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The bulk of solar flare emission originates from very compact sources located in the lower solar atmosphere and seen in various wavelength ranges: near optical, UV, EUV, soft and hard X-rays, and gamma-ray emission, yet very few spatially…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Marina Battaglia , Eduard P. Kontar

We study the release of energy during the gradual phase of a flare, characterized by faint bursts of non-thermal hard X-ray (HXR) emission associated with decimetric radio spikes and type III radio bursts starting at high frequencies and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 Sophie Musset , Eduard Kontar , Lindsay Glesener , Nicole Vilmer , Abdallah Hamini

We investigate how the magnetic loop length of solar flares relates to the timing between their thermal and nonthermal emission signatures. Our study analyzes a sample of 96 C-, M-, and X-class flares observed between 2013 and 2015 with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 S. M. Perriyil , S. S. Sadangaya , C. G. Giménez de Castro , P. J. A. Simões

This Research Note is in response to the recent paper by S. M. Perriyil et al. (2026). They provide measurements of the time delay (delta t) between the hard X-ray and soft X-ray peak times for 96 flares observed with RHESSI and GOES. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-07 Brian R. Dennis , Hugh Hudson , Joel Allred

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

(abridged) We investigate the long-term evolution of X-ray coronae of solar analogs based on high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy and photometry with XMM-Newton. Six nearby main-sequence G stars with ages between ~0.1 Gyr and \~1.6 Gyr and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Telleschi , M. Guedel , K. Briggs , M. Audard , J. -U. Ness , S. L. Skinner

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 investigate the relationship between the continuum enhancement and the hard X-ray (HXR) emission of a white-light flare on 2002 September 29. By reconstructing the RHESSI HXR images in the impulsive phase, we find two bright conjugate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Q. R. Chen , M. D. Ding

We explore the temporal relationship between microwave/HXR emission and Doppler velocity during the impulsive phase of a solar flare on 2014 October 27 (SOL2014-10-27), which displays a pulse on the light curves in microwave (34 GHz) and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 Dong Li , Zongjun Ning , Yu Huang , Qingmin Zhang

Context. We present an analysis of a GOES M1.8 flare with excellent observational coverage in UV, EUV, and X-ray, including observations from the instruments IRIS, SDO with AIA, Hinode/EIS, Hinode/XRT, and Solar Orbiter with the…

This work investigates the spatial relation between coronal X-ray sources and coherent radio emissions, both generally thought to be signatures of particle acceleration. Two limb events were selected during which the radio emission was well…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Arnold O. Benz , Marina Battaglia , Nicole Vilmer

Solar flare electron acceleration is an efficient process, but its properties (mechanism, location) are not well constrained. Via hard X-ray (HXR) emission, we routinely observe energetic electrons at the Sun, and sometimes we detect…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-09 Ross Pallister , Natasha L. S. Jeffrey

We investigated the three-dimensional (3D) magnetic structures and dynamics responsible for particle acceleration in an X7.1-class flare that occurred on October 1, 2024, in NOAA active region 13842. We combined stereoscopic hard X-ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 Keitarou Matsumoto , Satoshi Inoue , Meiqi Wang , Säm Krucker , Satoshi Masuda , Muriel Zoë Stiefel , Jeongwoo Lee , Bin Chen , Haimin Wang

Nonthermal electrons accelerated in solar flares produce electromagnetic emission in two distinct, highly complementary domains - hard X-rays (HXRs) and microwaves (MWs). This paper reports MW imaging spectroscopy observations from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 Natsuha Kuroda , Gregory D. Fleishman , Dale E. Gary , Gelu M. Nita , Bin Chen , Sijie Yu

We present direct evidence for the detection of the main energy release site in a non-eruptive solar flare, SOL2013-11-09T06:38UT. This GOES C2.7 event was characterised by two flaring ribbons and a compact, bright coronal source located…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-06 Paulo J. A. Simões , David R. Graham , Lyndsay Fletcher

Hinode's observations revealed a very dynamic and complex chromosphere. This require revisiting the assumption that the chromospheric footpoints of solar flares are areas where accelerated particles only lose energy due to collisions.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-04 Rim Turkmani , John Brown

Much evidence suggests that the solar corona is heated impulsively, meaning that nanoflares may be ubiquitous in quiet and active regions (ARs). Hard X-ray (HXR) observations with unprecedented sensitivity $>$3~keV are now enabled by…

The thick-target model predicts that in flare foot points, we should observe lowering of HXR sources' altitude with increasing energy. The foot point of HXR sources result from the direct interaction of non-thermal electron beams with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 T. Mrozek , R. Falewicz , S. Kolomanski , M. Litwicka

The evolution of an X2.7 solar flare, that occurred in a complex $\beta\gamma\delta$ magnetic configuration region on 2003 November 3 is discussed utilizing a multi-wavelength data set. The very first signature of pre-flare coronal activity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bhuwan Joshi , P. K. Manoharan , Astrid M. Veronig , P. Pant , Kavita Pandey

In the standard solar flare scenario, a large number of particles are accelerated in the corona. Nonthermal electrons emit both X-rays and radio waves. Thus, correlated signatures of the acceleration process are predicted at both…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Marina Battaglia , Arnold O. Benz