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VLA Observations of Stellar Flares: A 3-Hour Flare of the RS CVN Star λ Andromedae and A 5-Minute Flare of the BP STAR HR 5942

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2017

Stephen A. Drake
Affiliation:
ST Systems Corp. @ NASA/GSFC
Jeffrey L. Linsky
Affiliation:
JILA, NBS and U. Colorado

Abstract

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We describe high-sensitivity VLA observations of rapidly varying radio emission (‘flares’) from two stars of very different types, one of which (λ And) is a Long-Period RS CVn system, and the other (HR 5942) is a magnetic Bp star. In both cases, however, the physical mechanism producing the radio emission is most likely to be gyrosynchrotron radiation from mildly relativistic, power-law electrons.

Type
Session I: Stellar Flares
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1989

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