Stellar flares from Q0-Q17 Kepler LCs Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Davenport J.R.A.
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    CDS
Abstract

A homogeneous search for stellar flares has been performed using every available Kepler light curve. An iterative light curve de-trending approach was used to filter out both astrophysical and systematic variability to detect flares. The flare recovery completeness has also been computed throughout each light curve using artificial flare injection tests, and the tools for this work have been made publicly available. The final sample contains 851168 candidate flare events recovered above the 68% completeness threshold, which were detected from 4041 stars, or 1.9% of the stars in the Kepler database. The average flare energy detected is ~10^35^erg. The net fraction of flare stars increases with g-i color, or decreasing stellar mass. For stars in this sample with previously measured rotation periods, the total relative flare luminosity is compared to the Rossby number. A tentative detection of flare activity saturation for low-mass stars with rapid rotation below a Rossby number of ~0.03 is found. A power-law decay in flare activity with Rossby number is found with a slope of -1, shallower than typical measurements for X-ray activity decay with Rossby number.

Keywords
  1. stellar-flares
  2. stellar-masses
  3. photometry
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2016ApJ...829...23D
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/829/23
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/829/23
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.18290023

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http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/829/23
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/829/23
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/829/23
IVOA Table Access TAP
http://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tap
Run SQL-like queries with TAP-enabled clients (e.g., TOPCAT).
IVOA Cone Search SCS
For use with a cone search client (e.g., TOPCAT).
http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/829/23/table1?
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/829/23/table1?
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/829/23/table1?

History

2017-01-17T07:41:46Z
Resource record created
2017-01-17T07:41:46Z
Created
2017-11-29T11:49:06Z
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