Flares on red dwarfs

By-product of the Project dwarf are the observation of flares on red dwarf in binary systems. The project dwarf is aimed at detection of circumbinary extrasolar planets using the timing of the minima of low-mass eclipsing binaries. There are many red dwarf stars among the observed objects. Thus time to time some flare was detected. Object GJ3236 turned to be the most active one. Another one was AD Leo, subject of 2019 campaign

Flare observed simultaneously by DPV and by L. Šmelcer in Valašské Medziříč
The amplitude of the flare in V and Ic filter.
Phased light curve with observed flares. Figure taken from the paper Optical flare activity in the low-mass eclipsing binary GJ 3236, 2016Ap&SS.361..302P
Light curves collected for one night


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