Solar Flares: Investigating the Link Between Metallicity and Stellar Activity

This study investigates the correlation between the frequency of solar flares and a star’smetallicity. It is known that metallicity affects convection in a star, and the mass of the star, the rotation rate of the star, and the convection in a star all affect the activity of a star. The activity of a star is defined by how many and how large the stellar flares and coronal mass ejections are. Therefore, a relationship should be able to be measured between the stellar flare frequency and metallicity (Saders et al.). Multiple data sets could be analyzed and used to explore this relationship, currently, this study focuses on Kepler data sets. The process involved sorting and filtering data by cross-referencing each data set with a previous study (Yang et al.)