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Superflares on Ordinary Solar‐Type Stars

Superflares on Ordinary Solar‐Type Stars

Short duration flares are well known to occur on cool main-sequence stars as well as on many types of `exotic' stars. Ordinary main-sequence stars are usually pictured as being static on time scales of millions or billions of years. Our sun has occasional flares involving up to $\sim 10^{31}$ ergs …