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We study the nature of energy release and transfer for two sub-A class solar microflares observed during the second flight of the Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager (FOXSI-2) sounding rocket experiment on 2014 December 11. FOXSI is the…

We report the discovery of phase shifts between X-ray pulses at different energies in the newly discovered millisecond (ms) X-ray pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658. The results show that low-energy pulses lag high-energy pulses by as much as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Wei Cui , Edward H. Morgan , Lev G. Titarchuk

X-ray flashes are detected in the Wide Field Cameras on BeppoSAX in the energy range 2-25 keV as bright X-ray sources lasting of the order of minutes, but remaining undetected in the Gamma Ray Bursts Monitor on BeppoSAX. They have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 John Heise , Jean in 't Zand , Marc Kippen , Peter Woods

An important question in solar physics is whether solar microflares, the smallest currently observable flare events in X-rays, possess the same energetic properties as large flares. Recent surveys have suggested that microflares may be less…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 A. R. Inglis , S. Christe

Low-energy protons entering the field of view of the XMM-Newton telescope scatter with the X-ray mirror surface and might reach the X-ray detectors on the focal plane. They manifest in the form of a sudden increase in the rates, usually…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-31 T. Mineo , V. Fioretti , S. Lotti , S. Molendi , G. Lanzuisi , M. Cappi , M. Dadina , S. Ettori , F. Gastaldello , R. Amato

Solar flares are complex phenomena emitting all types of electromagnetic radiation, and accelerating particles on timescales of minutes, converting magnetic energy to thermal, radiative, and kinetic energy through magnetic reconnections. As…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-01 Crisel Suarez , Christopher S. Moore

The hard X-ray emission in a solar flare is typically characterized by a number of discrete sources, each with its own spectral, temporal, and spatial variability. Establishing the relationship amongst these sources is critical to determine…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Federica Sciacchitano , Alberto Sorrentino , A Gordon Emslie , Anna Maria Massone , Michele Piana

Time profiles of solar soft X-ray microflares and structure soft X-ray solar corona thermal background are studied on RHESSI data. The observations of 2003 year are analyzed. Decrease fluxe of solar soft X-ray microflares and thermal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-16 I. K. Mirzoeva

We performed the scan of the BATSE DISCLA records inspecting 25-50 keV range to pick up soft GRBs. We applied the same technique as in our previous (Stern et al. 2001) scan in the 50-300 keV range. We scanned about 1.8 year of the data and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ya. Tikhomirova , B. Stern , A. Kozyreva , J. Poutanen

Gamma-ray emitting solar flares observed with Yohkoh were analyzed from a statistical viewpoint. The four-band hard X-ray (15--95 keV) photometric data, taken with the Hard X-ray Telescope onboard Yohkoh, were utilized in combination with…

Solar flares often happen after a preflare / preheating phase, which is almost or entirely thermal. In contrast, there are the so-called early impulsive flares that do not show a (significant) preflare heating but instead often show the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Alexandra L. Lysenko , Alexander T. Altyntsev , Natalia S. Meshalkina , Dmitriy Zhdanov , Gregory D. Fleishman

Recent imaging observations of EUV line emissions have shown evidence for frequent flare-like events in a majority of the pixels in quiet regions of the solar corona. The changes in coronal emission measure indicate impulsive heating of new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Arnold O. Benz , Sam Krucker

We present X-ray imaging spectroscopy of one of the weakest active region (AR) microflares ever studied. The microflare occurred at $\sim$11:04 UT on 2018 September 9 and we studied it using the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope ARray…

The light curves of solar flares in the impulsive phase are complex in general, indicating that multiple physical processes are involved in. With the GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) observations, we find that there…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 HAN , Fei-ran , LIU , Si-ming

A good observation of preflare activities is important for us to understand the origin and triggering mechanism of solar flares, and to predict the occurrence of solar flares. This work presents the characteristics of microwave spectral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Yin Zhang , Baolin Tan , Marian Karlický , Hana Mészárosová , Jing Huang , Chengming Tan , Paulo 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

The study aims to examine the spectral dynamics of the low-frequency, optically thick gyrosynchrotron microwave emission in solar flares to determine the characteristics of the emitting source. We present the high-resolution spectra of a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Shaheda Begum Shaik , Dale E. Gary

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…

We present millimeter, optical, and soft X-ray observations of a stellar flare with an energy squarely in the regime of typical X1 solar flares. The flare was observed from Proxima Cen on 2019 May 6 as part of a larger multi-wavelength…

In this note, we consider radio characteristics of three proton flares that caused discrete enhancements of solar energetic particles (SEPs) near Earth. The analysis confirmed that the flux density and frequency spectrum of microwave…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-02 I. M. Chertok