New Results on Stellar Flares Monitored with MAXI/GSC
Abstract
Monitor of All-Sky X-ray Image (MAXI) started its operation in 2009 August. Owing to its unprecedentedly high sensitivity as an all-sky X-ray monitor, and to its capability of real-time data transfer, MAXI is able not only to make a continuous monitor of X-ray sources, but also to catch quickly various transient X-ray events, like flares on stars. Making use of this capability, we have searched stellar flares, and have detected thirteen flares from six RS CVns and one flare from a Young Stellar Objects. These flares are on the high-end as flares from stars. In this talk, we will report the characteristics of X-ray flares in the sources.
- Publication:
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The First Year of MAXI: Monitoring Variable X-ray Sources
- Pub Date:
- December 2010
- Bibcode:
- 2010fym..confE..17T