Microwave emission from flare star AT Mic
| Autor: | O. B. Slee, C. J. Rennie, Ian R. Tuohy, Gareth Nelson |
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| Rok vydání: | 1981 |
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Physics
Multidisciplinary Solar flare Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Flare star Astronomy Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics Astrophysics Light curve law.invention Stars law Brightness temperature Binary star Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics Microwave Flare |
| Zdroj: | Nature. 292:220-221 |
| ISSN: | 1476-4687 0028-0836 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/292220a0 |
| Popis: | There have been several comprehensive optical and low-frequency radio surveys of flare stars1,2 but much less attention has been directed to the microwave emission from such stars. Slee and Page3 claimed to have detected one short 5-GHz flare from Proxima Centauri, and several weak, short 5-GHz bursts were reported from YZ CMi (ref. 4) and Proxima Centauri (refs 5, 6) during simultaneous X-ray, optical and microwave observations. We describe here the most convincing detection (7σ) yet made of a microwave flare during simultaneous optical and 5-GHz observations of the dMe 4.5 flare star AT Mic on 25 October 1980. This event was notable for its long duration and the good temporal correlation between the optical and microwave intensities. Unless the dimensions of the source are very much larger than those observed for solar flares, the 5-GHz source has too great a brightness temperature to be produced by the gyrosynchrotron mechanism usually invoked for solar microwave bursts. Much higher energy particles or a coherent emission mechanism must be involved in the stellar microwave flare. The observed correlation between the optical and microwave fluxes from this flare support the theories in which non-thermal electrons are responsible for both emissions. |
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