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Loop-aligned hydrodynamic modelings help better understand the thermodynamic evolution of flaring plasma confined in solar flare loops. Conventional loop modelings typically assume a uniform loop cross section. With a variation of the cross…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Yu Dai , Shihan Li , Wenlong Tang , Zhen Li , Mingde Ding

Long-lasting, intense, stellar X-ray flares may approach conditions of breaking magnetic confinement and evolving in open space. We explore this hypothesis with hydrodynamic simulations of flares occurring in a non-confined corona: model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Reale , F. Bocchino , G. Peres

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

Low-frequency longitudinal oscillations of a flaring coronal loop are studied numerically. In the recent work of Nakariakov et al., Astron. and Astrophys., 414, L25-L28 (2004) it has been shown that the time dependences of density and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Tsiklauri , V. M. Nakariakov , T. D. Arber , M. J. Aschwanden

Ever-increasing multi-frequency imaging of solar observations suggests that solar flares often involve more than one magnetic fluxtube. Some of the fluxtubes are closed, while others can contain open field. The relative proportion of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 Gregory D. Fleishman , Gelu M. Nita , Dale E. Gary

We present a detailed examination on the coronal nonthermal emissions during the preflare phase of the X4.8 flare that occurred on 2002 July 23. The microwave (17 GHz and 34 GHz) data obtained with Nobeyama Radioheliograph, at Nobeyama…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Ayumi Asai , Hiroshi Nakajima , Masumi Shimojo , Takaaki Yokoyama , Satoshi Masuda , Sam Krucker

RHESSI and Hinode observations of a GOES B-class flare are combined to investigate the origin of 15 MK plasma. The absence of any detectable hard X-ray emission coupled with weak blueshifted emission lines (indicating upward velocities…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-03 Ryan O. Milligan

We investigate the solar flare of 20 October 2002. The flare was accompanied by quasi-periodic pulsations (QPP) of both thermal and nonthermal hard X-ray emissions (HXR) observed by RHESSI in the 3-50 keV energy range. Analysis of the HXR…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 I. V. Zimovets , A. B. Struminsky

We investigate the sequence of events leading to the solar X1 flare SOL2014-03-29T17:48. Because of the unprecedented joint observations of an X-flare with the ground-based Dunn Solar Telescope and the spacecraft IRIS, Hinode, RHESSI,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Lucia Kleint , Marina Battaglia , Kevin Reardon , Alberto Sainz Dalda , Peter R. Young , Säm Krucker

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

Solar flares are explosive releases of magnetic energy stored in the solar corona, driven by magnetic reconnection. These events accelerate electrons, generating hard X-ray emissions and often display Quasi Periodic Pulsations (QPPs) across…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-25 Luiz A. C. A. Schiavo , Natasha L. S. Jeffrey , Gert J. J. Botha , James A. McLaughlin

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

We investigate the X-ray and UV emission detected by RHESSI and TRACE in the context of a solar flare on the 16th November 2002 with the goal of better understanding the evolution of the flare. We analysed the characteristics of the X-ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Hamish A. S. Reid , Nicole Vilmer , Guillaume Aulanier , Etienne Pariat

Understanding nonthermal particle generation, transport, and escape in solar flares requires detailed quantification of the particle evolution in the realistic 3D domain where the flare takes place. Rather surprisingly, apart of standard…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Gregory D. Fleishman , Gelu M. Nita , Natsuha Kuroda , Sabina Jia , Kevin Tong , Richard R. Wen , Zhou Zhizhuo

Superflares on the solar type stars observed by \textit{Kepler} demonstrate the contrast in the optical continuum of the order 0.1--1 per cent. The mechanism of formation of this radiation is not firmly established. We consider a model…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-09 B. A. Nizamov

We conduct a wide-band X-ray spectral analysis in the energy range of 1.5-100 keV to study the time evolution of the M7.6 class flare of 2016 July 23, with the Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer (MinXSS) CubeSat and the Reuven Ramaty High…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Shunsaku Nagasawa , Tomoko Kawate , Noriyuki Narukage , Tadayuki Takahashi , Amir Caspi , Thomas N. Woods

In solar flares, inverse Compton scattering (ICS) of photospheric photons might give rise to detectable hard X-ray photon fluxes from the corona where ambient densities are too low for significant bremsstrahlung or recombination. Gamma-ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Alec L. MacKinnon , Procheta C. V. Mallik

The hard X-ray (HXR) emission in solar flares comes almost exclusively from a very small part of the flaring region, the footpoints of magnetic loops. Using RHESSI observations of solar flare footpoints, we determine the radial positions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Marina Battaglia , Eduard P. Kontar

We present a statistical study of chromospheric evaporation in solar flares using simultaneous observations by the RHESSI X-ray telescope and the IRIS UV spectrograph. The results are compared with radiation hydrodynamic flare models from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Viacheslav M Sadykov , Alexander G Kosovichev , Ivan N Sharykin , Graham S Kerr

We have explored the relationship between hard X-ray (HXR) emissions and Doppler velocities caused by the chromospheric evaporation in two X1.6 class solar flares on 2014 September 10 and October 22, respectively. Both events display double…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 Dong Li , Zongjun Ning , Qingmin Zhang