J 2016

A VERY BRIGHT, VERY HOT, AND VERY LONG FLARING EVENT FROM THE M DWARF BINARY SYSTEM DG CVn

OSTEN, Rachel A.; Adam KOWALSKI; Stephen A. DRAKE; Hans KRIMM; Kim PAGE et. al.

Základní údaje

Originální název

A VERY BRIGHT, VERY HOT, AND VERY LONG FLARING EVENT FROM THE M DWARF BINARY SYSTEM DG CVn

Autoři

OSTEN, Rachel A.; Adam KOWALSKI; Stephen A. DRAKE; Hans KRIMM; Kim PAGE; Kosmas GAZEAS; Jamie KENNEA; Samantha OATES; Mathew PAGE; Enrique DE MIGUEL; Rudolf NOVÁK; Tomáš APELTAUER a Neil GEHRELS

Vydání

Astrophysical Journal, BRISTOL, IOS Publishing, 2016, 0004-637X

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

10308 Astronomy

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 5.533

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14310/16:00093551

Organizační jednotka

Přírodovědecká fakulta

UT WoS

000390490100034

EID Scopus

2-s2.0-85003876069

Klíčová slova anglicky

stars: coronae; stars: flare; stars: individual (DG CVn)

Štítky

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 29. 3. 2017 16:24, Ing. Andrea Mikešková

Anotace

V originále

On 2014 April 23, the Swift satellite responded to a hard X-ray transient detected by its Burst Alert Telescope, which turned out to be a stellar flare from a nearby, young M dwarf binary DG CVn. We utilize observations at X-ray, UV, optical, and radio wavelengths to infer the properties of two large flares. The X-ray spectrum of the primary outburst can be described over the 0.3-100 keV bandpass by either a single very high-temperature plasma or a nonthermal thick-target bremsstrahlung model, and we rule out the nonthermal model based on energetic grounds. The temperatures were the highest seen spectroscopically in a stellar flare, at T-X of 290 MK. The first event was followed by a comparably energetic event almost a day later. We constrain the photospheric area involved in each of the two flares to be >10(20) cm(2), and find evidence from flux ratios in the second event of contributions to the white light flare emission in addition to the usual hot, T similar to 10(4) K blackbody emission seen in the impulsive phase of flares. The radiated energy in X-rays and white light reveal these events to be the two most energetic X-ray flares observed from an M dwarf, with X-ray radiated energies in the 0.3-10 keV bandpass of 4 x 10(35) and 9 x 10(35) erg, and optical flare energies at E-V of 2.8 x 10(34) and 5.2 x 10(34) erg, respectively. The results presented here should be integrated into updated modeling of the astrophysical impact of large stellar flares on close-in exoplanetary atmospheres.