Coverage fraction of COs and FLs as function of the X-ray luminosity of ɛ Eri. Top panel: variation of percentage of COs that cover the surface of ɛ Eri throughout its cycle. Bottom panel: variation in percentage of the flaring component. The squares correspond to the observations with a flaring event in the short-term lightcurve. The error bars are the percentile at 10 and 90% of the 1000 best-matching representations selected for each observation.