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Impulsive nanoflares are expected to transiently heat the plasma confined in coronal loops to temperatures of the order of 10 MK. Such hot plasma is hardly detected in quiet and active regions, outside flares. During rapid and short heat…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fabio Reale , Salvatore Orlando

A primary characteristic of solar flares is the efficient acceleration of electrons to nonthermal deka-keV energies. While hard X-Ray (HXR) observation of bremsstrahlung emission serves as the key diagnostic of these electrons. In this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-11 Debesh Bhattacharjee , Eduard P. Kontar , Yingjie Luo

Solar flares are known to be prolific electron accelerators, yet identifying the mechanism(s) for such efficient electron acceleration in solar flare (and similar astrophysical settings) presents a major challenge. This is due in part to a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-18 Eduard P. Kontar , A. Gordon Emslie , Galina G. Motorina , Brian R. Dennis

Where particle acceleration and plasma heating take place in relation to magnetic reconnection is a fundamental question for solar flares. We report analysis of an M7.7 flare on 2012 July 19 observed by SDO/AIA and RHESSI. Bi-directional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-04 Wei Liu , Qingrong Chen , Vahe' Petrosian

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 observe the motion of cool and hot plasma in a multi-stranded post flare loop system that evolved in the decay phase of a two ribbon M1.0 class flare in AR 11093 on 7 August 2010 using SDO/AIA 304 \AA\ and 171 \AA\ filters. The moving…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Abhishek K. Srivastava , K. Murawski

A popular scenario for electron acceleration in solar flares is transit-time damping of low-frequency MHD waves excited by reconnection and its outflows. The scenario requires several processes in sequence to yield energetic electrons of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Arnold O. Benz , Pascal Saint-Hilaire

We investigate heating and acceleration of protons from a thermal gas with a generic diffusion and acceleration model, and subject to Coulomb scattering and energy loss, as was carried out in Petrosian & East (2008) for electrons. As…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-26 Vahé Petrosian , Byungwoo Kang

We present the study of SOL2015-03-15 M1.2 flare, revealing acceleration of electrons and plasma heating in the sheared twisted magnetic structure in the polarity inversion line (PIL). The scope is to make the analysis of nonthermal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 I. N. Sharykin , I. V. Zimovets , I. I. Myshyakov , N. S. Meshalkina

Plasma turbulence is thought to be associated with various physical processes involved in solar flares, including magnetic reconnection, particle acceleration and transport. Using Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager ({\it RHESSI})…

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

We investigate the effects of acceleration during non-linear electron-beam relaxation in magnetized plasma in the case of electron transport in solar flares. The evolution of electron distribution functions is computed using a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 M. Karlicky , E. P. Kontar

Quasi-periodic oscillations of the hard X-ray (HXR) emission of the large flare of 2 November 1991 have been investigated using HXR light curves and soft X-ray and HXR images recorded by the {\sl Yohkoh} X-ray telescopes. The results of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jerzy Jakimiec , Michal Tomczak

A large arcade flare of 2 March 1993 has been investigated using X-ray observations recorded by the {\sl Yohkoh} and GOES satellites and the {\sl Compton Gamma Ray Observatory}. We analyzed quasi-periodicity of the hard-X-ray (HXR) pulses…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Jerzy Jakimiec , Michal Tomczak

Non-potential magnetic energy promptly released in solar flares is converted to other forms of energy. This may include nonthermal energy of flare-accelerated particles, thermal energy of heated flaring plasma, and kinetic energy of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-09 Gregory D. Fleishman , Lucia Kleint , Galina G. Motorina , Gelu M. Nita , Eduard P. Kontar

The excess temperature of the solar corona over the photosphere poses a challenge. Multiple energetic events contribute to maintaining the corona at such high temperatures. The energy released in different events can vary across several…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-21 Abhishek Rajhans

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

Finite thermal velocity modifications to electron slowing-down rates may be important for the deduction of solar flare total electron energy. Here we treat both slowing-down and velocity diffusion of electrons in the corona at flare…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ross K. Galloway , Alexander L. MacKinnon , Eduard P. Kontar , Per Helander

We report the observation of an unusual cold, tenuous solar flare, which reveals itself via numerous and prominent non-thermal manifestations, while lacking any noticeable thermal emission signature. RHESSI hard X-rays and 0.1-18 GHz radio…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Gregory D. Fleishman , Eduard P. Kontar , Gelu M. Nita , Dale E. Gary

Context. Slow waves in solar coronal loops are strongly damped. The current theory of damping by thermal conduction cannot explain some observational features.\n Aims. We investigate the propagation of slow waves in a coronal loop built up…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-19 Tom Van Doorsselaere , S. Krishna Prasad , Vaibhav Pant , Dipankar Banerjee , Alan Hood

The analysis of a hot loop oscillation event using SOHO/SUMER, GOES/SXI, and RHESSI observations is presented. Damped Doppler shift oscillations were detected in the Fe XIX line by SUMER, and interpreted as a fundamental standing slow mode.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-20 Tongjiang Wang , Wei Liu , Leon Ofman , Joseph M. Davila