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Meaning of "flare star" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FLARE STAR

flare star play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FLARE STAR

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Flare star is a noun.
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WHAT DOES FLARE STAR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

flare star

Flare star

A flare star is a variable star that can undergo unpredictable dramatic increases in brightness for a few minutes. It is believed that the flares on flare stars are analogous to solar flares in that they are due to magnetic reconnection in the atmospheres of the stars. The brightness increase is across the spectrum, from X rays to radio waves. The first known flare stars were discovered in 1924. However, the best-known flare star is UV Ceti, discovered in 1948. Today similar flare stars are classified as UV Ceti type variable stars in variable star catalogs such as the General Catalogue of Variable Stars. Flares can happen once every few days, or, as in the case of Barnard's Star, much less frequently. Most flare stars are dim red dwarfs, although recent research indicates that less massive brown dwarfs might also be capable of flaring. The more massive RS Canum Venaticorum variables are also known to flare, but it is understood that these flares are induced by a companion star in a binary system which causes the magnetic field to become tangled. Additionally, nine stars similar to the Sun have also been seen to undergo flare events.

Definition of flare star in the English dictionary

The definition of flare star in the dictionary is a red dwarf star in which outbursts, thought to be analogous to solar flares, occur, increasing the luminosity by several magnitudes in a few minutes.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FLARE STAR

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flaser
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WORDS THAT END LIKE FLARE STAR

binary star
blazing star
child star
dark star
double star
dwarf star
falling star
film star
guest star
media star
Michelin star
morning star
movie star
pole star
pop star
radio star
rising star
rock star
shooting star
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Synonyms and antonyms of flare star in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «flare star» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FLARE STAR

Find out the translation of flare star to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of flare star from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «flare star» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

耀星
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

estrella fulgurante
570 millions of speakers

English

flare star
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

चमक सितारा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نجمة مضيئة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

вспышка звезды
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

flare
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিস্তারণ তারকা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

étoiles fusée
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bintang suar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Flare -Sterne-
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

フレアスター
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

플레어 스타
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bintang lintang
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ngọn lửa sao
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விரிவடைய நட்சத்திரம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भडकलेली तारा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Alevli yıldız
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

stella bagliore
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pochodni gwiazdki
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

спалах зірки
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

stele flare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

flare αστέρι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

flare ster
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

utflytning stjärna
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bluss stjerne
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of flare star

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FLARE STAR»

The term «flare star» is normally little used and occupies the 113.281 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FLARE STAR» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about flare star

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FLARE STAR»

