Poster Open Access
KIC 2852961 – a superflaring red monster in the Kepler field
Kővári, Zs.;
Oláh, K.;
Günther, M.N.;
Vida, K.;
Kriskovics, L.;
Seli, B.
Superflares on giant stars have up to 100,000 times more energy than the high energy solar flares. However, it is disputed, whether scaling up a solar-type dynamo could explain such a magnitude difference. We investigate the flaring activity of KIC 2852961, a late-type spotted giant. We seek for flares in the Kepler Q0-Q17 datasets by an automated technique together with visual inspection. Flare occurence rate and flare energies are analyzed and compared to flare statistics of different targets with similar flare activity at different energy levels. We find that the flare energy distribution of KIC 2852961 does not seem to be consistent with that of superflares on solar-type stars. Also, we believe that in case of KIC 2852961 spot activity should have an important role in producing such superflares.
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- Publication date:
- February 22, 2021
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- Keyword(s):
- magnetic activity flares superflares late-type stars stars: individual: KIC 2852961
- Meeting:
- Cool Stars 20.5 - virtually cool
- Related identifiers:
- Derived from
- arXiv:2101.05025 (Poster)
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- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International