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Spectroscopic observations in X-ray wavelengths provide excellent diagnostics of the temperature distribution in solar flare plasma. The Solar X-ray Monitor (XSM) onboard the Chandrayaan-2 mission provides broad-band disk integrated soft…

The hard X-ray flux ratio R of the footpoint sources to the loop-top source has been used to investigate non-thermal electron trapping and precipitation in solar flares. Considering the mission-long Yohkoh Hard X-ray Telescope database,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Tomczak , T. Ciborski

We explore the temporal relationship between microwave/HXR emission and Doppler velocity during the impulsive phase of a solar flare on 2014 October 27 (SOL2014-10-27), which displays a pulse on the light curves in microwave (34 GHz) and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 Dong Li , Zongjun Ning , Yu Huang , Qingmin Zhang

Generally, large solar flares accelerate electrons to high energies more efficiently than microflares. However, some microflares, known as hard microflares (HMFs), also produce high-energy electrons, as indicated by their flat hard X-ray…

We investigate gamma-ray emission in the impulsive phase of solar flares and the detectability of non-thermal signatures from protostellar flares. Energetic solar flares emit high-energy gamma rays of GeV energies, but their production…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-08 Shigeo S. Kimura , Shinsuke Takasao , Kengo Tomida

Particles are accelerated to very high, non-thermal energies during explosive energy-release phenomena in space, solar, and astrophysical plasma environments. In the case of solar flares, it has been established that magnetic reconnection…

Particle acceleration in solar flares remains an outstanding problem in solar physics. It is yet unclear which of the acceleration mechanisms dominates and how exactly is the excessive magnetic energy transferred to the nonthermal and other…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Alexander T. Altyntsev , Nataliia S. Meshalkina , Alexandra L. Lysenko , Gregory D. Fleishman

The angular distribution of electrons accelerated in solar flares is a key parameter in the understanding of the acceleration and propagation mechanisms that occur there. However, the anisotropy of energetic electrons is still a poorly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-24 Ewan Cameron Mackenzie Dickson , Eduard Kontar

We investigate the influence of the variations of energy spectrum of non-thermal electrons on the resulting GOES classes of solar flares. Twelve observed flares with various soft to hard X-ray emission ratios were modelled using different…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 R. Falewicz , P. Rudawy , M. Siarkowski

Solar flares produce hard X-ray emission of which the photon spectrum is often represented by a combination of thermal and power-law distributions. However, the estimates of the number and total energy of non-thermal electrons are sensitive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 M. Oka , S. Ishikawa , P. Saint-Hilaire , S. Krucker , R. P. Lin

In this paper, we analyze hard X-ray spikes observed by RHESSI to understand their temporal, spectral, and spatial properties. A recently developed demodulation code was applied to hard X-ray light curves in several energy bands observed by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 J. Qiu , J. X. Cheng , G. J. Hurford , Y. Xu , H. Wang

We analyze the spectra of high temperature \fexxiv~lines observed by \emph{Hinode}/EIS during the impulsive phase of the X8.3--class flare on September 10, 2017. The line profiles are broad, show pronounced wings, and clearly depart from a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Vanessa Polito , Jaroslav Dudík , Jana Kašparová , Elena Dzifčáková , Katharine K. Reeves , Paola Testa , Bin Chen

During a solar flare, electrons are accelerated to non-thermal energies as a result of magnetic reconnection. These electrons then propagate upwards and downwards from the energy release site along magnetic field lines and produce radio and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-04 Shilpi Bhunia , Laura A. Hayes , Karl Ludwig Klein , Nicole Vilmer , Shane A. Maloney , Peter T. Gallagher

Nonthermal electrons accelerated in solar flares produce electromagnetic emission in two distinct, highly complementary domains - hard X-rays (HXRs) and microwaves (MWs). This paper reports MW imaging spectroscopy observations from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 Natsuha Kuroda , Gregory D. Fleishman , Dale E. Gary , Gelu M. Nita , Bin Chen , Sijie Yu

This Research Note is in response to the recent paper by S. M. Perriyil et al. (2026). They provide measurements of the time delay (delta t) between the hard X-ray and soft X-ray peak times for 96 flares observed with RHESSI and GOES. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-07 Brian R. Dennis , Hugh Hudson , Joel Allred

The GOES X1 flare SOL2014-10-25T17:08:00 was a three-ribbon solar flare observed with IRIS in the near and far ultraviolet. One of the flare ribbons crossed a sunspot umbra, producing a dramatic, $\sim1000$% increase in the near-ultraviolet…

The energy released in a solar flare is partitioned between thermal and non-thermal particle energy and lost to thermal conduction and radiation over a broad range of wavelengths. It is difficult to determine the conductive losses and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 J. C. Raymond , G. Holman , A. Ciaravella , A. Panasyuk , Y. -K. Ko , J. Kohl

This paper reports on the re-analysis of solar flares in which the hard X-rays (HXRs) come predominantly from the corona rather than from the more usual chromospheric footpoints. All of the 26 previously analyzed event time intervals, over…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 Brian R. Dennis , Miguel A. Duval-Poo , Michele Piana , Andrew R. Inglis , A. Gordon Emslie , Jingnan Guo , Yan Xu

In this work, we use HyLoop (Winter et al. 2011), a loop model that can incorporate the effects of both MHD and non-thermal particle populations, to simulate soft X-ray emissions in various situations. First of all, we test the effect of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-30 Katharine K. Reeves , Henry D. Winter , Natalie L. Larson

The imaging spectroscopy capabilities of the Reuven Ramaty high energy solar spectroscopic imager (RHESSI) enable the examination of the accelerated electron distribution throughout a solar flare region. In particular, it has been revealed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 Duncan J. Stackhouse , Eduard P. Kontar