HST monitoring of flaring stars in the Galactic bulge

DOI

We utilize the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search Hubble Space Telescope/Advanced Camera for Surveys data set for a Deep Rapid Archival Flare Transient Search (DRAFTS) to constrain the flare rate toward the older stellar population in the Galactic bulge. During seven days of monitoring 229293 stars brighter than V=29.5, we find evidence for flaring activity in 105 stars between V=20 and V=28. We divided the sample into non-variable stars and variable stars whose light curves contain large-scale variability. The flare rate on variable stars is ~700 times that of non-variable stars, with a significant correlation between the amount of underlying stellar variability and peak flare amplitude. The flare energy loss rates are generally higher than those of nearby well-studied single dMe flare stars.

Cone search capability for table J/ApJ/754/4/table3 (Properties of DRAFTS flaring stars)

Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.17540004
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/754/4
Related Identifier https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/754/4
Related Identifier http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/754/4
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/754/4
Provenance
Creator Osten R.A.; Kowalski A.; Sahu K.; Hawley S.L.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2014
Rights https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.html
OpenAccess true
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics; Stellar Astronomy