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开普勒超级耀斑恒星:它们是什么?

Kepler super-flare stars: what are they?

R. Wichmann, B. Fuhrmeister, U. Wolter, E. Nagel

摘要:

开普勒任务意外地发现了大量的“超级耀斑”--能量在10^33尔格和10^36尔格之间的白光耀斑--发生在太阳型恒星上。据推测,这些可能是太阳上也可能发生的“反常”事件。我们已经开始了一项计划,研究这些超级耀斑所观测到的恒星的性质。在这里,我们提出了高分辨率光谱的11个这些恒星,并讨论我们的结果。我们发现,这些恒星中有几颗是非常年轻,快速旋转的恒星,可以预期高水平的恒星活动,但对于其他一些恒星,我们没有找到一个简单的解释超级耀斑的发生。

英文摘要:

The Kepler mission has led to the serendipitous discovery of a significant number of `super flares' - white light flares with energies between 10^33 erg and 10^36 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 programme to study the nature of the stars on which these super flares have been observed. Here we present high-resolution spectroscopy of 11 of these stars and discuss our results. We find that several of these stars are very young, fast-rotating stars where high levels of stellar activity can be expected, but for some other stars we do not find a straightforward explanation for the occurrence of super flares.

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