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The low luminosity, X-ray flaring activity, of the sub-class of high mass X-ray binaries called Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients, has been investigated using XMM-Newton public observations, taking advantage of the products made publicly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-15 L. Sidoli , K. A. Postnov , A. Belfiore , M. Marelli , D. Salvetti , R. Salvaterra , A. De Luca , P. Esposito

Superflares on solar-type stars has been a rapidly developing field ever since the launch of $\it Kepler$. Over the years, there have been several studies investigating the statistics of these explosive events. In this study, we present a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 Lauren Doyle , Gavin Ramsay , J. Gerard Doyle

Short-hard and long-soft gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are two distinct phenomena, but their prompt and afterglow emission show many similarities. This suggests that two different progenitor systems lead to similar physical processes and that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ehud Nakar

Bright, short duration X-ray flares from accreting compact objects produce thin, dust scattering rings that enable dust echo tomography: high precision distance measurements and mapping of the line-of-sight distribution of dust. This work…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-10 Lia Corrales , Brianna S. Mills , Sebastian Heinz , Gerard M. Williger

We present an analysis of intermittent processes occurred during the impulsive phase of the flare SOL2012-03-13, using hard X-rays and submillimeter radio data. Intermittency is a key characteristic in turbulent plasmas and have been a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-22 C. Guillermo Giménez de Castro , Paulo J. A. Simões , Jean-Pierre Raulin , Odilon M. Guimarães

Soft X-ray spectra of ULXs show small deviations from a power-law model, that can be attributed to reprocessing in a fast, ionized outflow, or to thermal emission from a cool disk. If it is thermal emission, the cool peak temperature can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Roberto Soria , Anabela Goncalves , Zdenka Kuncic

(abridged) We describe highlights of the results of two observing campaigns in 2004 to investigate the correlation of flare activity in Sgr A* in different wavelength regimes, using a total of nine ground and space-based telescopes. We…

Flares overlaid on the smooth power-law decay of Swift X-ray afterglows are rather common, appearing in roughly half the observed light curves. They are a manifestation of the late time activity of the inner engine, since their temporal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Davide Lazzati , Brian J. Morsony , Rosalba Perna , Mitchell C. Begelman

Recently, in a few case studies we demonstrated that gyrosynchrotron microwave emission can be detected directly from the acceleration region when the trapped electron component is insignificant. For the statistical study reported here, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 Gregory D. Fleishman , Gelu M. Nita , Eduard P. Kontar , Dale E. Gary

Inspired by the excess soft X-ray emission recently detected in Green Pea galaxies, we model the soft X-ray emission (0.5 - 2.0 keV) of hot gas from star cluster winds. By combining individual star clusters, we estimate the soft X-ray…

The SphinX X-ray spectrophotometer on the CORONAS-PHOTON spacecraft measured soft X-ray emission in the 1-15 keV energy range during the deep solar minimum of 2009 with a sensitivity much greater than GOES. Several intervals are identified…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 J. Sylwester , M. Kowalinski , S. Gburek , M. Siarkowski , S. Kuzin , F. Farnik , F. Reale , K. J. H. Phillips , J. Bakala , M. Gryciuk , P. Podgorski , B. Sylwester

Recent supernovae (SNe) observations have motivated renewed interest in SN shock breakouts from stars surrounded by thick winds. In such events the interaction with the wind powers the observed luminosity, and predictions include observable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-10-31 Gilad Svirski , Ehud Nakar , Re'em Sari

In this paper, we discuss the temperature distribution and evolution of a microflare, simultaneously observed by Hinode XRT, EIS, and SDO AIA. We find using EIS lines that during peak emission the distribution is nearly isothermal and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Urmila Mitra-Kraev , Giulio Del Zanna

Analysis of the microwave data, obtained in the 17 GHz channel of the Nobeyama Radioheliograph during the M1.6 flare on 4th Nov 2010, revealed the presence of 11.8-min oscillations of the emitting plasma density. The oscilla- tions decayed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-11 Sujin Kim , V. M. Nakariakov , K. Shibasaki

We report high-resolution observations at mid-infrared wavelengths of a minor solar flare, SOL2014-09-24T17T17:50 (C7.0), using Quantum Well Infrared Photodetector (QWIP) cameras at an auxiliary of the McMath-Pierce telescope. The flare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 M Penn , S Krucker , H Hudson , M Jhabvala , D Jennings , A Lunsford , P Kaufmann

In-orbit experience has shown that soft protons are funneled more efficiently through focusing Wolter-type optics of X-ray observatories than simulations predicted. These protons can degrade the performance of solid-state X-ray detectors…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-07 S. Diebold , C. Tenzer , E. Perinati , A. Santangelo , M. Freyberg , P. Friedrich , J. Jochum

Context. We present an analysis of a GOES M1.8 flare with excellent observational coverage in UV, EUV, and X-ray, including observations from the instruments IRIS, SDO with AIA, Hinode/EIS, Hinode/XRT, and Solar Orbiter with the…

The absolute fluxes of the cosmic-ray antiprotons at solar minimum are measured in the energy range 0.18 to 1.4 GeV, based on 43 events unambiguously detected in BESS '95 data. The resultant energy spectrum appears to be flat below 1 GeV,…

Most theoretical investigations of particle acceleration during solar flares cannot be applied to observations for detailed study of the time evolution. We propose a phenomenological model for turbulence evolution and stochastic particle…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-10 Siming Liu , Lyndsay Fletcher

We present an overview of solar flares and associated phenomena, drawing upon a wide range of observational data primarily from the RHESSI era. Following an introductory discussion and overview of the status of observational capabilities,…