How about a planet orbiting a flare star ? ( eg . a star like Groombridge 1618 ) talk ) 18 : 30, 21 August 2008 ( UTC)
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Luyten 726-8B is also known under the variable star designation "'UV Ceti "', being the archetype for the class of flare stars.
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He claimed to have discovered another nova in Cygnus in 1923, but this could not be independently confirmed, and it is possible that it was a flare star.
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At least one of the members of this system is a type of variable known as a flare star, which means it undergoes brief increases in brightness at random intervals.
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If superflares were caused by close planets the 279 flare stars discovered should have about 28 transiting companions; none of them actually showed evidence of transits, effectively excluding this explanation.
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AD Leonis is one of the most active flare stars known, and the emissions from the flares have been detected across the electromagnetic spectrum as high as the X-ray band.
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Measurements of HD 196982 during 1969 showed them to be the most active flare stars known at that time : over a period of 16.31 hours, 54 flares were observed.
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It is also a flare star, and classified as a UV Ceti variable type, but it is not nearly as remarkable or extreme in its behavior as its companion star UV Ceti.
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In the past Lacaille 8760 has been classified anywhere from spectral class Irish astronomer Patrick Byrne discovered that it is a flare star, and it was given the variable star designation AX Microscopii.
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Although UV Ceti was not the first flare star discovered, it is the most prominent example of such a star, so similar flare stars are now classified as UV Ceti type variable stars.
