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Quasi-periodic pulsations (QPP) are often observed in X-ray emission from solar flares. To date, it is unclear what their physical origins are. Here, we present a multi-instrument investigation of the nature of QPP during the impulsive and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 Laura A. Hayes , Peter T. Gallagher , Brian R. Dennis , Jack Ireland , Andrew R. Inglis , Daniel F. Ryan

Flare kernels are compact features located in the solar chromosphere that are the sites of rapid heating and plasma upflow during the rise phase of flares. An example is presented from a M1.1 class flare observed on 2011 February 16 07:44…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Peter Young , George Doschek , Harry Warren , Hiro Hara

Three homologous C-class flares and one last M-class flare were observed by both the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and the Hinode EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) in the AR 11429 on March 9, 2012. All the recurrent flares occurred within a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 V. Polito , G. Del Zanna , G. Valori , E. Pariat , H. E. Mason , J. Dudik , M. Janvier

The halo mass-temperature relation for a sample of 216 galaxy clusters, groups, and individual galaxies observed by $Chandra$ X-ray Observatory is presented. Using accurate spectral measurements of their hot atmospheres, we derive the $M-T$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-06 Iurii Babyk , Brian McNamara

Radio and optical observations of the evolution of flare-associated phenomena have shown an initial and rapid burst at 0.4 THz only followed subsequently by a localized chromospheric heating producing an H{\alpha} brightening with later…

During solar flares plasma is typically heated to very high temperatures, and the resulting redistribution of energy via thermal conduction is a primary mechanism transporting energy throughout the flaring solar atmosphere. The thermal flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-01 Joel C. Allred , Graham S. Kerr , A. Gordon Emslie

Large solar flares (GOES M-class or higher) are usually associated with eruptions of material. However, when considering flare irradiance enhancements and dynamics such as chromospheric evaporation, potential contributions from erupted…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-18 Luke Majury , Marie Dominique , Ryan Milligan , Dana-Camelia Talpeanu , Ingolf Dammasch , David Berghmans

Aims The possible influence of solar superflares on the near-Earth space radiation environment are assessed through the investigation of scaling laws between the peak proton flux and fluence of Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) events with the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Athanasios Papaioannou , Konstantin Herbst , Tobias Ramm , Edward W. Cliver , David Lario , Astrid M. Veronig

In a solar flare, a large fraction of the magnetic energy released is converted rapidly to the kinetic energy of non-thermal particles and bulk plasma motion. This will likely result in non-equilibrium particle distributions and turbulent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Natasha L. S. Jeffrey , Lyndsay Fletcher , Nicolas Labrosse

In this study we test 30 variants of 5 physical scaling laws that describe different aspects of solar flares. We express scaling laws in terms of the magnetic potential field energy $E_p$, the mean potential field strength $B_p$, the free…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-04 Markus J. Aschwanden

We analyze 19 bright variable X-ray sources detected in the XMM-Newton Extended Survey of the Taurus Molecular Cloud (XEST), in order to characterize the variations with time of their coronal properties and to derive informations on the…

Extending previous studies of nonthermal electron transport in solar flares which include the effects of collisional energy diffusion and thermalization of fast electrons, we present an analytic method to infer more accurate estimates of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 E. P. Kontar , N. L. S. Jeffrey , A. G. Emslie , N. H. Bian

Solar small scale microwave bursts (SMBs), including microwave dot, spike, and narrow band type III bursts, are characterized with very short timescales, narrow frequency bandwidth, and very high brightness temperatures. Based on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Baolin Tan

Cool stars are known to produce flares probably as a result of magnetic reconnection in their outer atmospheres. We present simultaneous XMM-Newton optical V band and X-ray observations of the M8 dwarf LP412-31. During the observation a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Stelzer , J. H. M. M. Schmitt , G. Micela , C. Liefke

Microflares have been considered to be among the major energy input sources to form active solar corona. To investigate the response of the low atmosphere to events, we conducted an ALMA observation at 3 mm coordinated with IRIS and Hinode…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Toshifumi Shimizu , Masumi Shimojo , Masashi Abe

In some flares the thermal component appears much earlier than the nonthermal component in X-ray range. Using sensitive microwave observations we revisit this finding made by Battaglia et al. (2009) based on RHESSI data analysis. We have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Alexander A. Altyntsev , Gregory D. Fleishman , Sergey V. Lesovoi , Natalia S. Meshalkina

All theories that attempt to explain the heating of the high temperature plasma observed in the solar corona are based on short bursts of energy. The intensities and velocities measured in the cores of quiescent active regions, however, can…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Fana M. Mulu-Moore , Amy R. Winebarger , Harry P. Warren

We report the results of a high temporal resolution spectroscopic monitoring of the flare star AD Leo. During 4 nights, more than 600 spectra were taken in the optical range using the Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) and the Intermediate…

Observations of solar flares with RHESSI have shown X-ray sources traveling along flaring loops, from the corona down to the chromosphere and back up. The 28 November 2002 C1.1 flare, first observed with RHESSI by Sui et al. 2006 and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Jeffrey W. Reep , Stephen J. Bradshaw , Gordon D. Holman

We study the spectral and temporal behavior of X-ray flares from the active M-dwarf EV Lac in 200 ks of exposure with the Chandra/HETGS. We derive flare parameters by fitting an empirical function which characterizes the amplitude, shape,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 David P. Huenemoerder , Norbert S. Schulz , Paola Testa , Jeremy J. Drake , Rachel A. Osten , Fabio Reale