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With increasing solar activity since 2010, many flares from the backside of the Sun have been observed by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUVI) on either of the twin STEREO spacecraft. Our objective is to estimate their X-ray peak fluxes…

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The SphinX X-ray spectrophotometer on the {\em CORONAS-PHOTON}\/ mission observed the 1~--~15\,keV X-ray spectrum of the spatially integrated solar corona during the deep minimum of 2009, when solar activity was exceptionally low. Its…

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We analyze decay phase observations of the GOES class C6.7 flare SOL2022-08-19T20:31 by the Visible Spectropolarimeter (ViSP) on the National Science Foundation's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST). The data include the first…

Temporary enhancements of the coronal emission measure in a quiet region have been shown to constitute a significant energy input. Here some relatively large events are studied for simultaneous brightenings in transition region lines and in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Sam Krucker , Arnold O. Benz

The study of the localized plasma conditions before the impulsive phase of a solar flare can help us understand the physical processes that occur leading up to the main flare energy release. Here, we present evidence of a hot X-ray onset…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Hugh S. Hudson , Paulo J. A. Simoes , Lyndsay Fletcher , Laura A. Hayes , Iain G. Hannah

Observations in the Mg XII 8.42 AA line onboard the CORONAS-F satellite have revealed compact high temperature objects-hot X-ray points (HXP)-and their major physical parameters were investigated. Time dependencies of temperature, emission…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-25 Anton Reva , Sergey Shestov , Sergey Bogachev , Sergey Kuzin

Flares close to the solar limb, where the footpoints are occulted, can reveal the spectrum and structure of the coronal loop-top source in X-rays. We aim at studying the properties of the corresponding energetic electrons near their…

Imaging spectroscopy, i.e., the generation of spatially resolved count spectra and of cubes of count maps at different energies, is one of the main goals of solar hard X-ray missions based on Fourier imaging. For these telescopes, so far…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-02 Anna Volpara , Alessandro Lupoli , Frank Filbir , Emma Perracchione , Anna Maria Massone , Michele Piana

This review surveys the statistics of solar X-ray flares, emphasising the new views that RHESSI has given us of the weaker events (the microflares). The new data reveal that these microflares strongly resemble more energetic events in most…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-01 I. G. Hannah , H. S. Hudson , M. Battaglia , S. Christe , J. Kasparova , S. Krucker , M. R. Kundu , A. Veronig

We present multi-wavelength observations by Chandrayaan-2/XSM, SDO/AIA and Hinode/XRT of a B-class flare observed on 25th February, 2021, originating from an active region (AR 12804) near the North-West limb. The microflare lasts for approx…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-30 Yamini K. Rao , B. Mondal , Giulio Del Zanna , N. P. S. Mithun , S. V. Vadawale , K. K. Reeves , Helen E. Mason , Anil Bhardwaj

This study investigates the statistical behavior of plasma properties during Hot Onset Precursor Events (HOPEs) of solar flares and evaluates their potential for improving flare nowcasting. Two datasets are analyzed: (a) new Soft X-Ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-08 Anant Telikicherla , Thomas N. Woods , Bennet D. Schwab

The Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer (MinXSS) CubeSat is the first solar science oriented CubeSat mission flown for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, with the main objective of measuring the solar soft X-ray (SXR) flux and a science…

Small flares frequently occur in the quiet Sun. Previous studies have noted that they share many common characteristics with typical solar flares in active regions. However, their similarities and differences are not fully understood,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-03 Yuji Kotani , Takako T. Ishii , Daiki Yamasaki , Kenichi Otsuji , Kiyoshi Ichimoto , Ayumi Asai , Kazunari Shibata

We compare the characteristics of flare-accelerated energetic electrons at the Sun with those injected into interplanetary space. We have identified 17 energetic electron events well-observed with the SEPT instrument aboard STEREO which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 Nina Dresing , A. Warmuth , F. Effenberger , K. -L. Klein , S. Musset , L. Glesener , M. Brüdern

The radio emission during 201 X-ray selected solar flares was surveyed from 100 MHz to 4 GHz with the Phoenix-2 spectrometer of ETH Zurich. The selection includes all RHESSI flares larger than C5.0 jointly observed from launch until June…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Arnold O. Benz , Paolo Grigis , Andre Csillagy , Pascal Saint-Hilaire

(Abridged) Sgr A$^\star$ is the electromagnetic counterpart of the accreting supermassive black hole in the Galactic center. Its emission is variable in the near-infrared (NIR) and X-ray wavelengths on short timescales. The physical origin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-15 Maria Petropoulou , Gabriele Ponti , Giovanni Stel , Apostolos Mastichiadis

The Total Irradiance Monitor (TIM) from NASA's SOlar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) can detect changes in the Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) to a precision of 2 ppm, allowing observations of variations due to the largest X-Class…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-22 Christopher Samuel Moore , Phillip Clyde Chamberlin , Rachel Hock

Recent imaging observations of EUV line emissions have shown evidence for frequent flare-like events in a majority of the pixels in quiet regions of the solar corona. The changes in coronal emission measure indicate impulsive heating of new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Arnold O. Benz , Sam Krucker

Context. We present an analysis of a GOES M1.8 flare with excellent observational coverage in UV, EUV, and X-ray, including observations from the instruments IRIS, SDO with AIA, Hinode/EIS, Hinode/XRT, and Solar Orbiter with the…