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 and Neil GEHRELS. A VERY BRIGHT, VERY HOT, AND VERY LONG FLARING EVENT FROM THE M DWARF BINARY SYSTEM DG CVn. Astrophysical Journal. BRISTOL: IOS Publishing, vol. 832, No 2, p. "nestrankovano", 19 pp. ISSN 0004-637X. doi:10.3847/0004-637X/832/2/174. 2016.
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Original name A VERY BRIGHT, VERY HOT, AND VERY LONG FLARING EVENT FROM THE M DWARF BINARY SYSTEM DG CVn
Authors OSTEN, Rachel A. (840 United States of America), Adam KOWALSKI (840 United States of America), Stephen A. DRAKE (840 United States of America), Hans KRIMM (840 United States of America), Kim PAGE (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), Kosmas GAZEAS (300 Greece), Jamie KENNEA (840 United States of America), Samantha OATES (724 Spain), Mathew PAGE (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), Enrique DE MIGUEL (724 Spain), Rudolf NOVÁK (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Tomáš APELTAUER (203 Czech Republic) and Neil GEHRELS (840 United States of America).
Edition Astrophysical Journal, BRISTOL, IOS Publishing, 2016, 0004-637X.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10308 Astronomy
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
WWW URL
Impact factor Impact factor: 5.533
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/16:00093551
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/832/2/174
UT WoS 000390490100034
Keywords in English stars: coronae; stars: flare; stars: individual (DG CVn)
Tags AKR, rivok
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Ing. Andrea Mikešková, učo 137293. Changed: 29/3/2017 16:24.
Abstract
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.
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