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Solar flares are powerful particle accelerators, and in the accepted standard flare model most of the flare energy is transported from a coronal energy-release region by accelerated electrons which stop collisionally in the chromosphere,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-18 Paulo J. A. Simões , Lyndsay Fletcher , Hugh S. Hudson , Graham S. Kerr , Matt Penn , Karla F. Lopez

A major open issue concerning the active Sun is the effectiveness with which magnetic reconnection accelerates electrons in flares. A paper published by {\em{Nature}} in 2022 used microwave observations to conclude that the Sun is an almost…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-10 Anna Volpara , Paolo Massa , Michele Piana , Anna Maria Massone , A Gordon Emslie

One of the most prominent sources for energetic particles in our solar system are huge eruptions of magnetised plasma from the Sun called coronal mass ejections (CMEs), which usually drive shocks that accelerate charged particles up to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-13 D. E. Morosan , J. Pomoell , C. Palmroos , N. Dresing , E. Asvestari , R. Vainio , E. K. J. Kilpua , J. Gieseler , A. Kumari , I. C. Jebaraj

We study the non-thermal emissions in a solar flare occurring on 2003 May 29 by using RHESSI hard X-ray (HXR) and Nobeyama microwave observations. This flare shows several typical behaviors of the HXR and microwave emissions: time delay of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Minoshima , T. Yokoyama , N. Mitani

RHESSI measurements relevant to the fundamental processes of energy release and particle acceleration in flares are summarized. RHESSI's precise measurements of hard X-ray continuum spectra enable model-independent deconvolution to obtain…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-11 R. P. Lin

The interrelation of hard X-ray (HXR) emitting sources and the underlying physics of electron acceleration and transport presents one of the major questions in high-energy solar flare physics. Spatially resolved observations of solar flares…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Paulo J. A. Simões , Eduard P. Kontar

The model of stochastic acceleration of particles by turbulence has been successful in explaining many observed features of solar flares. Here we demonstrate a new method to obtain the accelerated electron spectrum and important…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Vahe Petrosian , Qingrong Chen

Solar flare electron acceleration is an extremely efficient process, but the method of acceleration is not well constrained. Two of the essential diagnostics: electron anisotropy (velocity angle to the guiding magnetic field) and the high…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-21 Natasha L. S. Jeffrey , Pascal Saint-Hilaire , Eduard P. Kontar

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

Recent observations and simulations indicate that solar flares undergo extremely complex three-dimensional (3D) evolution, making 3D particle transport models essential for understanding electron acceleration and interpreting flare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-19 Xiaocan Li , Chengcai Shen , Xiaoyan Xie , Fan Guo , Bin Chen , Ivan Oparin , Yuqian Wei , Sijie Yu , Jeongbhin Seo

The aim of the present paper is to use quasi-periodic oscillations in hard X-rays (HXRs) of solar flares as a diagnostic tool for investigation of impulsive electron acceleration. We have selected a number of flares which showed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Jakimiec , M. Tomczak

The X8.2-class limb flare on September 10, 2017 is among the best studied solar flare events owing to its great similarity to the standard flare model and the broad coverage by multiple spacecraft and ground-based observations. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-29 Xiaocan Li , Fan Guo , Bin Chen , Chengcai Shen , Lindsay Glesener

Context: Solar flares release a large fraction of their energy into non-thermal electrons, but it is not clear where and how. Bremsstrahlung X-rays are observed from the corona and chromosphere. Aims: We aim to characterize the acceleration…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Marina Battaglia , Arnold O. Benz

Flares close to the solar limb, where the footpoints are occulted, can reveal the spectrum and structure of the coronal loop-top source in X-rays. We aim at studying the properties of the corresponding energetic electrons near their…

The collisional thick target model (CTTM) of solar hard X-ray (HXR) bursts has become an almost 'Standard Model' of flare impulsive phase energy transport and radiation. However, it faces various problems in the light of recent data,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 J. C. Brown , R. Turkmani , E. P. Kontar , A. L. MacKinnon , L. Vlahos

Previous studies have shown that the energy release mechanism of some solar flares follow the Standard magnetic-reconnection model, but the detailed properties of high-energy electrons produced in the flare are still not well understood. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 Natsuha Kuroda , Haimin Wang , Dale E. Gary

The acceleration of protons and electrons to high (sometimes GeV/nucleon) energies by solar phenomena is a key component of space weather. These solar energetic particle (SEP) events can damage spacecraft and communications, as well as…

Magnetic reconnection is believed to be the prime mechanism to trigger solar flares and accelerate electrons up to energies of MeV. In the classical two-dimensional reconnection model, the separation motion of chromospheric ribbons…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Chang Liu , Haimin Wang

We study the solar energetic particle (SEP) event observed on 9 October 2021, by multiple spacecraft including Solar Orbiter (SolO). The event was associated with an M1.6 flare, a coronal mass ejection (CME) and a shock wave. During the…

During solar flares a large amount of electrons with energies greater than 20 keV is generated with a production rate of typically $10^{36}$ s$^{-1}$. A part of them is able to propagate along open magnetic field lines through the corona…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-11 F. Breitling , G. Mann , C. Vocks