emission has been detected persisting for several tens of seconds after the initial spike of magnetar giant flares. It has been conjectured that this emission might arise via inverse Compton scattering in a highly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-11 C. Elenbaas , D. Huppenkothen , C. Omand , A. L. Watts , E. Bissaldi , I. Caiazzo , J. Heyl

In this paper we explore an evolutionary Unified scenario involving super massive black hole and starburst with outflow, that seems capable of explaining most of the observational properties of at least part of AGNs. Our suggestion is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Sebastian Lipari , Roberto Terlevich

Symbiotic Binaries contain a white dwarf accreting material from a red giant star through a wind. We present the results of a search for outbursts from Symbiotic Binaries using photometric data obtained using the GOTO all-sky survey taken…

The community agrees that Type Ia supernovae arise from Carbon/Oxygen white dwarfs undergoing thermonuclear runaway. However, the full progenitor system and the process that prompts the white dwarf to explode remain unknown. Most current…

X-ray spectra in the range $1.5-8.5$~keV have been analyzed for 526 large flares detected with the Solar Assembly for X-rays (SAX) on the Mercury {\em MESSENGER} spacecraft between 2007 and 2013. For each flare, the temperature and emission…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 B. R. Dennis , K. J. H. Phillips , R. A. Schwartz , A. K. Tolbert , R. D. Starr , L. R. Nittler

We report optical CCD photometry of the recently identified symbiotic star EF Aql. Our observations in Johnson V and B bands clearly show the presence of stochastic light variations with an amplitude of about 0.2 mag on a time scale of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-06 R. K. Zamanov , S. Boeva , Y. M. Nikolov , B. Petrov , R. Bachev , G. Y. Latev , V. A. Popov , K. A. Stoyanov , M. F. Bode , J. Marti , T. Tomov , A. Antonova

Solar flares are one of the main forces behind space weather events. However the mechanism that drives such energetic phenomena is not fully understood. The standard eruptive flare model predicts that magnetic reconnection occurs high in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 S. Imada , K. Aoki , H. Hara , T. Watanabe , L. K. Harra , T. Shimizu

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

We present here results of numerical calculations demonstrating that the very long periodic variability detected in the Cataclysmic Variable FS Aur can be the result of eccentricity modulation of a close binary (CB) orbit induced by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-30 G. Tovmassian , S. Zharikov , C. Chavez , L. Aguilar , J. Tomsick , V. Hambaryan , V. Neustroev

Context. Stellar flares can significantly influence the atmospheres and habitability of orbiting exoplanets, especially around young and active M dwarfs. Understanding the temporally and spectrally resolved activity of such stars is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 E. Mamonova , A. F. Kowalski , K. Herbst , S. Wedemeyer , S. C. Werner

Most active galactic nuclei at the center of the nearby galaxies have super-massive black holes accreting at sub-Eddington rates through hot accretion flows or radiatively inefficient accretion flows, which efficiently produce jets. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-27 Gunjan Tomar , Nayantara Gupta

M dwarf stars are known for their vigorous flaring. This flaring could impact the climate of orbiting planets, making it important to characterize M dwarf flares at the short wavelengths that drive atmospheric chemistry and escape. We…