Kepler super-flare stars: what are they?

The Kepler mission has led to the serendipitous discovery of a significant number of “super flares” – white light flares with energies between 1033 erg and 1036 erg – on solar-type stars. It has been speculated that these could be “freak” events that might happen on the Sun, too. We have started a p...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Astronomy and astrophysics (Berlin) 2014-07, Vol.567, p.np-np
Hauptverfasser:	Wichmann, R., Fuhrmeister, B., Wolter, U., Nagel, E.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Astronomy Flares Missions Spectroscopy Stars stars: activity stars: atmospheres stars: chromospheres stars: flare stars: rotation stars: solar-type Stellar activity Sun White light
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