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The European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta mission has returned a vast data set of measurements of the inner gas coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. These measurements have been used by different groups to determine the distribution of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 Raphael Marschall , Ying Liao , Nicolas Thomas , Jong-Shinn Wu

The hydrogen Lyman lines ( 91.2 nm < lambda < 121.6 nm) are significant contributors to the radiative losses of the solar chromosphere, and are enhanced during flares. We have shown previously that the Lyman lines observed by the Extreme…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Stephen A Brown , Lyndsay Fletcher , Graham S Kerr , Nicolas Labrosse , Adam F Kowalski , Jaime De La Cruz Rodríguez

We have been using the 0.76-m Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT) at Lick Observatory to optically monitor a sample of 157 blazars that are bright in gamma rays, being detected with high significance ($\ge 10\sigma$) in one year by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-27 Daniel P. Cohen , Roger W. Romani , Alexei V. Filippenko , S. Bradley Cenko , Benoit Lott , WeiKang Zheng , Weidong Li

Since its launch in 2010, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has provided continuous, high-cadence, multi-wavelength observations of the Sun, capturing thousands of solar flares and offering new insights into coronal dynamics. Among the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-18 Harry J. Greatorex , Aisling N. O'Hare , Susanna Bekker , Ryan J. Campbell , Daniel C. Keane , Ryan O. Milligan

We present observations of an eruptive solar flare on 2016 January 6 that occurred behind the solar limb from the perspective of the Earth, but was well observed by STEREO and the Solar Extreme Ultraviolet Monitor on the Mars Atmosphere and…

The discovery of hard X-ray sources near the top of a flaring loop by the HXT instrument on board the YOHKOH satellite represents a significant progress towards the understanding of the basic processes driving solar flares. In this paper we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Vahe' Petrosian , Timothy Q. Donaghy , James M. McTiernan

It is generally accepted that densities of quiet sun and active region plasma are sufficiently low to justify the optically thin approximation, and it is commonly used in the analysis of line emissions from plasma in the solar corona.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 Edward Thiemann , Phillip Chamberlin , Francis Eparvier , Luke Epp

Despite being the most prominent emission line in the solar spectrum, there has been a notable lack of studies devoted to variations in Ly$\alpha$ emission during solar flares in recent years. However, the few examples that do exist have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-02 Ryan O. Milligan , Phillip C. Chamberlin

We search through $\gamma$-ray data obtained with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope and find 24 blazars (or candidates) that have a single clear flare event in their 9.5 year long-term light curves.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Gege Wang , Zhongxiang Wang , Liang Chen , Jianeng Zhou , Yi Xing

We present radio and X-ray observations of an impulsive solar flare that was moderately intense in microwaves, yet showed very meager EUV and X-ray emission. The flare occurred on 2001 Oct 24 and was well-observed at radio wavelengths by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 T. S. Bastian , G. D. Fleishman , D. E. Gary

Context. The first long-term in-situ observation of the plasma environment in the vicinity of a comet, as provided by the European Rosetta spacecraft. Aims. Here we offer characterisation of the solar wind flow near…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-16 E. Behar , J. Lindkvist , H. Nilsson , M. Holmström , G. Stenberg Wieser , R. Ramstad , C. Goetz

We present 2-5 $\mu$m spectroscopic observations of the dust coma of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko obtained with the VIRTIS-H instrument onboard Rosetta during two outbursts that occurred on 2015, 13 September 13.6 h UT and 14 September 18.8 h…

The present work aims at analyzing the nature of millimeter (mm) emission observed during the post-impulsive phase of the solar flare SOL2022-05-04T08:45 (M5.7), detected by the RT-7.5 radio telescope of the Bauman Moscow State Technical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 G. G. Motorina , Yu. T. Tsap , V. V. Smirnova , A. S. Morgachev , A. S. Motorin

This thesis strives to improve our understanding of solar activity, specifically the behaviour of solar flares and coronal mass ejections. An investigation into the hydrodynamic evolution of a confined solar flare was carried out using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-19 Claire L. Raftery

We present Rosetta RPC case study from four events at various radial distance, phase angle and local time from autumn 2015, just after perihelion of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Pulse like (high amplitude, up to minutes in time)…

We use measurements from the Rosetta plasma consortium (RPC) Langmuir probe (LAP) and mutual impedance probe (MIP) to study the spatial distribution of low-energy plasma in the near-nucleus coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The…

Observational evidence for gentle chromospheric evaporation during the impulsive phase of a C9.1 solar flare is presented using data from the Reuven Ramaty High-Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager and the Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer on…

We statistically study the relationship between the Lyman-alpha (\lya) and 1--8 \AA\ soft X-ray (SXR) emissions from 658 M- and X-class solar flares observed by the {\em Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite} during 2006--2016.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Zhichen Jing , Wuqi Pan , Yukun Yang , Dechao Song , Jun Tian , Y. Li , X. Cheng , Jie Hong , M. D. Ding

Stellar eruptive events, such as flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), can affect planetary habitability by disturbing the stability of their atmospheres. For instance, strong stellar flares and CMEs can trigger atmospheric escape and,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-03 Nuri Park , Evgenya L. Shkolnik , Joe Llama

In previous works we have developed a method to convert solar X-ray data, collected with the Yohkoh/SXT, into templates of stellar coronal observations. Here we apply the method to several solar flares, for comparison with stellar X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 F. Reale , G. Peres , S. Orlando