Toward the true number of flaring giant stars in the Kepler field - Are their flaring specialities associated with their being giant stars?

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Table 2

Basic stellar parameters, average flare energies (E_f, in the Kepler bandpass), and equivalent times (t_eq) of the 19 most flaring stars, and characteristics of the flare distributions.

KIC No.	T_eff	R∕R_⊙	P_rot	Number	L_⋆Kep	Mean E_f	Mean t_eq	Histogram	Remark ^(a)
	[K]		[d]	of flares	[10³³ erg s⁻¹]	[10³⁵ erg]	[s]	skew
1872340	5454	3.674	10.884	90	11.478	6.257	54.5	1.12
2968811	4220	3.504	14.814	118	2.966	4.988	168.2	0.76
4068539	4862	2.818	13.226	92	3.967	3.280	82.7	0.73
4157933	5567	3.547	6.914	139	11.703	9.777	83.5	0.66
4273689	5159	3.309	29.301	134	7.242	3.417	47.2	0.82
5181824	4732	9.231	6.861	79	37.279	24.350	65.3	0.08
5480528	4882	3.603	5.506	116	6.616	3.620	54.7	0.89
6707805	5613	5.261	22.216	103	26.680	38.036	142.6	0.20	SB2
7676676	4774	2.539	15.979	86	2.946	4.687	159.1	0.36
7740188	4419	3.028	9.094	130	2.831	3.274	115.7	0.35
7838958	5360	5.727	27.369	119	25.813	8.202	31.8	1.01
9237305	5107	2.074	23.458	95	2.715	1.003	37.0	0.09
9419002	5322	4.857	25.640	104	17.982	6.477	36.0	0.04
10603977	4933	2.728	17.962	112	3.987	2.573	64.5	0.89
10646009	4493	4.634	5.412	80	7.228	9.840	136.1	0.71
10666510	4790	2.074	20.845	165	1.998	0.882	44.2	0.53
11135986	4830	2.899	8.692	173	4.067	2.803	68.9	0.55
11551404	4703	2.944	11.120	155	3.678	3.077	83.7	0.22	SB2
11970692	4705	3.944	28.116	98	6.615	10.629	160.7	0.41

2852961	4797	10.836	35.715	59	54.940	215.427	392.1	−0.27	SB1

Notes. ^(a) SB1 = single-lined spectroscopic binary; SB2 = double-lined spectroscopic binary.

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