Informace o publikaci
A VERY BRIGHT, VERY HOT, AND VERY LONG FLARING EVENT FROM THE M DWARF BINARY SYSTEM DG CVn
| Autoři | |
|---|---|
| Rok publikování | 2016 |
| Druh | Článek v odborném periodiku |
| Časopis / Zdroj | Astrophysical Journal |
| Fakulta / Pracoviště MU | |
| Citace | |
| www | http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/0004-637X/832/2/174/meta;jsessionid=AB7A964C666CBD80C6B55F9810D105F7.c2.iopscience.cld.iop.org |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/832/2/174 |
| Obor | Astronomie a nebeská mechanika, astrofyzika |
| Klíčová slova | stars: coronae; stars: flare; stars: individual (DG CVn) |
| Popis | On 2014 April 23, the Swift satellite responded to a hard X-ray transient detected by its Burst Alert Telescope, which turned out to be a stellar flare from a nearby, young M dwarf binary DG CVn. We utilize observations at X-ray, UV, optical, and radio wavelengths to infer the properties of two large flares. The X-ray spectrum of the primary outburst can be described over the 0.3-100 keV bandpass by either a single very high-temperature plasma or a nonthermal thick-target bremsstrahlung model, and we rule out the nonthermal model based on energetic grounds. The temperatures were the highest seen spectroscopically in a stellar flare, at T-X of 290 MK. The first event was followed by a comparably energetic event almost a day later. We constrain the photospheric area involved in each of the two flares to be >10(20) cm(2), and find evidence from flux ratios in the second event of contributions to the white light flare emission in addition to the usual hot, T similar to 10(4) K blackbody emission seen in the impulsive phase of flares. The radiated energy in X-rays and white light reveal these events to be the two most energetic X-ray flares observed from an M dwarf, with X-ray radiated energies in the 0.3-10 keV bandpass of 4 x 10(35) and 9 x 10(35) erg, and optical flare energies at E-V of 2.8 x 10(34) and 5.2 x 10(34) erg, respectively. The results presented here should be integrated into updated modeling of the astrophysical impact of large stellar flares on close-in exoplanetary atmospheres. |