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Young and Old Subsystems of Flare Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

L.V. Mirzoyan  and
V.V. Hambarian
L.V. Mirzoyan
Affiliation:
Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory, Armenia
V.V. Hambarian
Affiliation:
Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory, Armenia

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Photographic observations with wide-field telescopes of flare stars in the Orion association and the Pleiades cluster have been carried out since 40 years. About 500 flare stars were found in each of these systems. The ages of these stellar systems differ by one or two orders of magnitude (Mirzoyan 1991). This fact allows us to compare them, in order to show that they fit into the concept, suggested first by Haro (1957), that the evolutionary status of flare stars is a stage of red dwarf star evolution which follows that of the T Tau stars (Haro 1976, Ambartsumian & Mirzoyan 1970).

The basic difference between the Orion and Pleiades subsystems of flare stars has been known for a long time: the coexistence of flare stars and T Tau stars in the Orion association, and the absence of the latter group in the Pleiades. Some of the T Tau stars show flare activity (Haro 1964). This fact and the existence of multiple systems of trapezium type, which are dynamically unstable, in the Orion association, are arguments in favour of an evolutionary connection between these two types of stars.

Type
Flares in Late-type Stars: Radio and Optical
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 151: Flares and Flashes , 1995 , pp. 63 - 64
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1995

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