
%0 Journal Article
%A Skumanich, A 
%T Evidence for a Common Magnetic Driver for Flares and Quiescent Coronae/Chromospheres
%J Australian Journal of Physics
%D 1985/12/01
%V 38
%N 6
%P 971-980
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/PH850971
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/PH850971 
%X The mean power and rate of optical flares in dMe stars are found to be correlated with their quiet coronal X-ray luminosity. The mean flare luminosity in the photometric V-band appears to scale linearly with the X-ray luminosity with a slope of 0·04. This coincidence suggests that quiet and flare activity in coronae/chromospheres may be related by one and the same flaring mechanism. We propose that 'quiet' activity is due to microflares-a low yield but high frequency continuation of flares. 
