Stellar flares

AF Kowalski - Living Reviews in Solar Physics, 2024 - Springer
Magnetic storms on stars manifest as remarkable, randomly occurring changes of the
luminosity over durations that are tiny in comparison to the normal evolution of stars. These …

Radio emission from UV Cet: auroral emission from a stellar magnetosphere

TS Bastian, WD Cotton, G Hallinan - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The archetypical flare star UV Cet was observed by MeerKAT on 2021 October 5–6. A large
radio outburst with a duration of∼ 2 hr was observed between 886 and 1682 MHz, with a …

A Census of Near-UV M-dwarf Flares Using Archival GALEX Data and the gPHOTON2 Pipeline

P Rekhi, S Ben-Ami, V Perdelwitz… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
M-dwarfs are common stellar hosts of habitable-zone exoplanets. Near-UV (NUV) radiation
can severely impact the atmospheric and surface conditions of such planets, making the …

Separating states in astronomical sources using hidden Markov models: with a case study of flaring and quiescence on EV Lac

R Zimmerman, DA van Dyk, VL Kashyap… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We present a new method to distinguish between different states (eg high and low,
quiescent and flaring) in astronomical sources with count data. The method models the …

Near-ultraviolet continuum modeling of the 1985 April 12 great flare of AD Leo

AF Kowalski - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2022 - frontiersin.org
White-light stellar flares are now reported by the thousands in long-baseline, high-precision,
broad-band photometry from missions like Kepler, K2, and TESS. These observations are …

Stellar flares are far-ultraviolet luminous

VL Berger, JT Hinkle, MA Tucker… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We identify 182 flares on 158 stars within 100 pc of the Sun in both the near-ultraviolet
(NUV; Å) and far-ultraviolet (FUV; Å) using high-cadence light curves from the Galaxy …

Rising Near-ultraviolet Spectra in Stellar Megaflares

AF Kowalski, RA Osten, Y Notsu, II Tristan… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Flares from M dwarf stars can attain energies up to 10 4 times larger than solar flares but are
generally thought to result from similar processes of magnetic energy release and particle …

White-light Superflare and Long-term Activity of the Nearby M7-type Binary EI Cnc Observed with GWAC System

HL Li, J Wang, LP **n, JY Bai, XH Han… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Stellar white-light flares are believed to play an essential role in the physical and chemical
properties of the atmosphere of the surrounding exoplanets. Here we report an optical …

Preparing for the Early eVolution Explorer: Characterizing the photochemical inputs and transit detection efficiencies of young planets using multiwavelength flare …

WS Howard, MA MacGregor, AD Feinstein… - The Astronomical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Ultraviolet flare emission can drive photochemistry in exoplanet atmospheres and even
serve as the primary source of uncertainty in atmospheric retrievals. Additionally, flare …

Potential Chromospheric Evaporation in the M Dwarf's Flare Triggered by Einstein Probe Mission

J Wang, X Mao, C Gao, HY Liu, HL Li… - The Astronomical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Although flares from late-type main-sequence stars have been frequently detected in the
multiwavelength, the associated dynamical process has been rarely reported so far. Here …