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The standard flare model, despite its success, is limited in comprehensively explaining the various processes involving nonthermal particles. One such missing ingredient is a detailed understanding of the various processes involved during…

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We investigate accelerated electron energy spectra for different sources in a large flare using simultaneous observations obtained with two instruments, the Nobeyama Radio Heliograph (NoRH) at 17 and 34 GHz, and the Reuven Ramaty High…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. R. Kundu , V. V. Grechnev , S. M. White , E. J. Schmahl , N. S. Meshalkina , L. K. Kashapova

When in situ solar energetic electron (SEE) events are closely associated with nonthermal flares, the escaping electron population is frequently observed to be much smaller than the nonthermal-radiation-emitting population near the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-02 Meiqi Wang , Bin Chen , Mallory Wickline , Sijie Yu , Sam Krucker , Jeongwoo Lee , Haimin Wang

Solar energetic particles in the heliosphere are produced by flaring processes on the Sun or shocks driven by coronal mass ejections. These particles are regularly detected remotely as electromagnetic radiation (X-rays or radio emission),…

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

We carried out detailed analysis of X-ray and radio observations of a simple flare loop that occurred on 12th August 2002, with the impulsive hard X-ray (HXR) light curves dominated by a single pulse. The emission spectra of the early…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 I. N. Sharykin , S. Liu , L. Fletcher

Imaging spectroscopy in X-rays with RHESSI provide the possibility to investigate the spatial evolution of the X-ray emitting electron distribution and therefore to study the transport effects on energetic electrons during solar flares. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 S. Musset , E. P. Kontar , N. Vilmer

This paper studies acceleration processes of background thermal electrons in X-ray binary jets via turbulent stochastic interactions and shock collisions. By considering turbulent magnetized jets mixed with fluctuation magnetic fields and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-29 Jian-Fu Zhang , Zhi-Ren Li , Fu-Yuan Xiang , Ju-Fu Lu

We study the detectability and characterization of electron beams as they leave their acceleration site in the low corona toward interplanetary space through their nonthermal X-ray bremsstrahlung emission. We demonstrate that the largest…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Pascal Saint-Hilaire , Sam Krucker , Steven Christe , Robert P. Lin

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

We investigate electron acceleration resulting from 3D magnetic reconnection between an emerging, twisted magnetic flux rope and a pre-existing weak, open magnetic field. We first follow the rise of an unstable, twisted flux tube with a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-07 G. Baumann , Å. Nordlund

With the elementary energy release events introduced in a previous paper (Liu & Fletcher 2009) we model the chromospheric evaporation in flaring loops. The thick-target hard X-ray (HXR) emission produced by electrons escaping from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Siming Liu , Feiran Han , Lyndsay Fletcher

We present the statistical analysis of 33 flare-related coronal jets, and discuss the link between the jet and the flare properties in these events. We selected jets that were observed between 2010 and 2016 by the Atmospheric Imaging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 Sophie Musset , Mariana Jeunon , Lindsay Glesener

Acceleration and transport of high-energy particles and fluid dynamics of atmospheric plasma are interrelated aspects of solar flares. We present here self-consistently combined Fokker-Planck modeling of particles and hydrodynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 Wei Liu , Vahe Petrosian , John T. Mariska

Solar flares effectively accelerate particles to non-thermal energies. These accelerated electrons are responsible for energy transport and subsequent emissions in HXR, radio, and UV/EUV radiation. Due to the steeply decreasing electron…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-01 Yingjie Luo , Eduard P. Kontar , Debesh Bhattacharjee

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

Quantifying the energy content of accelerated electron beams during solar eruptive events is a key outstanding objective that must be constrained to refine particle acceleration models and understand the electron component of space weather.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-24 Alexander W. James , Hamish A. S. Reid

The hard X-ray (HXR) emission in solar flares comes almost exclusively from a very small part of the flaring region, the footpoints of magnetic loops. Using RHESSI observations of solar flare footpoints, we determine the radial positions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Marina Battaglia , Eduard P. Kontar

Solar flares are explosive releases of magnetic energy stored in the solar corona, driven by magnetic reconnection. These events accelerate electrons, generating hard X-ray emissions and often display Quasi Periodic Pulsations (QPPs) across…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-25 Luiz A. C. A. Schiavo , Natasha L. S. Jeffrey , Gert J. J. Botha , James A. McLaughlin