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The solar—stellar connection: the relationship between flaring rates, flare power and quiescent X-ray background
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 September 2017
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The nature of flare activity on dMc stars (red dwarfs with strong chromospheric IIα emission lines) has been the subject of many studies. Some years ago Lacy et al. (1976) demonstrated a relationship (see also Doyle et al., 1986) between mean flare power and quiescent luminosity, in the photometric U-band. This study was extended, independently, by Skumanich (1985, 1986) and Doyle and Butler (1985) to show that the time averaged U-band power-loss due to flaring is linearly related to a star's quiescent X-ray luminosity. Skumanich also showed an inverse relationship between a star's flaring-rate and its quiescent X-ray luminosity.
- Type
- Session I: Stellar Flares
- Information
- International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 104 , Issue 2: Solar and Stellar Flares , 1989 , pp. 13 - 16
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- Copyright © Kluwer 1989