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The Kepler Catalog of Stellar Flares
The Astrophysical Journal
  • James R. A. Davenport, Western Washington University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-20-2016
Keywords
  • Stars: activity,
  • Stars: flare
Abstract

A homogeneous search for stellar flares has been performed using every available Kepler light curve. An iterative light curve de-trending approach was used to filter out both astrophysical and systematic variability to detect flares. The flare recovery completeness has also been computed throughout each light curve using artificial flare injection tests, and the tools for this work have been made publicly available. The final sample contains 851,168 candidate flare events recovered above the 68% completeness threshold, which were detected from 4041 stars, or 1.9% of the stars in the Kepler database. The average flare energy detected is ~1035 erg. The net fraction of flare stars increases with gi color, or decreasing stellar mass. For stars in this sample with previously measured rotation periods, the total relative flare luminosity is compared to the Rossby number. A tentative detection of flare activity saturation for low-mass stars with rapid rotation below a Rossby number of ~0.03 is found. A power-law decay in flare activity with Rossby number is found with a slope of −1, shallower than typical measurements for X-ray activity decay with Rossby number.

DOI
10.3847/0004-637X/829/1/23
Subjects - Topical (LCSH)
Stars--Activity; Stars--Structure; Light curves--Measurement;
Genre/Form
articles
Type
Text
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
Citation Information
James R. A. Davenport. "The Kepler Catalog of Stellar Flares" The Astrophysical Journal Vol. 829 Iss. 1 (2016) p. 23
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/james-davenport/7/