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The SOL2014-09-01 far-side solar eruptive event produced hard electromagnetic and radio emissions observed with detectors at near-Earth vantage points. Especially challenging was a long-duration >100 MeV $\gamma$-ray burst probably produced…

We report on radiative hydrodynamic simulations of moderate and strong solar flares. The flares were simulated by calculating the atmospheric response to a beam of non-thermal electrons injected at the apex of a one-dimensional closed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. C. Allred , S. L. Hawley , W. P. Abbett , M. Carlsson

Investigate the spatial and spectral evolution of hard X-ray (HXR) emission from flare accelerated electron beams subject to collisional transport and wave-particle interactions in the solar atmosphere. We numerically follow the propagation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 I. G. Hannah , E. P. Kontar

Solar flares are associated with intense soft X-ray emission generated by the hot flaring plasma. Kink unstable twisted flux-ropes provide a source of magnetic energy which can be released impulsively and account for the flare plasma…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-25 R. F. Pinto , N. Vilmer , A. S. Brun

The detailed knowledge of plasma heating and acceleration region properties presents a major observational challenge in solar flare physics. Using the Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI), the high temperature differential…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-02 Natasha Jeffrey , Eduard Kontar , Brian Dennis

Using the archival ROSAT observation of TT Ari, X-ray energy spectra in different orbital phases and power spectra of the intensity time series are presented. Spectral fits show that the source gets brighter during the observation. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Bayka , A. Esendemir , U. Kiziloglu , M. A. Alpar , H. Ogelman , N. Ercan , G. Ikis

Ground- and space-based observations of solar flares from radio wavelengths to gamma-rays have produced considerable insights but raised several unsolved controversies. The last unexplored wavelength frontier for solar flares is in the…

The X-ray spectra of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) often exhibit an excess of emission above the primary power-law at energies <~ $2$ keV. Two models for the origin of this `soft excess' are ionized relativistic reflection from the inner…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 Xin Xiang , D. R. Ballantyne , S. Bianchi , A. De Rosa , G. Matt , R. Middei , P. -O. Petrucci , A. Rozanska , F. Ursini

We investigate the morphology and temporal variability of a quiet Sun network region in different solar layers. The emission in several EUV spectral lines through both raster and slot time series, recorded by EIS/Hinode is studied along…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-26 Ioannis Kontogiannis , Costis Gontikakis , Georgia Tsiropoula , Kostas Tziotziou

The soft excess is a significant emission component in the Soft (<1 keV) X-ray spectra of many AGN. It has been explained by disk reflection, a warm corona and other models. Understanding its origin is crucial for the energy budget of AGN…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-20 A. Zoghbi , J. M. Miller

We report on the results of the Sun in Time multi-wavelength program (X-rays to the UV) of solar analogs with ages covering ~0.1-7 Gyr. The chief science goals are to study the solar magnetic dynamo and to determine the radiative and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. Ribas , E. F. Guinan , M. Guedel , M. Audard

Solar flares, with energies ranging over several orders of magnitude, result from impulsive release of energy due to magnetic reconnection in the corona. Barring a handful, almost all microflares observed in X-rays are associated with the…

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

The ROSAT PSPC pulse height spectrum of the peculiar He-rich hot white dwarf KPD 0005+5106 provided a great surprise when first analysed by Fleming, Werner & Barstow (1993). It defied the best non-LTE modelling attempts in terms of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jeremy J. Drake , Klaus Werner

We present the first survey of quiet Sun features observed in hard X-rays (HXRs), using the the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope ARray (NuSTAR), a HXR focusing optics telescope. The recent solar minimum combined with NuSTAR's high…

Solar energetic particles (SEPs) are an important product of solar activity. They are connected to solar active regions and flares, coronal mass ejections (CMEs), EUV waves, shocks, Type II and III radio emissions, and X-ray bursts. These…

Small-scale transient phenomena in the quiet Sun are believed to play an important role in coronal heating and solar wind generation. One of them named as "X-ray jet" is the subject of our study. We indent to investigate the dynamics,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. S. Madjarska

The dynamics of regions of the solar corona are investigated using Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) 171\AA\ and 193\AA\ data. The coronal emission from the quiet Sun, coronal loop footprints, coronal moss, and from above a sunspot is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Jack Ireland , R. T. James McAteer , Andrew R. Inglis

Coronal heating is a big question for modern astronomy. Daily measurement of 985 solar spectral irradiances (SSIs) at the spectral intervals 1-39 nm and 116-2416 nm during March 1 2003 to October 28 2017 is utilized to investigate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 KJ Li , JC Xu , ZQ Yin , W Feng

Solar radio spikes are short duration and narrow bandwidth fine structures in dynamic spectra observed from GHz to tens of MHz range. Their very short duration and narrow frequency bandwidth are indicative of sub-second small-scale energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-31 Daniel L. Clarkson , Eduard P. Kontar , Mykola Gordovskyy , Nicolina Chrysaphi , Nicole Vilmer