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Particle acceleration is one of the most significant features that are ubiquitous among space and cosmic plasmas. It is most prominent during flares in the case of the Sun, with which huge amount of electromagnetic radiation and high-energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-15 Noriyuki Narukage , Masumi Shimojo , Taro Sakao

The X-Ray Telescope (XRT) onboard the Hinode satellite is an X-ray imager that observes the solar corona with the capability of diagnosing coronal temperatures from less than 1 MK to more than 10 MK. To make full use of this capability,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-18 Noriyuki Narukage , Taro Sakao , Ryouhei Kano , Masumi Shimojo , Amy Winebarger , Mark Weber , Kathy K Reeves

Anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs) and soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs) are recognized as the most promising magnetar candidates, as indicated by their energetic bursts and rapid spin-downs. It is expected that the strong magnetic field leaves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Shan-Shan Weng , Ersin Gogus , Tolga Guver , Lin Lin

Using a model of particle acceleration and transport in solar flares, we investigate the height distribution of coronal electrons by focusing on the energy-dependent pitch-angle scattering. When pitch-angle scattering is not included, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Takashi Minoshima , Satoshi Masuda , Yoshizumi Miyoshi , Kanya Kusano

There is considerable observational evidence of implosion of magnetic loop systems inside solar coronal active regions following high energy events like solar flares. In this work, we propose that such collapse can be modeled in three…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Aveek Sarkar , Bhargav Vaidya , Soumitra Hazra , Jishnu Bhattacharyya

The aim of the thesis is the study of properties of solar flares via reconstruction of energy distributions of accelerated/heated electrons, diagnostics of flare plasma based on EUV and X-ray observations, as well as the estimation of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-31 Galina G. Motorina

Simultaneous simulation of HXR and MW emission with the same populations of electrons is still a great challenge for interpretation of observations in real events. In this paper we apply the FP kinetic model of precipitation of electron…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 V. V. Zharkova , N. S. Meshalkina , L. K. Kashapova , A. A. Kuznetsov , A. T. Altyntsev

We report the experimental results of simultaneous measurements on the electron and X-ray spectra from near-critical-density (NCD) double-layer targets irradiated by relativistic femtosecond pulses at the intensity of 5E19 W/cm^2. The…

The simultaneous presence of a strong quasi periodic oscillation of period of about 10 seconds in the optical and X-ray lightcurves of the X-ray transient XTE J1118+480 suggests that a significant fraction of the optical flux originates…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Merloni , T. Di Matteo , A. C. Fabian

Electron acceleration in the solar corona is often associated with flares and the eruption of twisted magnetic structures known as flux ropes. However, the locations and mechanisms of such particle acceleration during the flare and eruption…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Eoin P. Carley , Nicole Vilmer , Peter T. Gallagher

Using {\em RHESSI} hard X-ray imaging spectroscopy observations, we analyze electron flux maps for a number of extended coronal loop flares. For each event, we fit a collisional model with an extended acceleration region to the observed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jingnan Guo , A. Gordon Emslie , Anna Maria Massone , Michele Piana

X-ray and EUV observations are an important diagnostic of various plasma parameters of the solar atmosphere during solar flares. Soft X-ray and EUV observations often show coronal sources near the top of flaring loops, while hard X-ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Marina Battaglia , Eduard P. Kontar

At hard X-ray energies, the bright footpoint emission from solar flare loops often prevents a detailed analysis of the weaker loop-top source morphology due to the limited dynamic range available for X-ray imaging. Here, we study the X1.3…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 Frederic Effenberger , Fatima Rubio da Costa , Vahe Petrosian

(Abridged) We report results from a comprehensive study of the nearby M dwarf Proxima Centauri with the XMM-Newton satellite. We find strongly variable coronal X-ray emission, with flares ranging over a factor of 100 in peak flux. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Guedel , M. Audard , F. Reale , S. L. Skinner , J. L. Linsky

Aims: This work aims to identify the mechanism driving pulsations in hard X-ray (HXR) and microwave emission during solar flares. Here, by using combined HXR and microwave observations from Solar Orbiter/STIX and EOVSA we investigate an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-01 Hannah Collier , Laura A. Hayes , Sijie Yu , Andrea F. Battaglia , William Ashfield , Vanessa Polito , Louise K. Harra , Säm Krucker

We study the chromosphere and corona of the ultra-fast rotator AB Dor A at high temporal and spectral resolution using simultaneous observations with XMM-Newton in the X-rays, VLT/UVES in the optical, and the ATCA in the radio. Our optical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 S. Lalitha , B. Fuhrmeister , U. Wolter , J. H. M. M. Schmitt , D. Engels , M. H. Wieringa

We develop a practical forward fitting method based on the SIMPLEX algorithm with shaking, which allows the derivation of the magnetic field and other parameters along a solar flaring loop using microwave imaging spectroscopy of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Gregory D. Fleishman , Gelu M. Nita , Dale E. Gary

Three-dimensional magnetic topology of solar flare plays a crucial role in understanding its explosive release of magnetic energy in the corona. However, such three-dimensional coronal magnetic field is still elusive in direct observation.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-09 Chaowei Jiang , Peng Zou , Xueshang Feng , Qiang Hu , Aiying Duan , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang , Fengsi Wei

The diagnostics of stellar flaring coronal loops have been so far largely based on the analysis of the decay phase. We derive new diagnostics from the analysis of the rise and peak phase of stellar flares. We release the assumption of full…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Reale

Solar corona is much hotter than lower layers of the solar atmosphere-photosphere and chromosphere. The coronal temperature is up to 1MK in quiet sun areas, while up to several MK in active regions, which implies a key role of magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-24 Gregory D. Fleishman , Alexey A. Kuznetsov , Gelu M. Nita