by Ivey Davis | Feb 14, 2023 | Daily Paper Summaries
We don’t fully understand the emission processes in stellar flares. These authors try to get to the heart of the problem with multi-instrument observations.
by Briley Lewis | Sep 17, 2020 | Daily Paper Summaries
M dwarfs are known to be really active when they’re young, which is bad for habitability. But what about old M dwarfs?
by Leonardo dos Santos | Nov 23, 2016 | Daily Paper Summaries
That giant blob of plasma right there in our cosmic backyard rules our everyday lives, and yet it still holds many surprises. We will see today that the Sun is significantly less active than other stars similar to it, and how this affects our future studies on the subject.
by Gudmundur Stefansson | Oct 28, 2015 | Daily Paper Summaries
Spirou often runs into fantastic adventures with his courageous, and sharp pet squirrel Spip. Their next adventure: a radial velocity spectrograph. What sophisticated technology is this? How does it work? What can it help us find?
by Ruth Angus | Apr 10, 2014 | Daily Paper Summaries
The orbits of some recently discovered exoplanets seem to be synchronised with the rotation of their host stars. Can this mystery be explained?
by Courtney Dressing | Jan 20, 2011 | Daily Paper Summaries
In everyday life, measuring distances is easy. In astronomy, however, accurate distance measurements are complicated by a whole host of factors. These authors are improving methods to determine the distance to small M Dwarf stars.