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This paper is an attempt to understand the physical processes occurring in different layers of solar atmosphere during a solar flare. For a complete understanding of the flare we must analyze multi-wavelength datasets, as emission at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Shirsh Lata Soni , Radhe Shyam Gupta , Adya Prasad Mishra

We present the analyses of intense X-ray flares detected on the active fast rotator AB Dor using observations from the XMM-Newton. A total of 21 flares are detected, and 13 flares are analysed in detail. The total X-ray energy of these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-23 Shweta Didel , Jeewan C. Pandey , A. K. Srivastava , Gurpreet Singh

Numerical models of solar flares typically focus on the behaviour of directly-heated flare models, adopting magnetic field- aligned, plane-parallel methodologies. With high spatial- and spectral-resolution ground-based optical observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Christopher M. J. Osborne , Lyndsay Fletcher

The explanation of the coronal heating problem potentially lies in the existence of nanoflares, numerous small-scale heating events occuring across the whole solar disk. In this paper, we present the first imaging spectroscopy X-ray…

Active region 11029 was a small, highly flare-productive solar active region observed at a time of extremely low solar activity. The region produced only small flares: the largest of the $>70$ Geostationary Observational Environmental…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. S. Wheatland

Recently, a number of peculiar flares have been reported, which demonstrate significant non-thermal particle signatures with a low, if any, thermal emission, that implies close association of the observed emission with the primary energy…

We report solar flare plasma to be multi-thermal in nature based on the theoretical model and study of the energy-dependent timing of thermal emission in ten M-class flares. We employ high-resolution X-ray spectra observed by the Si…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-30 Rajmal Jain , Arun Kumar Awasthi , Arvind Singh Rajpurohit , Markus J. Aschwanden

Solar flares show remarkable variety of the energy partitioning between thermal and nonthermal components. Those with a prominent nonthermal component but only a modest thermal one are particularly well suited to study the direct effect of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-26 Galina G. Motorina , Gregory D. Fleishman , Eduard P. Kontar

We compare time variations of the H$\alpha$ and X-ray emissions observed during the pre-impulsive and impulsive phases of the C1.1-class solar flare on 21 June 2013 with those of plasma parameters and synthesized X-ray emission from a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 R. Falewicz , K. Radziszewski , P. Rudawy , A. Berlicki

We conduct a wide-band X-ray spectral analysis in the energy range of 1.5-100 keV to study the time evolution of the M7.6 class flare of 2016 July 23, with the Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer (MinXSS) CubeSat and the Reuven Ramaty High…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Shunsaku Nagasawa , Tomoko Kawate , Noriyuki Narukage , Tadayuki Takahashi , Amir Caspi , Thomas N. Woods

Ways to give medium- and short-term predictions of solar flares are proposed according to the statistical analysis of events during solar cycle 23. On one hand, the time distribution of both C and M class flares shows two main periods of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-17 Z. Q. Qu

The steep power-law dependence of element abundance enhancements on the mass-to-charge ratios [A/Q] of the ions in impulsive solar energetic-particle (SEP) events causes these enhancements to reflect the temperature-dependent pattern of Q…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-05 Donald V. Reames , Edward W. Cliver , Stephen W. Kahler

Temporary enhancements of the coronal emission measure in a quiet region have been shown to constitute a significant energy input. Here some relatively large events are studied for simultaneous brightenings in transition region lines and in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Sam Krucker , Arnold O. Benz

In this study we present the analysis of six solar flare events that occurred in 2022, using new data from the third-generation Miniature X-Ray Solar Spectrometer (MinXSS), also known as the Dual-zone Aperture X-ray Solar Spectrometer…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-12 Anant Telikicherla , Thomas N. Woods , Bennet D. Schwab

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

Spectroscopic observations covering the wavelength range 3600--4600\AA are presented for a large flare on the late type M dwarf AT Mic (dM4.5e). A procedure to estimate the physical parameters of the flaring plasma has been used which…

Small-scale magnetic reconnection processes, in the form of nanoflares, have become increasingly hypothesized as important mechanisms for the heating of the solar atmosphere, for driving propagating disturbances along magnetic field lines…

In this work we study the correlation between the soft (1.6--12.4 keV, mostly thermal) and the hard (20--40 and 60--80 keV, mostly non-thermal) X-ray emission in solar flares up to the most energetic events, spanning about 4 orders of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Isola , F. Favata , G. Micela , H. S. Hudson

Dynamics of hot chromospheric plasma of solar flares is a key to understanding of mechanisms of flare energy release and particle acceleration. A moderate M1.0 class flare of 12 June, 2014 (SOL2014-06-12T21:12) was simultaneously observed…

The current sheet is an essential feature in solar flares and is the primary site for magnetic reconnetion and energy release. Imaging observations feature a long linear structure above the candle-flame-shaped flare loops, which resembles…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-03 Tingyu Gou , Katharine K. Reeves