**Table B.1:** Best-fit values of temperature, emission measure and metallicity (with 90% confidence errors) relevant to the thermal component of the model describing the flaring plasma; for each segment, the (approximated) number of counts in the PN spectrum is also reported.
		Variable z			Fixed z
Segment	Counts	$T_{\rm obs}$	EM	z	$T_{\rm obs}$	EM
		(10⁷ K)	(10⁵² cm^-3)		(10⁷ K)	(10⁵² cm^-3)
r	3600	$\rm 4.2^{+1.6}_{-1.0}$	$\rm 4.6^{+1.6}_{-1.5}$	1 (<2.9)	$\rm 4.2^{+1.3}_{-0.9}$	$\rm 4.9^{+0.3}_{-0.6}$
p1	4800	$\rm 3.3^{+0.7}_{-0.6}$	$\rm 9.3^{+1.9}_{-1.8}$	$\rm0.5^{+0.7}_{-0.4}$	$\rm 3.4^{+0.5}_{-0.4}$	$\rm 8.5^{+0.6}_{-0.5}$
p2^a	4700	$\rm 1.86^{+0.4}_{-0.25}$	$\rm 10.0^{+1.9}_{-1.8}$	$\rm0.30^{+0.26}_{-0.17}$	$\rm 2.2^{+0.25}_{-0.3}$	$\rm 7.4^{+0.6}_{-0.5}$
d1	4000	$\rm 1.43^{+1.6}_{-0.23}$	$\rm 6.5^{+1.9}_{-1.7}$	$\rm0.27^{+0.27}_{-0.15}$	$\rm 1.68^{+0.20}_{-0.25}$	$\rm 4.2^{+0.4}_{-0.7}$
d2	4100	$\rm 1.8^{+0.5}_{-0.3}$	$3.1 \pm 0.5$	0.27^b	2.0^+0.6_-0.3	$\rm 2.1^{+0.4}_{-0.4}$
p3	4800	$\rm 2.4^{+1.4}_{-0.8}$	$\rm 2.4^{+1.1}_{-1.3}$	0.48 (<2.8)	$\rm 2.5^{+1.1}_{-0.6}$	$\rm 2.0^{+0.3}_{-0.3}$

^a The agreement between data and model in the case of fixed z is not good ( $P(\chi > \chi_{\rm obs}) = 0.6\%$ ).
^b Fixed to the value of segment d1.

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	1 Introduction
	2 The sample
	3 Observations
	4 Data analysis
	5 Results
	6 Discussion
	Appendix A: Checking the high temperature tail of the EMDs
	Appendix B: Analysis of the flare on EK Dra
	References