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Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) plasma turbulence is believed to play a vital role in the production of energetic electrons during solar flares and the non-thermal broadening of spectral lines is a key sign of this turbulence. Here, we determine…

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Three-dimensional magnetic topology of solar flare plays a crucial role in understanding its explosive release of magnetic energy in the corona. However, such three-dimensional coronal magnetic field is still elusive in direct observation.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-09 Chaowei Jiang , Peng Zou , Xueshang Feng , Qiang Hu , Aiying Duan , Pingbing Zuo , Yi Wang , Fengsi Wei

It has been noted for a long time that the spectra of observed continuum emissions in many solar flares are consistent with double power laws with a hardening at energies $\sim > $ 300 keV. It is now largely believed that at least in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Gang. Li , XiangLiang Kong , Gary Zank , Yao Chen

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

Flares from the supermassive black hole in our Galaxy, Sagittarius~A$^\star$ (Sgr A$^\star$), are routinely observed over the last decade or so. Despite numerous observational and theoretical efforts, the nature of such flares still remains…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-19 Ya-Ping Li , Feng Yuan , Q. Daniel Wang

Context. On the sun, the magnetic field vector is measured routinely only in the photosphere. By using these photospheric measurements as boundary condition, we developed the magnetohydrostatic (MHS) extrapolation to model the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-20 Xiaoshuai Zhu , Thomas Wiegelmann

We present an ordinary case in the momentum diffusion equation for the electron spectrum evolution and investigate the energy spectra and time dependent properties of flare in Mrk 421 in the frame of a time-dependent one-zone synchrotron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-02 Y. G. Zheng , S. J. Kang , J. Li

In this article, we review some key aspects of a multi-wavelength flare which have essentially contributed to form a standard flare model based on the magnetic reconnection. The emphasis is given on the recent observations taken by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-14 Bhuwan Joshi , Astrid Veronig , P. K. Manoharan , B. V. Somov

The current sheet is an essential feature in solar flares and is the primary site for magnetic reconnetion and energy release. Imaging observations feature a long linear structure above the candle-flame-shaped flare loops, which resembles…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-03 Tingyu Gou , Katharine K. Reeves

We present an overview of solar flares and associated phenomena, drawing upon a wide range of observational data primarily from the RHESSI era. Following an introductory discussion and overview of the status of observational capabilities,…

We address the problem of particle acceleration in solar flares by fast modes which may be excited during the reconnection and undergo cascade and are subjected to damping. We extend the calculations beyond quasilinear approximation and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Huirong Yan , A. Lazarian , V. Petrosian

In the standard model, magnetic reconnection at a vertical current sheet above the flare arcade is key to explaining many aspects of solar eruptions. The supra-arcade region is where the vertical current sheet is supposedly located, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Hanya Pan , Astrid M. Veronig , Rui Liu

Magnetic reconnection plays a crucial role in the energy release process for different kinds of solar eruptions and activities. The rapid solar eruption requires a fast reconnection model. Plasmoid instability in the reconnecting current…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-01 Guanchong Cheng , Lei Ni , Zehao Tang , Yajie Chen , Yuhao Chen , Jialiang Hu , Jun Lin

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

Context. Multi-dimensional solar flare simulations have not yet included detailed analysis of the lower atmospheric responses such as down-flowing chromospheric compressions and chromospheric evaporation processes. Aims. We present an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-02 Malcolm Druett , Wenzhi Ruan , Rony Keppens

Magnetic reconnection is widely believed to be the fundamental process in the solar atmosphere that underlies magnetic energy release and particle acceleration. This process is responsible for the onset of solar flares, coronal mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-17 Pankaj Kumar , Judith T. Karpen , Vasyl Yurchyshyn , C. Richard DeVore , Spiro K. Antiochos

We study processes occurring after a sudden heating of the chromosphere at the flare arcade footpoints which is assumed to be caused by particle beams. For the numerical simulations we adopt a 2-D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model, in which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-01 P. Jelínek , M. Karlický

Using a non-linear Monte-Carlo code we investigate the radiative response of an accretion disk corona system to static homogeneous flares. We model a flare by a rapid (comparable to the light crossing time) energy dissipation in the corona…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Julien Malzac , Elisabeth Jourdain

Recent irradiance measurements from numerous heliophysics and astrophysics missions including SDO, GOES, Kepler, TESS, Chandra, XMM-Newton, and NICER have provided critical input in understanding the physics of the most powerful transient…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-11 Jeffrey W. Reep , Vladimir S. Airapetian

Electromagnetic (radio, visible-light, UV, EUV, X-ray and gamma-ray) emission generated by solar and stellar flares often contains pronounced quasi-periodic pulsations (QPP). Physical mechanisms responsible for the generation of long-period…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 V. M. Nakariakov , A. R. Inglis , I. V. Zimovets , C. Foullon , E. Verwichte , R. Sych , I. N. Myagkova