Analysis and modeling of high temporal resolution spectroscopic observations of flares on AD Leo

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2006-02-06

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0602123v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Latex file with 17 pages, 11 figures. Available at http://www.ucm.es/info/Astrof/invest/actividad/actividad_pub.html Accepted

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20053615

We report the results of a high temporal resolution spectroscopic monitoring of the flare star AD Leo. During 4 nights, more than 600 spectra were taken in the optical range using the Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) and the Intermediate Dispersion Spectrograph (IDS). We have observed a large number of short and weak flares occurring very frequently (flare activity > 0.71 hours-1). This is in favour of the very important role that flares can play in stellar coronal heating. The detected flares are non white-light flares and, though most of solar flares belong to this kind, very few such events had been previously observed on stars. The behaviour of different chromospheric lines (Balmer series from H_alpha to H_11, Ca II H & K, Na I D_1 & D_2, He I 4026 AA and He I D_3) has been studied in detail for a total of 14 flares. We have also estimated the physical parameters of the flaring plasma by using a procedure which assumes a simplified slab model of flares. All the obtained physical parameters are consistent with previously derived values for stellar flares, and the areas - less than 2.3% of the stellar surface - are comparable with the size inferred for other solar and stellar flares. Finally, we have studied the relationships between the physical parameters and the area, duration, maximum flux and energy released during the detected flares.

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