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Table 4

X-ray flux and emission-weighted average thermal energy for quiescent and flaring time-intervals of the EPIC/pn observations of ϵ Eri that show variability (see text in Sect. 2.3.2).

No. obs. Obs. FX (10−11 erg cm−2 s−1) kTav [keV]
Quiescent Flaring Quiescent Flaring
1 02/2003 1.23 ± 0.01 1.47 ± 0.02 0.36 ± 0.02 0.40 ± 0.05
5 07/2016 1.76 ± 0.03 2.03 ± 0.02 0.39 ± 0.03 0.46 ± 0.06
8 01/2018 1.80 ± 0.04 2.05 ± 0.02 0.42 ± 0.09 0.44 ± 0.05
9 08/2018 1.86 ± 0.02 2.37 ± 0.02 0.38 ± 0.02 0.47 ± 0.03
10 01/2019 1.20 ± 0.01 1.33 ± 0.03 0.32 ± 0.02 0.34 ± 0.08
11 08/2019 1.56 ± 0.02 2.08 ± 0.02 0.41 ± 0.05 0.53 ± 0.04
13 08/2020 1.44 ± 0.02 1.73 ± 0.04 0.36 ± 0.03 0.36 ± 0.06
14 01/2021 1.71 ± 0.02 1.83 ± 0.03 0.39 ± 0.03 0.42 ± 0.07
16 01/2022 1.22 ± 0.01 1.52 ± 0.02 0.33 ± 0.02 0.44 ± 0.09

Notes. FX and kTav were derived from spectral fitting of EPIC/pn data for the light curves flagged as variable with the changepoint analysis; see Sect. 2.3.2 for the definition of the two brightness states. Errors are 95% confidence levels computed with the XSPEC ERROR command.

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