Continuum and line emission of flares on red dwarf stars: origin of the blue continuum radiation [SSA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.07550


There are two types of models that explain the appearance of the blue continuum radiation during the impulsive phase of stellar flares. Grinin and Sobolev (Astrophysics, vol. 13, 348, 1977) argue that this component of the optical continuum is formed in “the transition layer between the chromosphere and the photosphere”. Katsova et al. (Astrophysics, vol. 17, 156, 1981) have “raised” the source of the white-light continuum up to the dense region in the perturbed chromosphere. In the present contribution (the main paper was submitted to journal “Astrophysics”), we show that the statement by Katsova et al. is erroneous.

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E. Morchenko
Wed, 25 May 16
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Comments: 3 pages, no figures; to appear in the Proceedings of the conference “Radiation mechanisms of astrophysical objects: classics today” (this http URL), held in St. Petersburg, Russia, 2015 Sep 21-25