Speaker
Description
The advent of modern photometric monitoring space missions has boosted
studies of stellar flares. Such events are key signatures of magnetic
activity on late-type stars, and important diagnostics for our understanding
of coronal physics as well as the evolution of planet atmospheres. These latter
ones are irradiated and heated by flares, possibly to the point of atmospheric
erosion and altered atmospheric chemistry.
Flares will be identified within the PLATO pipeline MSAP1 both in order to
remove stellar variability from the light curves and to extract astrophysically
important information. In this talk I provide a brief summary of the work
carried out under my lead in the PLATO WP 123 700 ("Stellar flares").
Moreover, I will present the potential of TESS and eROSITA in characterizing
the magnetic activity of PLATO targets. These missions have over the
last few years both performed an almost full-sky survey in the optical and in X-rays,
respectively. I will show preliminary results from a first match between the
PIC 1.1.0 and data obtained from TESS and eROSITA, and how the information
obtained is beneficial for studies of exoplanets.
