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Discovery of superflares

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2016

Daisaku Nogami
Daisaku Nogami*
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwake-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan, 606-8502 email: nogami@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp
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Abstract

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We have discovered 1547 ‘superflares’ on about 279 G-type main-sequence stars by using the Kepler-spacecraft data of Q0-Q6. ‘Superflares’ mean flares that radiate total energy 10 times or more larger than that of the largest flare in the Sun ever recorded. We here briefly review our current understandings on superflares and superflare stars obtained by analyzing the Kepler data and follow-up high dispersion spectra.

Keywords

stars:activitystars:flaresstars:Solar-type
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 11 , Symposium S320: Solar and Stellar Flares and their Effects on Planets , August 2015 , pp. 119 - 127
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2016 

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