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The hydrogen Lyman lines provide important diagnostic information about the dynamics of the chromosphere, but there have been few systematic studies of their variability during flares. We investigate Doppler shifts in these lines in several…

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Daily differential emission measure (DEM) distributions of the solar corona are derived from spectra obtained by the Extreme-ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE) over a 4-year period starting in 2010 near solar minimum and continuing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-16 Samuel J. Schonfeld , Stephen M. White , Rachel A. Hock-Mysliwiec , R. T. James McAteer

Observation of coronal EUV spectral lines sensitive to different temperatures offers an opportunity to evaluate the thermal structure and flows in flaring atmospheres. This can be used to estimate the partitioning between the thermal and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 Mykola Gordovskyy , Eduard Kontar , Philippa Browning

We present a statistical analysis of properties of Soft X-Ray (SXR) emission, plasma temperature (T), and emission measure (EM), derived from GOES observations of flares in 2002-2017. The temperature and emission measures are obtained using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Viacheslav M Sadykov , Alexander G Kosovichev , Irina N Kitiashvili , Alexander Frolov

The SDO EUV observations have revealed interesting characteristics of warm coronal emissions, which peak soon after the hot coronal X-ray emissions peak during a flare and then sometimes peak for a second time hours after the X-ray flare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Thomas N. Woods

We present an analysis of soft X-ray (SXR) and extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) observations of solar flares with an approximate C8 GOES class. Our constraint on peak GOES SXR flux allows for the investigation of correlations between various flare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-09 Trevor A. Bowen , Paola Testa , Katharine K. Reeves

We benchmark new atomic data against a selection of irradiances obtained from medium-resolution quiet Sun spectra in the EUV, from 60 to 1040 \AA. We use as a baseline the irradiances measured during solar minimum on 2008 April 14 by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-03 G. Del Zanna

Stellar flares are characterized by sudden enhancement of electromagnetic radiation from the atmospheres of stars. Compared to their solar counterparts, our knowledge on the coronal plasma dynamics of stellar flares and their connection to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Hechao Chen , Hui Tian , Hao Li , Jianguo Wang , Hongpeng Lu , Yu Xu , Zhenyong Hou , Yuchuan Wu

X-Ray and Ultraviolet (UV) observations of the outer solar atmosphere have been used for many decades to measure the fundamental parameters of the solar plasma. This review focuses on the optically thin emission from the solar atmosphere,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-06 Giulio Del Zanna , Helen E. Mason

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

The present work aims at analyzing the nature of millimeter (mm) emission observed during the post-impulsive phase of the solar flare SOL2022-05-04T08:45 (M5.7), detected by the RT-7.5 radio telescope of the Bauman Moscow State Technical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 G. G. Motorina , Yu. T. Tsap , V. V. Smirnova , A. S. Morgachev , A. S. Motorin

Solar flares are large-scale releases of energy in the solar atmosphere, which are characterised by rapid changes in the hydrodynamic properties of plasma from the photosphere to the corona. Solar physicists have typically attempted to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-26 S. Adamakis , C. L. Raftery , R. W. Walsh , P. T. Gallagher

We report solar flare plasma to be multi-thermal in nature based on the theoretical model and study of the energy-dependent timing of thermal emission in ten M-class flares. We employ high-resolution X-ray spectra observed by the Si…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-30 Rajmal Jain , Arun Kumar Awasthi , Arvind Singh Rajpurohit , Markus J. Aschwanden

We analyze EUV spectra of the full solar disk from the Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer (CHIPS) spanning a period of two years. The observations were obtained via a fortuitous off-axis light path in the 140 -- 270 Angstrom…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-16 Martin Sirk , Mark Hurwitz , Will Marchant

We present detailed EUV spectra of 4 large solar flares: M5.6, X1.3, X3.4, and X17 classes in the spectral ranges 176-207 \AA\ and 280-330 \AA. These spectra were obtained {by the slitless} spectroheliograph SPIRIT aboard the CORONAS-F…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 Sergey Shestov , Anton Reva , Sergey Kuzin

Recent observations in extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) wavelengths reveal an EUV late phase in some solar flares, which is characterized by a second peak in the warm coronal emissions (about 3 MK) occurring several tens of minutes to a few hours…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 Yuehong Chen , Yu Dai , Mingde Ding

Flare emissions in X-ray and EUV wavelengths have previously been modeled as the plasma response to impulsive heating from magnetic reconnection. Some flares exhibit gradually evolving X-ray and EUV light curves, which are believed to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 Jiong Qiu , Dana W. Longcope

The Solar Aspect Monitor (SAM) is a pinhole camera on the Extreme-ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE) aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). SAM projects the solar disk onto the CCD through a metallic filter designed to allow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-27 C. Y. Lin , S. M. Bailey , A. Jones , D. Woodraska , A. Caspi , T. N. Woods , F. G. Eparvier , S. R. Wieman , L. V. Didkovsky

Stellar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) can strip planetary atmospheres, reducing the potential habitability of terrestrial planets. While flares have been observed for decades, stellar CMEs remain elusive. Extreme ultraviolet…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-30 James Paul Mason , Allison Youngblood , Kevin France , Astrid M. Veronig , Meng Jin

The current sheet is an essential feature in solar flares and is the primary site for magnetic reconnetion and energy release. Imaging observations feature a long linear structure above the candle-flame-shaped flare loops, which resembles…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-03 Tingyu Gou , Katharine K. Reeves