hyperflare

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English

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Etymology

From hyper- +‎ flare.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhaɪ.pə(ɹ)flɛə̯/

Noun

hyperflare (plural hyperflares)

  1. (astronomy, very rare) An extraordinarily powerful, massive flare, usually produced by a magnetar.
    • 2005, Arnon Dar, Hyperstars - Main Origin of Short Gamma Ray Bursts?, page 8:
      Such hyperflares may be the result of phase transitions from neutron matter to hyperon or strange-quark matter in hyperstars.
    • 2006, Tod E. Strohmeyer, Anna L. Watts, The 2004 Hyperflare from SGR 1806-20: Further Evidence for Global Torsional Vibrations, page 1:
      We report an analysis of archival RXTE data from the 2004 December hyperflare from SGR 1806-20.
    • 2014, Advanced Interferometers and the Search for Gravitational Waves: Lectures from the First VESF School on Advanced Detectors for Gravitational Waves, Springer International Publishing, →ISBN, page 41:
      For hyperflare events occurring at the time of advanced detector operation, the observable GW energetics at 100 Hz would be close to to 10-36J, leading to stringent constraints on the magnetar model.
    • 2019, Particle Physics At The Silver Jubilee of Lomonosov Conferences - Proceedings of The Eighteenth Lomonosov Conference On Elementary Particle Physics, World Scientific Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 294:
      This seems very plausible, as statistical and energetic considerations allow one to explain basic properties of FRBs with transformation of a tiny fraction (~10-5) of the magnetar hyperflare (~10-44 -10-46 erg) into a short radio burst.