Showing posts with label UV Ceti Flare Star. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UV Ceti Flare Star. Show all posts

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Unlisted UV Ceti Flare Star - KIC 7123391


Forum Talk members have identified a possible unlisted  UV Ceti flare star in the Q7 light curves.

Tom Jacobs:
 
Q7 flares KIC 7123391 This one has a similar outburst in Q8 near D795
No magnitude reading on star. Close in neighbors in sky view but look extremely weak.

Q8 time plot:



Daryll LaCourse:
 
Thanks for flagging this Tom; those look pretty powerful! Star type is listed as Unknown but perhaps it is an M dwarf.

Kian Jek:
Possible, there's hardly any color info on this star but the J-K value of 0.996 suggests a Teff under 4000K. that's about right for a UV Ceti type flare star.


You can follow this star here.





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