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Observations of the Sun with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array have now started, and the thermal infrared will regularly be accessible from the NSF's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope. Motivated by the prospect of these new data, and by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Paulo J. A. Simões , Graham S. Kerr , Lyndsay Fletcher , Hugh S. Hudson , C. Guillermo Giménez de Castro , Matt Penn

We present simultaneous infrared and X-ray observations of the Galactic microquasar GRS 1915+105 using the Palomar 5-m telescope and Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer on July 10, 1998 UT. Over the course of 5 hours, we observed 6 faint infrared…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Eikenberry , K. Matthews , M. Muno , P. Blanco , E. Morgan , R. Remillard

The Weizmann Fast Astronomical Survey Telescope (W-FAST) is a 55cm optical survey telescope with a high cadence (25Hz) monitoring of the sky over a wide field of view (~7deg^2). The high frame rate allows detection of sub-second transients…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Guy Nir , Eran O. Ofek , Sagi Ben-Ami , Noam Segev , David Polishook , Ilan Manulis

We present the first observational study of the onset and evolution of solar flare turbulence in the lower solar atmosphere on an unprecedented time scale of 1.7 s using the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph observing plasma at a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-27 N. L. S. Jeffrey , L. Fletcher , N. Labrosse , P. J. A. Simões

Solar flares are known to release a large amount of energy into accelerating electrons. Studying small timescale ($\leq$ 2s) fluctuations in nonthermal X-ray flux offers the opportunity to probe the nature of those acceleration mechanisms.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Trevor Knuth , Lindsay Glesener

Investigate particle acceleration and heating in a solar microflare. In a microflare with non-thermal emission to remarkably high energies ($>50$ keV), we investigate the hard X-rays with RHESSI imaging and spectroscopy and the resulting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-17 I. G. Hannah , S. Krucker , H. S. Hudson , S. Christe , R. P. Lin

Solar flares are powerful particle accelerators, and in the accepted standard flare model most of the flare energy is transported from a coronal energy-release region by accelerated electrons which stop collisionally in the chromosphere,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-18 Paulo J. A. Simões , Lyndsay Fletcher , Hugh S. Hudson , Graham S. Kerr , Matt Penn , Karla F. Lopez

The GOES X1.5 class flare that occurred on August 30,2002 at 1327:30 UT is one of the few events detected so far at submillimeter wavelengths. We present a detailed analysis of this flare combining radio observations from 1.5 to 212 GHz (an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. G. Gimenez de Castro , G. Trottet , A. Silva-Valio , S. Krucker , J. E. R. Costa , P. Kaufmann , E. Correia , H. Levato

Fast Radio Bursts are millisecond bursts of radio radiation at frequencies of about 1 GHz, recently discovered in pulsar surveys. They have not yet been definitively identified with any other astronomical object or phenomenon. The bursts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-10 J. I. Katz

We have compiled a catalog of solar flares as observed by the Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) aboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft and the GOES spacecraft over a span from 1997 to 2010. During…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-05 Sumanth A. Rotti , Petrus C. H. Martens , Berkay Aydin

Around the peaks of substantial flares, bright artifact nearly horizontal saturation streaks (B-streaks) corresponding to the brightest parts of the flare sources appear in the STEREO/EUVI 195 A images. We show that the length of such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 I. M. Chertok , A. V. Belov , V. V. Grechnev

We present a uniform analysis of compact Ca II K (3934 \AA) brightenings that occur near flare kernels and assess their value as short-lead indicators of solar flare onset. Using high-cadence imaging from the Rapid Oscillations in the Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-29 Aman Priyadarshi M. Kumar , Juie Shetye , Sean G. Sellers , Damian J. Christian

Solar small scale microwave bursts (SMBs), including microwave dot, spike, and narrow band type III bursts, are characterized with very short timescales, narrow frequency bandwidth, and very high brightness temperatures. Based on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Baolin Tan

Here we present the study of a compact emission source during an X1.3 flare on 2022-March-30. Within a $\sim41$~s period (17:34:48 UT to 17:35:29 UT), IRIS observations show spectral lines of Mg II, C II and Si IV with extremely broadened,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-13 Yan Xu , Graham S. Kerr , Vanessa Polito , Nengyi Huang , Ju Jing , Haimin Wang

A new solar burst emission spectral component has been found showing sub-THz fluxes increasing with frequency, spectrally separated from the well known microwave component. Rapid pulsations are found present in all events observed at the…

Solar flare X-ray emission results from rapidly increasing temperatures and emission measures in flaring active region loops. To date, observations from the X-Ray Sensor (XRS) onboard the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-07 Daniel F. Ryan , Ryan O. Milligan , Peter T. Gallagher , Brian R. Dennis , A. Kim Tolbert , Richard A. Schwartz , C. Alex Young

In this paper, we present a study of an M2.2 class solar flare of 26 November 2000 from NOAA AR 9236. The flare was well observed by various ground based observatories (ARIES, Learmonths Solar Observatory) and space borne instruments (SOHO,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-07 R. Chandra , V. K. Verma , S. Rani , R. A. Maurya

We have performed the first polarimetry of solar flare emission at gamma-ray energies (0.2-1 MeV). These observations were performed with the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) for two large flares: the GOES…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Steven E. Boggs , W. Coburn , E. Kalemci

Observations of small-scale brightenings in the low solar atmosphere can provide valuable constraints on possible heating/heat-transport mechanisms. We present a method for the detection and analysis of brightenings and demonstrate its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-30 Llŷr Dafydd Humphries , Huw Morgan , David Kuridze

S. D. von Fellenberg et al. (2025a, Paper I) reported the first mid-infrared detection of a flare from Sgr A*. The JWST/MIRI/MRS observations were consistent with an orbiting hotspot undergoing electron injection with a spectrum that…