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Kepler data from G-, K- and M-type stars are used to study conditions that lead to superflares with energies above $10^{34} {\rm erg}$. From the 117,661 stars included, 380 show superflares with a total of 1690 such events. We study whether…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-20 Simon Candelaresi , Andrew Hillier , Hiroyuki Maehara , Axel Brandenburg , Kazunari Shibata

We analyzed high-cadence sit-and-stare observations acquired with the Hinode/EIS spectrometer and HXR measurements acquired with RHESSI during an M-class flare. During the flare impulsive phase, we observe no significant flows in the cooler…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-09 P. Gömöry , A. M. Veronig , Y. Su , M. Temmer , J. K. Thalmann

Multiple-ribbon flares are usually complex in their magnetic topologies and eruption mechanisms. In this paper, we investigate an X2.1 flare (SOL2015-03-11T16:22) that occurred in active region 12297 near the center of the solar disk by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-21 Ye Qiu , Yang Guo , M. D. Ding , Ze Zhong

Plasma turbulence is thought to be associated with various physical processes involved in solar flares, including magnetic reconnection, particle acceleration and transport. Using Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager ({\it RHESSI})…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 E. P. Kontar , I. G. Hannah , N. H. Bian

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

Simultaneous solar flare observations with SDO and RHESSI provide spatially resolved information about hot plasma and energetic particles in flares. RHESSI allows the properties of both hot (> 8 MK) thermal plasma and nonthermal electron…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Marina Battaglia , Eduard P. Kontar

We study flare processes in the solar atmosphere using observational data for a M1-class flare of June 12, 2014, obtained by New Solar Telescope (NST/BBSO) and Helioseismic Magnetic Imager (HMI/SDO). The main goal is to understand triggers…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-17 I. N. Sharykin , V. M. Sadykov , A. G. Kosovichev , S. Vargas-Dominguez , I. V. Zimovets

A new estimation of the total number and energy of the non-thermal electrons produced in the giant ($>\text{X}17$) solar flare on 2003 October 28 is presented based on the analysis of the observations of the hard X-ray (HXR) emission by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 B. A. Nizamov , I. V. Zimovets , D. V. Golovin , A. B. Sanin , M. L. Litvak , V. I. Tretyakov , I. G. Mitrofanov , A. S. Kozyrev

Large solar flares (GOES M-class or higher) are usually associated with eruptions of material. However, when considering flare irradiance enhancements and dynamics such as chromospheric evaporation, potential contributions from erupted…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-18 Luke Majury , Marie Dominique , Ryan Milligan , Dana-Camelia Talpeanu , Ingolf Dammasch , David Berghmans

Solar flares are widely accepted to be powered by magnetic reconnection that involves complex dynamics in various scales. The flare supra-arcade and loop-top region, directly impacted by fast reconnection downflows, contains a wealth of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-27 Tingyu Gou , Katharine K. Reeves

We investigated the intermittent energy-releasing processes by analyzing the long-period pulsations during a C2.8 flare on 2023 June 03. The C2.8 flare shows three successive and repetitive pulsations in soft X-ray (SXR) and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-05 Dong Li , Jianping Li , Jinhua Shen , Qiwu Song , Haisheng Ji , Zongjun Ning

Context. Radiative losses are an indispensable part in the numerical simulation of flares. Detailed calculations could be computationally expensive, especially in the chromosphere. There have been some approximate recipes for chromospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 J. Tian , J. Hong , Y. Li , M. D. Ding

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

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 analysis of narrowband drifting of type III-like structures in radio bursts dynamic spectra allows to obtain unique information about primary energy release mechanisms in solar flares. The SSRT spatially resolved images and a high…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 N. S. Meshalkina , A. T. Altyntsev , D. A. Zhdanov , S. V. Lesovoi , A. A. Kochanov , Yan Yihua , Tan Chengming

Flares are dynamic events which involve rapid changes in coronal magnetic topology end energy release. Even if they may be localized phenomena, the magnetic disturbance at their origin may propagate and be effective in a larger part of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-18 S. Parenti , F. Reale , K. K. Reeves

A popular scenario for electron acceleration in solar flares is transit-time damping of low-frequency MHD waves excited by reconnection and its outflows. The scenario requires several processes in sequence to yield energetic electrons of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Arnold O. Benz , Pascal Saint-Hilaire

We report on radiative hydrodynamic simulations of M dwarf stellar flares and compare the model predictions to observations of several flares. The flares were simulated by calculating the hydrodynamic response of a model M dwarf atmosphere…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Joel C. Allred , Suzanne L. Hawley , William P. Abbett , Mats Carlsson

We study the energy-release process in the confined X1.6 flare that occurred on 22 October 2014 in AR 12192. Magnetic-reconnection rates and reconnection fluxes are derived from three different data sets: space-based data from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 A. M. Veronig , W. Polanec

We present a technique for automatic determination of flare-ribbon separation and the energy released during the course of two-ribbon flares. We have used chromospheric H$\alpha$ filtergrams and photospheric line-of-sight magnetograms to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-08 R. A. Maurya , A. Ambastha