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Solar flares often happen after a preflare / preheating phase, which is almost or entirely thermal. In contrast, there are the so-called early impulsive flares that do not show a (significant) preflare heating but instead often show the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Alexandra L. Lysenko , Alexander T. Altyntsev , Natalia S. Meshalkina , Dmitriy Zhdanov , Gregory D. Fleishman

Microflares have been considered to be among the major energy input sources to form active solar corona. To investigate the response of the low atmosphere to events, we conducted an ALMA observation at 3 mm coordinated with IRIS and Hinode…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Toshifumi Shimizu , Masumi Shimojo , Masashi Abe

Context: On 2022 May 4, an M5.7 flare erupted in the active region NOAA 13004, which was the target of a coordinated campaign between GREGOR, IRIS, Hinode, and ground-based instruments at the Ond\v{r}ejov observatory. A flare kernel located…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-21 M. García-Rivas , J. Kašparová , A. Berlicki , M. Švanda , J. Dudík , D. Čtvrtečka , M. Zapiór , W. Liu , M. Sobotka , M. Pavelková , G. G. Motorina

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 investigate two microflares of GOES classes A9 and C1 (after background subtraction) observed by STIX onboard Solar Orbiter with exceptionally strong nonthermal emission. We complement the hard X-ray imaging and spectral analysis by STIX…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-12 Jonas Saqri , Astrid M. Veronig , Andrea Francesco Battaglia , Ewan C. M. Dickson , Dale E. Gary , Säm Krucker

We report the observation of an unusual cold, tenuous solar flare, which reveals itself via numerous and prominent non-thermal manifestations, while lacking any noticeable thermal emission signature. RHESSI hard X-rays and 0.1-18 GHz radio…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Gregory D. Fleishman , Eduard P. Kontar , Gelu M. Nita , Dale E. Gary

We present X-ray imaging and spectral analysis of all microflares the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) observed between March 2002 and March 2007, a total of 25,705 events. These microflares are small flares,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-28 I. G. Hannah , S. Christe , S. Krucker , G. J. Hurford , H. S. Hudson , R. P. Lin

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

We present observations of the active M-dwarf binary AT Mic (dM4.5e+dM4.5e) obtained with the orbital observatory AstroSat. During 20 ks of observations, in the far ultraviolet ($130-180$ nm) and soft X-ray ($0.3-7$ keV) spectral ranges, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-29 Alexey A. Kuznetsov , Ruslan R. Karakotov , Kalugodu Chandrashekhar , Dipankar Banerjee

We study the nature of energy release and transfer for two sub-A class solar microflares observed during the second flight of the Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager (FOXSI-2) sounding rocket experiment on 2014 December 11. FOXSI is the…

Solar flares, with energies ranging over several orders of magnitude, result from impulsive release of energy due to magnetic reconnection in the corona. Barring a handful, almost all microflares observed in X-rays are associated with the…

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

Sagittarius A* harbors the supermassive black hole that lies at the dynamical center of our Galaxy. Sagittarius A* spends most of its time in a low luminosity emission state but flares frequently in the infrared and X-ray, increasing up to…

In this paper, we present the results of an analysis of 481 weak solar flares, from A0.01 to the B \textit{GOES} class, that were observed during the period of extremely low solar activity from 2009 April to July. For all flares we measured…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-20 A. S. Kirichenko , S. A. Bogachev

In this work, we studied X-ray source SRGe~J021932.4$-$040154 (SRGe J021932), which we associated with a single X-ray active star of spectral class G2V-G4V and the rotational period $\rm P_{rot} < 9.3$ days. Additional analysis of TESS…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-13 Andrey Mukhin , Roman Krivonos , Ilfan Bikmaev , Mark Gorbachev , Irek Khamitov , Sergey Sazonov , Marat Gilfanov , Rashid Sunyaev

Much evidence suggests that the solar corona is heated impulsively, meaning that nanoflares may be ubiquitous in quiet and active regions (ARs). Hard X-ray (HXR) observations with unprecedented sensitivity $>$3~keV are now enabled by…

An important question in solar physics is whether solar microflares, the smallest currently observable flare events in X-rays, possess the same energetic properties as large flares. Recent surveys have suggested that microflares may be less…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 A. R. Inglis , S. Christe

Solar flares are complex phenomena emitting all types of electromagnetic radiation, and accelerating particles on timescales of minutes, converting magnetic energy to thermal, radiative, and kinetic energy through magnetic reconnections. As…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-01 Crisel Suarez , Christopher S. Moore

We present the first survey of quiet Sun features observed in hard X-rays (HXRs), using the the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope ARray (NuSTAR), a HXR focusing optics telescope. The recent solar minimum combined with NuSTAR's high…