White-light flares on close binaries from Kepler Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Gao Q.
  2. Xin Y.
  3. Liu J.-F.
  4. Zhang X.-B.
  5. Gao S.
  6. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Based on Kepler data, we present the results of a search for white light flares on 1049 close binaries. We identify 234 flare binaries, of which 6818 flares are detected. We compare the flare-binary fraction in different binary morphologies ("detachedness"). The result shows that the fractions in over-contact and ellipsoidal binaries are approximately 10%-20% lower than those in detached and semi-detached systems. We calculate the binary flare activity level (AL) of all the flare binaries, and discuss its variations along the orbital period (P_orb_) and rotation period (P_rot_, calculated for only detached binaries). We find that the AL increases with decreasing P_orb_ or P_rot_, up to the critical values at P_orb_~3 days or P_rot_~1.5 days, and thereafter the AL starts decreasing no matter how fast the stars rotate. We examine the flaring rate as a function of orbital phase in two eclipsing binaries on which a large number of flares are detected. It appears that there is no correlation between flaring rate and orbital phase in these two binaries. In contrast, when we examine the function with 203 flares on 20 non-eclipse ellipsoidal binaries, bimodal distribution of amplitude-weighted flare numbers shows up at orbital phases 0.25 and 0.75. Such variation could be larger than what is expected from the cross section modification.

Keywords
  1. stellar-flares
  2. multiple-stars
  3. eclipsing-binary-stars
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2016ApJS..224...37G
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doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.22240037

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2016-08-22T09:45:23Z
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2016-08-22T09:45:23Z
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