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Massive flare and absorption

  • Adrolan by Adrolan

    What causes objects to flare or cv and have an associated massive absorbency? See APH0000hac,APH0000hbg

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  • davidbundy77 by davidbundy77

    The features on both of the stars you linked are glitches. Notice that the brightness scale goes negative, so the blip must be an artifact, possibly caused by a cosmic ray hitting Kepler.

    There are however plenty of stars with real flares (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_flare)

    A few stars in this survey are cataclysmic variable stars (CV) which are exotic binary systems (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataclysmic_variable_star )

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  • Adrolan by Adrolan

    Thanks I thought they were odd.

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