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The acceleration and transport of energetic electrons during solar flares is one of the outstanding topics in solar physics. Recent X-ray and radio imaging and spectroscopy observations have provided diagnostics of the distribution of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 Xiangliang Kong , Bin Chen , Fan Guo , Chengcai Shen , Xiaocan Li , Jing Ye , Lulu Zhao , Zelong Jiang , Sijie Yu , Yao Chen , Joe Giacalone

We carried out detailed analysis of X-ray and radio observations of a simple flare loop that occurred on 12th August 2002, with the impulsive hard X-ray (HXR) light curves dominated by a single pulse. The emission spectra of the early…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 I. N. Sharykin , S. Liu , L. Fletcher

Solar flares are sudden energy release events in the solar corona, resulting from magnetic reconnection, that accelerates particles and heats the ambient plasma. During a flare, there are often multiple, temporally and spatially separated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Rohit Sharma , Marina Battaglia , Yingjie Luo , Bin Chen , Sijie Yu

We report the first science results from the newly completed Expanded Owens Valley Solar Array (EOVSA), which obtained excellent microwave imaging spectroscopy observations of SOL2017-09-10, a classic partially-occulted solar limb flare…

Context. High energy electrons accelerated during solar flare are abundant in the solar corona and in the interplanetary space. Commonly, the number and the energy of non-thermal electrons at the Sun is estimated using hard X-ray (HXR)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 E. P. Kontar , H. Ratcliffe , N. H. Bian

Even small solar flares can display a surprising level of complexity regarding their morphology and temporal evolution. Many of their properties, such as energy release and electron acceleration can be studied using highly complementary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Marina Battaglia , Rohit Sharma , Yingjie Luo , Bin Chen , Sijie Yu , Säm Krucker

A number of double coronal X-ray sources have been observed during solar flares by RHESSI, where the two sources reside at different sides of the inferred reconnection site. However, where and how are these X-ray-emitting electrons…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Xiangliang Kong , Jing Ye , Bin Chen , Fan Guo , Chengcai Shen , Xiaocan Li , Sijie Yu , Yao Chen , Joe Giacalone

We studied electron spectral indices of nonthermal emissions seen in hard X-rays (HXRs) and in microwaves. We analyzed 12 flares observed by the Hard X-ray Telescope aboard {\it Yohkoh}, Nobeyama Radio Polarimeters (NoRP), and the Nobeyama…

High-energy X-rays and gamma-rays from solar flares were discovered just over fifty years ago. Since that time, the standard for the interpretation of spatially integrated flare X-ray spectra at energies above several tens of keV has been…

We investigate in detail the 21 May 2004 flare using simultaneous observations of the Nobeyama Radioheliograph, Nobeyama Radiopolarimeters, Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) and Solar and Heliospheric Observatory…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Alexey Kuznetsov , Eduard Kontar

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

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

The first self-consistent simulations of electron acceleration during magnetic reconnection in a macroscale system are presented. Consistent with solar flare observations the spectra of energetic electrons take the form of power-laws that…

We investigated the response of the solar atmosphere to non-thermal electron beam heating using the radiative transfer and hydrodynamics modelling code RADYN. The temporal evolution of the parameters that describe the non-thermal electron…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-10 Michael B. Kennedy , Ryan O. Milligan , Joel C. Allred , Mihalis Mathioudakis , Francis P. Keenan

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

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

This paper reports on the re-analysis of solar flares in which the hard X-rays (HXRs) come predominantly from the corona rather than from the more usual chromospheric footpoints. All of the 26 previously analyzed event time intervals, over…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 Brian R. Dennis , Miguel A. Duval-Poo , Michele Piana , Andrew R. Inglis , A. Gordon Emslie , Jingnan Guo , Yan Xu

We present observations of a confined M4.0 flare from NOAA 11302 on 2011 September 26. Observations at high temporal, spatial, and spectral resolution from Solar Dynamics Observatory, Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-05 Upendra Kushwaha , Bhuwan Joshi , Kyung-Suk Cho , Astrid Veronig , Sanjiv Kumar Tiwari , S. K. Mathew

We study the energetics of nonthermal electrons produced in small acceleration episodes in the solar corona. We carried out an extensive survey spanning 2004--2015 and shortlisted 6 impulsive electron events detected at 1 AU that was not…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-20 Tomin James , Prasad Subramanian , Eduard P Kontar

An X1.6 flare occurred in AR 12192 on 2014 October 22 at 14:02 UT and was observed by Hinode, IRIS, SDO, and RHESSI. We analyze a bright kernel which produces a white light (WL) flare with continuum enhancement and a hard X-ray (HXR) peak.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 Kyoung-Sun Lee , Shinsuke Imada , Kyoko Watanabe , Yumi Bamba , David H. Brooks