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Frequent flare events on the short-period M-type eclipsing binary BX Tri

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arxiv 1901.06106 v1 pith:J32LYVJ5 submitted 2019-01-18 astro-ph.SR

Frequent flare events on the short-period M-type eclipsing binary BX Tri

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We present long-term, multi-color photometric monitoring and spectroscopic observations of the short-period M-type eclipsing binary BX Tri. Six flare events were recorded in 4 years from 2014 to 2017. Three of them were detected on one night within an orbital cycle. The strongest one was identified on December 23, 2014. With the amplitudes of $\Delta$B=0.48 mag, $\Delta$V=0.28 mag, $\Delta$R=0.10 mag, $\Delta$I=0.02 mag, the total energy due to the flare event was measured to be 4.08 ($\pm$0.24) $\times$$10^{34}$ erg, exceeding the superflare level ($10^{34}$). Based on the observations, the evolutionary status of the binary system as well as the long-term orbital period changes were analyzed. It reveals that BX Tri is probably a semi-detached system with the primary component filling its Roche lobe. The extremely high occurrence of flare events of the binary could be related to the rapid mass transfer between components.

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