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The extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and X-ray radiation emitted during solar flares has been shown to significantly increase the electron density of the Earth's ionosphere. During flares, quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) in X-ray flux originating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-11 Aisling N. O'Hare , Susanna Bekker , Laura A. Hayes , Ryan O. Milligan

Solar flares significantly impact the conditions of the Earth's ionosphere. In particular, the sudden increase in X-ray flux during a flare penetrates down to the lowest-lying D-region and dominates ionization at these altitudes (60-100…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Laura A. Hayes , Oscar S. D. O'Hara , Sophie A. Murray , Peter T. Gallagher

X-ray and EUV solar flare emission cause increases in the Earth's dayside ionospheric electron density. While the response of the lower ionosphere to X-rays is well studied, the delay between EUV flare emission and the response of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-06 Aisling N. O'Hare , Susanna Bekker , Harry J. Greatorex , Ryan O. Milligan

Earth's ionosphere is a perpetual detector of ionizing radiation received from celestial objects, particularly the Sun. Solar ionizing radiation in the form of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and X-rays during both quiet and active phase of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-22 Sourav Palit , Subhajit Bhattacharyya , Taraknath Bera , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

In this paper, we study the influence of solar flares on electron concentration in the terrestrial ionospheric D-region by analyzing the amplitude and phase time variations of very low frequency (VLF) radio waves emitted by DHO transmitter…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-20 A. Nina , V. Cadez , V. Sreckovic , D. Sulic

Variations in X-ray and EUV irradiance during solar flares lead to a noticeable increase in the electron concentration in the illuminated part of the Earth's ionosphere. Due to the large amount of experimental data accumulated by Global…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-22 Susanna Bekker , Ryan Milligan , Ilya Ryakhovsky

An analysis of D-region electron density height profile variations, induced by four isolated solar X-ray flares during period from September 2005 to December 2006, based on the amplitude and the phase delay perturbation of 22.1 kHz signal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-19 Aleksandra Kolarski , Davorka Grubor

A method for real-time solar flare detection and characterization using ground-based Very Low Frequency (VLF, 15-45 kHz) data is presented. The D-region, the ionosphere's lowest region, is monitored by VLF waves propagating in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 Pauline Teysseyre , Carine Briand , Morris Cohen

Studies in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and X-ray ranges of the solar spectrum are important due to the active role of radiation of these ranges in the formation of the Earth's ionosphere. Photons of the EUV range are completely absorbed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-24 E. A. Bruevich , G. V. Yakunina

During a solar flare, the fluxes in various lines and continua of the solar spectrum increase, leading to enhanced ionization of the illuminated part of the Earth's ionosphere and an increase in the total electron content (TEC). It has been…

Space Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 S. Z. Bekker , R. O. Milligan , I. A. Ryakhovsky

During solar flares, a considerable portion of the flare atmosphere becomes heated; however, the energy deposition process is still unclear, especially in the lower solar atmosphere. Here, we present spectroscopic and imaging observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Girjesh Gupta , Ananya Rawat , Helen Mason , Robertus Erdélyi

We report multi-wavelength observations of four solar flares on 2014 July 07. We firstly select these flares according to the soft X-ray (SXR) and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) emissions recorded by the Extreme Ultraviolet Variability…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-05 Dong Li , Alexander Warmuth , Lei Lu , Zongjun Ning

Even small solar flares can display a surprising level of complexity regarding their morphology and temporal evolution. Many of their properties, such as energy release and electron acceleration can be studied using highly complementary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Marina Battaglia , Rohit Sharma , Yingjie Luo , Bin Chen , Sijie Yu , Säm Krucker

We use ground-based images of high spatial and temporal resolution to search for evidence of nanoflare activity in the solar chromosphere. Through close examination of more than 10^9 pixels in the immediate vicinity of an active region, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 D. B. Jess , M. Mathioudakis , P. H. Keys

We propose a method for diagnosing the physical conditions in the solar atmosphere using an increase in oscillation amplitudes resulting from minuscule solar flares. As an example, we consider a B2 flare, which caused a sharp short-lived…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Andrei Chelpanov , Nikolai Kobanov

The investigation of the Earth ionosphere both in a quiet and a disturbed states is still desirable. Despite recent progress in its modeling and in estimating the electron concentration along the line of sight by GPS signals, the impact of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 O. M. Ulyanov , A. I. Shevtsova , D. V. Mukha , A. A. Seredkina

Faraday rotation of polarized emission from pulsars measured at radio frequencies provides a powerful tool to investigate the interstellar and interplanetary magnetic fields. However, besides being sensitive to the astrophysical media,…

Solar flare accelerated electrons escaping into the interplanetary space and seen as type III solar radio bursts are often detected near the Earth. Using numerical simulations we consider the evolution of energetic electron spectrum in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-25 Hamish A. S. Reid , Eduard P. Kontar

3-minute oscillations in the chromosphere are attributed to both slow magnetoacoustic waves propagating from the photosphere, and to oscillations generated within the chromosphere itself at its natural frequency as a response to a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-23 Laurel Farris , R. T. James McAteer

A common feature of electromagnetic emission from solar flares is the presence of intensity pulsations that vary as a function of time. Known as quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs), these variations in flux appear to include periodic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 Brendan P. Clarke , Laura A. Hayes , Peter T. Gallagher , Shane A. Maloney , Eoin P. Carley
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