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The 'standard solar' flare model collects all physical ingredients identified by multi-wavelength observations of our Sun: magnetic reconnection, fast particle acceleration and the resulting emission at various wavelengths, especially in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-24 Wenzhi Ruan , Chun Xia , Rony Keppens

Possible entropy constraints on particle acceleration spectra are discussed. Solar flare models invoke a variety of initial distributions of the primary energy release over the particles of the flare plasma -- ie., the partition of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 John C Brown , Gregory Beekman , Norman Gray , Alexander L MacKinnon

We study the inverse Compton scattering of solar photons by Galactic cosmic-ray electrons. We show that the gamma-ray emission from this process is substantial with the maximum flux in the direction of the Sun; the angular distribution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Igor V. Moskalenko , Troy A. Porter , Seth W. Digel

We have used a Monte Carlo simulation of a Polar Cap (PC) model of gamma-ray pulsars to estimate light curves and phase-resolved spectra for sources whose rotational and magnetic axes are oriented so that only one of the magnetic poles…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Joseph K. Daugherty , Alice K. Harding

Observations of solar flares with RHESSI have shown X-ray sources traveling along flaring loops, from the corona down to the chromosphere and back up. The 28 November 2002 C1.1 flare, first observed with RHESSI by Sui et al. 2006 and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Jeffrey W. Reep , Stephen J. Bradshaw , Gordon D. Holman

A major open issue concerning the active Sun is the effectiveness with which magnetic reconnection accelerates electrons in flares. A paper published by {\em{Nature}} in 2022 used microwave observations to conclude that the Sun is an almost…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-10 Anna Volpara , Paolo Massa , Michele Piana , Anna Maria Massone , A Gordon Emslie

The solar corona is orders of magnitude hotter than the underlying photosphere, but how the corona attains such high temperatures is still not understood. Soft X-ray (SXR) emission provides important diagnostics for thermal processes in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-15 Amir Caspi , Thomas N. Woods , Harry P. Warren

Massive stars in binary systems have long been regarded as potential sources of high-energy gamma rays.The emission is principally thought to arise in the region where the stellar winds collide and accelerate relativistic particles which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 K. Reitberger , R. Kissmann , A. Reimer , O. Reimer

At hard X-ray energies, the bright footpoint emission from solar flare loops often prevents a detailed analysis of the weaker loop-top source morphology due to the limited dynamic range available for X-ray imaging. Here, we study the X1.3…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 Frederic Effenberger , Fatima Rubio da Costa , Vahe Petrosian

In this paper, we propose that the accelerated electrons in the quiet Sun could collide with the solar atmosphere to emit Hard X-rays (HXRs) via non-thermal bremsstrahlung, while some of these electrons would move upwards and escape into…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-31 Wen Wang , Linghua Wang , Sam Krucker , Iain Hannah

In this paper, the energy budgets of two single-loop like flares observed in X- ray are analysed under the assumption that non-thermal electrons (NTEs) are the only source of plasma heating during all phases of both events. The flares were…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-19 R. Falewicz

In the majority of the literature on plasma shock waves, electrons play the role of "ghost particles," since their contribution to mass and momentum flows is negligible, and they have been treated as only taking care of the electric plasma…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Hans J. Fahr , John D. Richardson , Daniel Verscharen

Strong magnetic fields, synchrotron emission, and Compton scattering are omnipresent in compact celestial X-ray sources. Emissions in the X-ray energy band are consequently expected to be linearly polarized. X-ray polarimetry provides a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-29 M. Chauvin , H. -G. Florén , M. Friis , M. Jackson , T. Kamae , J. Kataoka , T. Kawano , M. Kiss , V. Mikhalev , T. Mizuno , N. Ohashi , T. Stana , H. Tajima , H. Takahashi , N. Uchida , M. Pearce

The Sun produces a steady signal of high-energy gamma rays through interactions of Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) with its atmosphere. Observations with Fermi-LAT and HAWC have revealed a gamma-ray flux significantly higher than early…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-19 Julien Dörner , Frederic Effenberger , Horst Fichtner , Julia Becker Tjus , Meng Jin , Wei Liu , Vahe' Petrosian

We investigate in detail the 21 May 2004 flare using simultaneous observations of the Nobeyama Radioheliograph, Nobeyama Radiopolarimeters, Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) and Solar and Heliospheric Observatory…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Alexey Kuznetsov , Eduard Kontar

Even small solar flares can display a surprising level of complexity regarding their morphology and temporal evolution. Many of their properties, such as energy release and electron acceleration can be studied using highly complementary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Marina Battaglia , Rohit Sharma , Yingjie Luo , Bin Chen , Sijie Yu , Säm Krucker

The soft X-ray emissions of solar flares come mainly from the bright coronal loops at the highest temperatures normally achieved in the flare process. Their ubiquity has led to their use as a standard measure of flare occurrence and energy,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Paulo J. A. Simões , Hugh S. Hudson , Lyndsay Fletcher

Using a Monte Carlo ray-tracing code in full general relativity, we calculate the transport of photons from a geodesic hot spot emitter through a corona of hot electrons surrounding a black hole. Each photon is followed until it is either…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jeremy D. Schnittman

We studied the soft X-ray data of solar flares and found that the distribution functions of flare fluence are successfully modeled by tapered power law or gamma function distributions whose power exponent is slightly smaller than 2,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 Takashi Sakurai

We report multi-wavelength observations of four solar flares on 2014 July 07. We firstly select these flares according to the soft X-ray (SXR) and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) emissions recorded by the Extreme Ultraviolet Variability…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-05 Dong Li , Alexander Warmuth , Lei Lu , Zongjun Ning