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Critical comments on G. A. Gurzadyan's papers on flare stars

Authors :
R. E. Gershberg
Source :
Astrophysics. 16:223-227
Publication Year :
1980
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 1980.

Abstract

The observations of flares of UV Ceti stars give direct evidence for the existence in these eruptive processes of fast electrons. The photometric, colorimetric, and x-ray characteristics of the flares of the red dwarf stars which are regarded by Gurzadyan as observational confirmations of the fast-electron hypothesis are in reality not such confirmations. Independent data — colorimetric, infrared, and x-ray properties of the flares of UV Ceti stars — demonstrate the incorrectness of Gurzadyan's idea, according to which all manifestations of the activity of flare stars are due ultimately to only Compton radiation and nonthermal bremsstrahlung of fast electrons.

Details

ISSN :
15738191 and 05717132
Volume :
16
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Astrophysics
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........0717fadeb57c3b4618bfe88f7471c94d