Talk:Superflare

Which Stars?

The article does not tell us the names of the 9 super flare stars. 72.204.15.161 (talk) 08:34, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

Later Work

This article is well written (though prolix), but it is out of date. It needs a rewrite by a competent astrophysicist.

Superflare studies are advancing rapidly; there are (2016 Jan) dozens of freely available papers on arxiv.org, and hundreds listed by google scholar.

Statistical properties of superflares on solar-type stars based on the Kepler 1-min cadence data (2016) by Hiroyuki Maehara et. al. describes 187 flares on 23 G type main sequence stars, and Can Superflares Occur on Our Sun? (2013) by Kazunari Shibata et. al. attempts to quantify the origins and frequencies of these events. The second paper suggests our own sun can indeed make superflares, and casts doubt on the notion that hot superjupiters are causal. As these papers make clear, we have far more to learn, especially about superflare generating processes in our own Sun.

Hundreds of superflares have been observed by Kepler over its brief mission; most of the stars have only catalog numbers, not names. The Shibata article implies that most G stars (the sun is a G2V) make superflares on the hundred-to-thousand year timescale. Kepler only looked at 0.25% of the sky for a few years, so the number of "super flare stars" may be in the millions, including our own Sun, whose most recent superflare may have occured at the tail end of the Maunder minimum.KeithLofstrom (talk) 18:54, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

Table of Original superflare candidates

column swap ?

The table of [9] Original superflare candidates is great, but could we swap the Detector and V(mag) columns so V(mag) is first - since that is a property of the star whereas the Detector is presumably what was used to record the superflare ? - Rod57 (talk) 21:02, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

Star identities

S Fornacis is hard to identify in List of stars in Fornax. ?? - Rod57 (talk) 21:15, 21 December 2016 (UTC)