{"id":3925659,"date":"2026-04-27T04:04:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T09:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/tandem-superflare-observations-reveal-origin-of-the-stellar-fe-k%ce%b1-line\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T04:04:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T09:04:28","slug":"tandem-superflare-observations-reveal-origin-of-the-stellar-fe-k%ce%b1-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/tandem-superflare-observations-reveal-origin-of-the-stellar-fe-k%ce%b1-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Tandem superflare observations reveal origin of the stellar Fe K\u03b1 line"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Fe K\u03b1 line, or iron K\u03b1 line, is often used in astronomical research to understand the physical composition of astronomical objects. This line is produced when a K-shell electron of an iron ion in the photosphere\u2014the gas on the stellar surface\u2014is ejected by an external process, and has been detected in X-ray spectra of solar and stellar flares. Yet the dominant mechanism behind this ionization process has remained an open question for many years.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-04-tandem-superflare-reveal-stellar-fe.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fe K\u03b1 line, or iron K\u03b1 line, is often used in astronomical research to understand the physical composition of astronomical objects. This line is produced when a K-shell electron of an iron ion in the photosphere\u2014the gas on the stellar surface\u2014is ejected by an external process, and has been detected in X-ray spectra of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3925659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}