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During solar flares a large amount of electrons are accelerated within the plasma present in the solar atmosphere. Accurate measurements of the motion of these electrons start becoming available from the analysis of hard X-ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-17 Anna Codispoti , Nicola Pinamonti

The rapid variability of X-ray binaries produces a wide range of X-ray states that are linked to activity across the electromagnetic spectrum. It is particularly challenging to study a sample of sources large enough to include all types in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-30 John M. Dickey , S. D. Vrtilek , Michael McCollough , Bram Boroson , John A. Tomsick , Charles Bailyn , Jay M. Blanchard , Charlotte Johnson

We investigate the effects of acceleration during non-linear electron-beam relaxation in magnetized plasma in the case of electron transport in solar flares. The evolution of electron distribution functions is computed using a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 M. Karlicky , E. P. Kontar

The impulsive phase of a solar flare is known to generate strong turbulence and to transfer magnetic energy into accelerated electrons. Recognizing the importance of angular diffusion on the dynamics of the accelerated electrons, we extend…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-30 A. Gordon Emslie , Eduard P. Kontar

Driven by recent RHESSI observations of confined loop-top hard X-ray sources in solar flares, we consider stochastic acceleration of electrons in the presence of Coulomb collisions. If electron escape from the acceleration region can be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Nicolas H. Bian , A. Gordon Emslie , Duncan J. Stackhouse , Eduard P. Kontar

X-rays have significant impacts on cold, weakly ionized protoplanetary disks by increasing the ionization rate and driving chemical reactions. Stellar flares are explosions that emit intense X-rays and are the unique source of hard X-rays…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-19 Haruka Washinoue , Shinsuke Takasao , Kenji Furuya

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

The development of multi-layer optics which allow to focus photons up to 100 keV and more promises an enormous jump in sensitivity in the hard X-ray energy band. This technology is already planned to be exploited by future missions…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Fabio Muleri , Riccardo Campana

Based on a sample of 1114 flares observed simultaneously in hard X-rays (HXR) by the BATSE instrument and in soft X-rays (SXR) by GOES, we studied several aspects of the Neupert effect and its interpretation in the frame of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Veronig , B. Vrsnak , B. R. Dennis , M. Temmer , A. Hanslmeier , J. Magdalenic

Solar flare accelerated electrons escaping into the interplanetary space and seen as type III solar radio bursts are often detected near the Earth. Using numerical simulations we consider the evolution of energetic electron spectrum in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-25 Hamish A. S. Reid , Eduard P. Kontar

Aims: This work aims to identify the mechanism driving pulsations in hard X-ray (HXR) and microwave emission during solar flares. Here, by using combined HXR and microwave observations from Solar Orbiter/STIX and EOVSA we investigate an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-01 Hannah Collier , Laura A. Hayes , Sijie Yu , Andrea F. Battaglia , William Ashfield , Vanessa Polito , Louise K. Harra , Säm Krucker

We compare the characteristics of flare-accelerated energetic electrons at the Sun with those injected into interplanetary space. We have identified 17 energetic electron events well-observed with the SEPT instrument aboard STEREO which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 Nina Dresing , A. Warmuth , F. Effenberger , K. -L. Klein , S. Musset , L. Glesener , M. Brüdern

Recent observations and simulations indicate that solar flares undergo extremely complex three-dimensional (3D) evolution, making 3D particle transport models essential for understanding electron acceleration and interpreting flare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-19 Xiaocan Li , Chengcai Shen , Xiaoyan Xie , Fan Guo , Bin Chen , Ivan Oparin , Yuqian Wei , Sijie Yu , Jeongbhin Seo

This paper studies acceleration processes of background thermal electrons in X-ray binary jets via turbulent stochastic interactions and shock collisions. By considering turbulent magnetized jets mixed with fluctuation magnetic fields and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-29 Jian-Fu Zhang , Zhi-Ren Li , Fu-Yuan Xiang , Ju-Fu Lu

The angular distribution of the emitted electrons, following the two--photon ionization of the hydrogen--like ions, is studied within the framework of second order perturbation theory \textit{and} the Dirac equation. Using a density matrix…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Koval , Stephan Fritzsche , Andrey Surzhykov

In previous works we have developed a method to convert solar X-ray data, collected with the Yohkoh/SXT, into templates of stellar coronal observations. Here we apply the method to several solar flares, for comparison with stellar X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 F. Reale , G. Peres , S. Orlando

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

During solar flares, a large fraction of the released magnetic energy is carried by energetic electrons that transfer and deposit energy in the Sun's atmosphere. Electron transport is often approximated by a cold thick-target model (CTTM),…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-09 Natasha L. S. Jeffrey , Eduard P. Kontar , Lyndsay Fletcher

Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS) in the soft x-ray range is an element-specific energy-loss spectroscopy used to probe the electronic and magnetic excitations in strongly correlated solids. In the recent years, RIXS has been…