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A Single Power Law for the TRAPPIST-1 Flare Distribution across 4 Orders of Magnitude in Energy

  • Authors: Valeriy Vasilyev, Alexander I. Shapiro, Nadiia Kostogryz, Chia-Lung Lin, Greg Kopp, Benjamin V. Rackham, Astrid M. Veronig, Olivia Lim, Julien de Wit, Daniel Apai, Laurent Gizon, Sami K. Solanki, Sara Seager

Valeriy Vasilyev et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1004 .

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Matched-filter flare detection illustrated for Flare 1. (a) Two-dimensional matched-filter S/N map as a function of trial peak time t0 and template FWHM. (b) One-dimensional detection statistic obtained by maximizing the S/N over the FWHM at each t0 and then smoothing in time; the horizontal dashed line marks the adopted detection threshold (S/N = 10), and the star marks the detected peak. (c) Hα light curve around the detected event (points) together with the best-matching flare template (curve) corresponding to the peak in panel (b). This event occurs during a planetary transit. However, no explicit transit subtraction is applied in Hα, since stellar variability dominates at these wavelengths and cadences.

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