Discover the use of flare star in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to flare star and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Flare Star
The inception and termination of ice ages and the geologic upheavals they caused at a time when Earth was still a satellite of the planet Saturn.
Dwardu Cardona, 2007
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Flare Star
At long intervals in her far longer life, the Wolf star slipped into a deep sleep uncommon to a flare star, temporarily quiescent through a span of centuries, unusually mild in her temperament, almost benign in her solar dangers. In time, however ...
Paula Downing King, 2014
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Flare Stars in Star Clusters, Associations, and the Solar ...
Some 70 papers present the flare star problem from both a physical and evolutionary aspect, and represent an interaction between investigators working on flare stars in clusters and associations, and those working on the UV Ceti stars in ...
International Astronomical Union. Symposium, L.V. Mirzoyan, B.R. Pettersen, 1990
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Cataclysmic Cosmic Events and How to Observe Them
This flare star is the only one described in this section that is more than 20 light- years from Earth. At 49 light-years it is far more distant and intrinsically the brightest star in its quiescent state; in other words, it has the most luminous absolute ...
Martin Mobberley, 2009
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Variable Stars and Stellar Evolution
This paper reports the researches of the Texas flare star group. High time resolution and simultaneous photometric, spectroscopic and, if possible, radio observations of flaring stars are essential. Fast and slow flares are distinguished and their ...
V.E. Sherwood, L. PLAUT (Ed), 1975
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Solar-Type Activity in Main-Sequence Stars
On each flare star in the solar vicinity over several tens of hours of photoelectric monitoring a number of flares can be recorded, which is sufficient for the construction of the energy spectrum of flares, but the frequency of photographically ...
Svetlana Knyazeva, Roald E. Gershberg, 2006
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Stellar Rotation: Proceedings of the IAU Colloquium Held at ...
ON THE UV CET-TYPE STAR ROTATION R.E.GERSHBERG Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, U.S.S.R. (Paper read by R. P. Kraft) Abstract. The upper limits of flare star rotational velocities are evaluated from the photometric features of the ...
A. SLETTEBAK (Ed), International Astronomical Union, 1970
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Astronomy from Wide-Field Imaging: Proceedings of the 161st ...
The flare star search in stellar aggregates has led to the accumulation of rich observational material allowing us to look for statistical regularities in star formation and evolution. At present, there are more than 1500 known flare stars in the ...
H.T. MacGillivray, H. Y. MacGillivray, E.B. Thomson, 1994
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Flare Stars: Proxima Centauri, Wolf 359, Vb 10, Gliese 752, ...
Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 123. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge.
LLC Books, 2010
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Centauri Dreams: Imagining and Planning Interstellar Exploration
It is 19,000 times fainter than the Sun (faint enough to have eluded detection until 1915) and is a flare star, doubling its light output in a matter of minutes in ways that fascinate astrophysicists. The detection of planets around such a star would ...
Paul Gilster, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FLARE STAR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term flare star is used in the context of the following news items.
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A Cosmic Close Shave... 70000 Years Ago.
Interestingly, the bigger of the two is what we call a flare star: It's magnetically active, and can have surface eruptions like solar flares, but far ... «Slate Magazine, Feb 15»
2
Haitian Rail – Solarists (2014)
Flare Star” starts out sounding like the smoldering wreckage left behind by “Scintillator.” Millevoi scrapes on a string while Ricart lets his amp ... «Something Else! Reviews, Jul 14»
3
Our neighbour Proxima Centauri not quite next door
It's also a ''flare star'', meaning it can increase its brightness suddenly and unexpectedly. Studies have not indicated any planets orbiting it. «Sydney Morning Herald, Jun 14»
4
14 Red Dwarf Stars to View with Backyard Telescopes
Struve 2398: A binary flare star system consisting of two +9th ... AD Leonis: A variable flare star in the constellation Leo about 16 light years ... «Universe Today, May 14»
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Proxima Centauri, Nearest Star to Sun, Seen by Hubble Telescope …
Astronomers call it a "flare star," as convection processes within the star's body give rise to random, powerful changes in brightness. [Take a ... «Space.com, Jan 14»
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Hubble Gets Personal With Nearest Stellar Neighbor
Proxima is known to undergo dramatic changes in brightness and is therefore a known “flare star.” Exoplanet hunters have shown interest in ... «Discovery News, Nov 13»
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Proxima Centauri: Hubble Captures Sharpest-Ever Image of Sun's …
Proxima Centauri is a flare star, meaning that convection processes within the star's body make it prone to random and dramatic changes in ... «Sci-News.com, Nov 13»
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Hubble Captures Stunning Image of Closest Stellar Neighbor
Occasionally, Proxima Centauri undergoes a sudden increase in brightness, earning it the title of a flare star. This is a result of the convection ... «Nature World News, Nov 13»
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Closest Star To Our Sun Beckons In New Hubble Image
“Proxima is what is known as a 'flare star', meaning that convection processes within the star's body make it prone to random and dramatic ... «Universe Today, Oct 13»
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Distant Flare Star Briefly Erupts to 15 Times its Normal Brightness
A star in the Ursa Major constellation, about 15.6 light years away from Earth, gave astronomers a surprise when it unleashed a flare so intense ... «Nature World News, Jun 13»

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