From Radio to X‐Ray: Flares on the dMe Flare Star EV Lacertae
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Abstract
We present the results of a campaign to observe flares on the M dwarf flare star EV Lacertae over the course of two days in 2001 September, utilizing a combination of radio continuum, optical photometric and spectroscopic, ultraviolet spectroscopic, and X-ray spectroscopic observations, to characterize the multi-wavelength nature of flares from this active, single late-type star. We find flares in every wavelength region in which we observed. In the multi-wavelength context, the start of the intense radio flare is coincident with an impulsive optical U-band flare, to within one minute, and yet there is no signature of an X-ray response. There are other intervals of time where optical flaring and UV flaring is occurring, but these cannot be related to the contemporaneous X-ray flaring: the time-integrated luminosities do not match the instantaneous X-ray flare luminosity, as one would expect for the Neupert effect. We investigate the probability of chance occurrences of flares from disparate wavelength regions producing temporal coincidences, but find that not all the flare associations can be explained by a superposition of flares due to a high flaring rate. We caution against making causal associations of multi-wavelength flares based solely on temporal correlations for high flaring rate stars like EV Lac.
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