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Title:
X-ray flares on the UV Ceti-type star CC Eridani: a ``peculiar'' time-evolution of spectral parameters
Authors:
Crespo-Chacón, I.; Micela, G.; Reale, F.; Caramazza, M.; López-Santiago, J.; Pillitteri, I.
Affiliation:
AA(INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, Piazza del Parlamento 1, 90134 Palermo, Italy ; Departamento de Astrofísica, Facultad de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain ), AB(INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, Piazza del Parlamento 1, 90134 Palermo, Italy ), AC(INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, Piazza del Parlamento 1, 90134 Palermo, Italy; Dip. di Scienze Fisiche e Astronomiche - Sez. di Astronomia - Università di Palermo, Piazza del Parlamento 1, 90134 Palermo, Italy ), AD(INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, Piazza del Parlamento 1, 90134 Palermo, Italy; Dip. di Scienze Fisiche e Astronomiche - Sez. di Astronomia - Università di Palermo, Piazza del Parlamento 1, 90134 Palermo, Italy ), AE(INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, Piazza del Parlamento 1, 90134 Palermo, Italy ), AF(Dip. di Scienze Fisiche e Astronomiche - Sez. di Astronomia - Università di Palermo, Piazza del Parlamento 1, 90134 Palermo, Italy )
Publication:
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 471, Issue 3, September I 2007, pp.929-939 (A&A Homepage)
Publication Date:
09/2007
Origin:
EDP Sciences
Keywords:
X-rays: stars, stars: coronae, stars: activity, stars: flare, stars: late-type, stars: individual: CC Eri
DOI:
10.1051/0004-6361:20077601
Bibliographic Code:
2007A&A...471..929C

Abstract

Context: Weak flares are supposed to be an important heating agent of the outer layers of stellar atmospheres. However, due to instrumental limitations, only large X-ray flares have been studied in detail until now.
Aims: We used an XMM-Newton observation of the very active BY-Dra type binary star CC Eri in order to investigate the properties of two flares that are weaker than those typically studied in the literature.
Methods: We performed time-resolved spectroscopy of the data taken with the EPIC-PN CCD camera. A multi-temperature model was used to fit the spectra. We inferred the size of the flaring loops using the density-temperature diagram. The loop scaling laws were applied for deriving physical parameters of the flaring plasma. We also estimated the number of loops involved in the observed flares.
Results: A large X-ray variability was found. Spectral analysis showed that all the regions in the light curve, including the flare segments, are well-described by a 3-T model with variable emission measures but, surprisingly, with constant temperatures (values of 3, 10 and 22 MK). The analysed flares lasted ~3.4 and 7.1 ks, with flux increases of factors 1.5-1.9. They occurred in arcades made of a few tens of similar coronal loops. The size of the flaring loops is much smaller than the distance between the stellar surfaces in the binary system, and even smaller than the radius of each of the stars. The obtained results are consistent with the following ideas: (i) the whole X-ray light curve of CC Eri could be the result of a superposition of multiple low-energy flares; and (ii) stellar flares can be scaled-up versions of solar flares.

Based

on observations obtained with XMM-Newton, an ESA science mission

with instruments and contributions directly funded by ESA Member

States and NASA.

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