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Summary: Stellar Coronae in the Chandra and XMM-Newton Era
ASP Conference Series, Vol. TBD, 2001
F. Favata & J. Drake
Flares and Coronal Heating in Active Stars - A Statistical
Investigation
Manuel Gudel, Marc Audard
Paul Scherrer Institut, Wurenlingen & Villigen, CH-5232 Villigen PSI,
Switzerland
Vinay L. Kashyap, Jeremy J. Drake
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138,
USA
Edward F. Guinan
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Villanova University,
Villanova, PA 19085, USA
Abstract. Recent solar and stellar studies suggest that statistical
ares
may play a fundamental role in the coronal energy budget of the Sun and
of active stars. Flares appear to be distributed in energy in the form of
a power law, dN=dE / E , with a power-law index in the vicinity of
2. The value of is important since in the case of 2 a continuation
of the
are energy distribution to small energies could provide the energy
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