K2 ultracool dwarfs survey. III. M6-L0 flares Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Paudel R.R.
  2. Gizis J.E.
  3. Mullan D.J.
  4. Schmidt S.J.
  5. Burgasser A.J.,Williams P.K.G.
  6. Berger E.
  7. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We report the white light flare rates for 10 ultracool dwarfs using Kepler K2 short-cadence data. Among our sample stars, two have spectral type M6, three are M7, three are M8, and two are L0. Most of our targets are old low-mass stars. We identify a total of 283 flares in all of the stars in our sample, with Kepler energies in the range log E_Kp_~(29-33.5)erg. Using the maximum-likelihood method of line fitting, we find that the flare frequency distribution (FFD) for each star in our sample follows a power law with slope -{alpha} in the range -(1.3-2.0). We find that cooler objects tend to have shallower slopes. For some of our targets, the FFD follows either a broken power law, or a power law with an exponential cutoff. For the L0 dwarf 2MASSJ12321827-0951502, we find a very shallow slope (-{alpha}=-1.3) in the Kepler energy range (0.82-130)x10^30^erg: this L0 dwarf has flare rates which are comparable to those of high-energy flares in stars of earlier spectral types. In addition, we report photometry of two superflares: one on the L0 dwarf 2MASS J12321827-0951502 and another on the M7 dwarf 2MASS J08352366+1029318. In the case of 2MASSJ12321827-0951502, we report a flare brightening by a factor of ~144 relative to the quiescent photospheric level. Likewise, for 2MASSJ08352366+1029318, we report a flare brightening by a factor of ~60 relative to the quiescent photospheric level. These two superflares have bolometric (ultraviolet/optical/infrared) energies 3.6x10^33^erg and 8.9x10^33^erg respectively, while the full width half maximum timescales are very short, ~2min. We find that the M8 star TRAPPIST-1 is more active than the M8.5 dwarf 2M03264453+1919309, but less active than another M8 dwarf (2M12215066-0843197).

Keywords
  1. stellar-flares
  2. l-dwarfs
  3. stellar-distance
  4. brown-dwarfs
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2018ApJ...858...55P
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2019-05-03T10:44:32Z
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