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We investigate gamma-ray emission in the impulsive phase of solar flares and the detectability of non-thermal signatures from protostellar flares. Energetic solar flares emit high-energy gamma rays of GeV energies, but their production…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-08 Shigeo S. Kimura , Shinsuke Takasao , Kengo Tomida

The origin of the near-ultraviolet and optical continuum radiation in flares is critical for understanding particle acceleration and impulsive heating in stellar atmospheres. Radiative-hydrodynamic simulations in 1D have shown that high…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 Adam F. Kowalski , Joel C. Allred

Nanoflares are believed to be key contributors to heating solar non-flaring active regions, though their individual detection remains challenging. This study uses a data-driven field-aligned hydrodynamic model to examine nanoflare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-31 Biswajit Mondal , James A Klimchuk , Amy R. Winebarger , P. S. Athiray , Jiayi Liu

We investigate observational signatures of explosive chromospheric evaporation during a white-light flare (WLF) that occurred on 2022 August 27. Using the moment analysis, bisector techniques, and the Gaussian fitting method, red-shifted…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-29 Dong Li , Chuan Li , Ye Qiu , Shihao Rao , Alexander Warmuth , Frederic Schuller , Haisheng Zhao , Fanpeng Shi , Jun Xu , Zongjun Ning

One of the most important products of solar flares are nonthermal energetic particles which may carry up to 50\% energy releasing in the flaring processes. In radio observations, nonthermal particles generally manifest as spectral fine…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Baolin Tan , Nai-hwa Chen , Ya-hui Yang , Chengming Tan , Satoshi Masuda , Xingyao Chen , H. Misawa

Based on detailed analysis of radio and X-ray observations of a flare on 2002 April 11 augmented by realistic 3D modeling, we have identified a radio emission component produced directly at the flare acceleration region. This acceleration…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Gregory D. Fleishman , Eduard P. Kontar , Gelu M. Nita , Dale E. Gary

Context: Stochastic acceleration is thought to be a key mechanism in the energization of solar flare electrons. Aims: We study whether stochastic acceleration can reproduce the observed soft-hard-soft evolution of the spectral features of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo C. Grigis , Arnold O. Benz

On 2011 September 6, we observed an X2.1-class flare in continuum and H$\alpha$ with a frame rate of about 30~Hz. After processing images of the event by using a speckle-masking image reconstruction, we identified white-light (WL) flare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Tomoko Kawate , Takako T. Ishii , Yoshikazu Nakatani , Kiyoshi Ichimoto , Ayumi Asai , Satoshi Morita , Satoshi Masuda

Observational aspects of solar flares relevant to the acceleration process of electrons and protons are reviewed and it is shown that most of these observations can be explained by the interaction with flare plasma of a power law energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vahe Petrosian

Electrons accelerated by solar flares and observed as type III solar radio bursts are not only a crucial diagnostic tool for understanding electron transport in the inner heliosphere but also a possible early indication of potentially…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-16 Eduard P. Kontar , Francesco Azzollini , Olena Lyubchyk

Solar flares produce hard X-ray emission of which the photon spectrum is often represented by a combination of thermal and power-law distributions. However, the estimates of the number and total energy of non-thermal electrons are sensitive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 M. Oka , S. Ishikawa , P. Saint-Hilaire , S. Krucker , R. P. Lin

I report on the high resolution spectra of the remarkable X9 solar flare of 2024 Oct 03 (SOL2024-10-03T12:08) and evaluate the extent to which nonthermal electron beams that generate dense chromospheric condensations can power very bright…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 Adam F. Kowalski

Two-ribbon brightenings are one of the most remarkable characteristics of an eruptive solar flare and are often used for predicting the occurrence of coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Nevertheless, it was called in question recently whether…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 X. Cheng , Q. Hao , M. D. Ding , K. Liu , P. F. Chen , C. Fang , Y. D. Liu

The impulsive phase of a solar flare marks the epoch of rapid conversion of energy stored in the pre-flare coronal magnetic field. Hard X-ray observations imply that a substantial fraction of flare energy released during the impulsive phase…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Fletcher , H. S. Hudson

Particles are accelerated to very high, non-thermal energies during explosive energy-release phenomena in space, solar, and astrophysical plasma environments. In the case of solar flares, it has been established that magnetic reconnection…

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

The cause of excess spectral line broadening (non-thermal velocity) is not definitively known, but given its rise before and during flaring, the causal processes hold clues to understanding the triggers for the onset of reconnection and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-23 James McKevitt , Robert Jarolim , Sarah Matthews , Deborah Baker , Manuela Temmer , Astrid Veronig , Hamish Reid , Lucie Green

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 present a detailed multi-wavelength study of the M6.2 flare which was associated with a confined eruption of a prominence using TRACE, RHESSI, and NoRH observations. The pre-flare phase of this event is characterized by spectacular…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 Upendra Kushwaha , Bhuwan Joshi , Astrid M. Veronig , Yong-Jae Moon

Solar flare X-ray spectra are typically dominated by thermal bremsstrahlung emission in the soft X-ray ($\lesssim$10 keV) energy range; for hard X-ray energies ($\gtrsim$30 keV), emission is typically non-thermal from beams of electrons.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 James M. McTiernan , Amir Caspi , Harry P. Warren
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