Giant flare detected on an L dwarf

“European astronomers have spotted a giant white-light flare on the ultracool L dwarf designated ULAS J224940.13-011236.9. The newly detected flare is one of the largest flares ever observed from an ultracool dwarf. The discovery is detailed in a paper published February 3 on the arXiv.org pre-print server.”

Link to Study: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.00900

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2019-02-giant-flare-dwarf.html

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