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AD Leo恒星光学耀斑的亚秒级结构

Sub-second cadence structure of optical flares on AD Leo

Konkoly Observatory, HUN-REN Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences(孔科洛伊天文台,匈牙利研究网络天文学与地球科学研究中心);Eötvös University(厄特沃什大学)

B. Schmercz, B. Seli, K. Vida, L. Kriskovics, A. Görgei, K. Oláh, Zs. Regály

AI总结:

AD Leo恒星的亚秒级耀斑结构研究通过高采样率光度计揭示了耀斑的精细特征,发现无短周期准周期性脉动,但确认高采样率对信息保留的重要性。

摘要:

恒星耀斑是由于磁重联引起的突然亮化现象,常在晚型恒星上被观测到。高采样率的耀斑光度计提供了关于这些事件机制的有价值见解,但此类观测仍然很少。我们旨在探索恒星耀斑的亚秒级精细结构,并评估高速光度计的信息含量。新公布的六年间对活跃M型矮星AD Leo的0.3秒采样率光度计数据。我们使用时频分析来检测耀斑衰减阶段的准周期性脉动。我们探讨了检测到的耀斑时间序列复杂性的统计措施,以量化高采样率光度计所能获得的信息增益。我们检测到211小时观测中42次耀斑。耀斑频率分布与之前的文献一致。我们发现没有周期低于几秒的准周期性脉动,并识别出两个候选信号,其周期约为1和3分钟。使用不同的复杂性度量方法对分箱的耀斑光曲线进行分析,我们确认了高观测采样率的优势。然而,我们也发现对于几个复杂的耀斑,分箱到约4-5秒的平台,表明几秒的曝光时间通常足以保留单滤光片观测所携带的大部分信息。AD Leo的新光度观测揭示了耀斑光曲线在几秒时间尺度上的亚结构,但我们发现没有在更短时间尺度上的特征。

英文摘要:

Stellar flares are sudden brightenings caused by magnetic reconnection and are frequently observed on late-type stars. High-cadence photometry of flares provides valuable insights into the mechanisms of these events, yet such observations remain scarce. We seek to explore the sub-second fine structure of stellar flares and assess the information content in high-speed photometry. New 0.3 s-cadence photometry from a six-year-long observing campaign of the active M-dwarf AD Leo is presented. We use time--frequency analysis to detect quasi-periodic pulsations in the decay phase of flares. We explore statistical measures of time series complexity of the detected flares to quantify the information gain achievable with high-cadence photometry. We detect 42 flares in 211 hours of observations. The flare frequency distribution is consistent with the previous literature. We find no quasi-periodic pulsations with periods below a few seconds, and identify two candidate signals with periods around 1 and 3 min. Using different measures of complexity on the binned flare light curves we confirm the advantages of high observing cadence. However, we also find a plateau up to a binning of ~4--5 s for a few complex flares, suggesting that an exposure time of a few seconds is usually enough to retain most of the information carried by a single-filter observation. New photometric observations of AD Leo revealed sub-structures of flare light curves on the timescale of a few seconds, but we found no features on timescales below that.

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