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We investigate how the magnetic loop length of solar flares relates to the timing between their thermal and nonthermal emission signatures. Our study analyzes a sample of 96 C-, M-, and X-class flares observed between 2013 and 2015 with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 S. M. Perriyil , S. S. Sadangaya , C. G. Giménez de Castro , P. J. A. Simões

Large solar flares and eruptions may influence remote regions through perturbations in the outer-atmospheric magnetic field, leading to causally related events outside of the primary or triggering eruptions that are referred to as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 Carolus J. Schrijver , Paul A. Higgins

Monitoring of the Sun and its activity is a task of growing importance in the frame of space weather research and awareness. Major space weather disturbances at Earth have their origin in energetic outbursts from the Sun: solar flares,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-09 Astrid M. Veronig , Werner Pötzi

The solar radiation focusing effect is related to the specific phenomenon of propagation of the Sun-emitted HF and VHF waves through terrestrial ionosphere. This natural effect is observed with ground-based radio instruments running within…

Solar flares are due to the catastrophic release of magnetic energy in the Sun's corona, resulting in plasma heating, mass motions, particle acceleration, and radiation emitted from radio to $\gamma$-ray wavelengths. They are associated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-16 Dale E. Gary , Timothy S. Bastian , Bin Chen , Gregory D. Fleishman , Lindsay Glesener

In this study we measure physical parameters of the same set of 155 M and X-class solar flares observed with AIA/SDO as analyzed in Paper I, by performing a {\sl differential emission measure (DEM)} analysis to determine the flare peak…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Markus J. Aschwanden , Toshifumi Shimizu

Solar flares release an enormous amount of energy into the corona. A substantial fraction of this energy is transported to the lower atmosphere, which results in chromospheric heating. The mechanisms that transport energy to the lower solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Rahul Yadav , J. de la Cruz Rodríguez , Graham S. Kerr , C. J. Díaz Baso , Jorrit Leenaarts

Solar flare activity in cycle 24 is studied. Satellite observations of x-ray fluxes from GOES-15 and UV emission lines from the SDO/EVE experiment are used. The most powerful flares of cycle 24 in classes X9.3 and X8.2 in September 2017 are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 E. A. Bruevich , V. V. Bruevich

Some 15% of solar flares having a soft X-ray flux above GOES class C5 are reported to lack coherent radio emission in the 100 - 4000 MHz range (type I - V and decimetric emissions). A detailed study of 29 such events reveals that 22 (76%)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Arnold O. Benz , Roman Brajsa , Jasmina Magdalenic

We present a detailed analysis of a superflare on the active M dwarf star AD Leonis. The event presents a rare case of a stellar flare observed simultaneously in X-rays (with XMM-Newton) and in optical (with the Transiting Exoplanet Survey…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 B. Stelzer , M. Caramazza , St. Raetz , C. Argiroffi , M. Coffaro

The Geostationary Orbital Environmental Satellites (GOES) Soft X-ray (SXR) sensors have provided data relating to, inter alia, the time, intensity and duration of solar flares since the 1970s. The GOES SXR Flare List has become the standard…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-08 Bill Swalwell , Silvia Dalla , Stephen Kahler , Stephen M. White , Alan Ling , Rodney Viereck , Astrid Veronig

Solar flare X-ray emission results from rapidly increasing temperatures and emission measures in flaring active region loops. To date, observations from the X-Ray Sensor (XRS) onboard the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-07 Daniel F. Ryan , Ryan O. Milligan , Peter T. Gallagher , Brian R. Dennis , A. Kim Tolbert , Richard A. Schwartz , C. Alex Young

During solar flares a tremendous amount of magnetic energy is released and transported through the Sun's atmosphere and out into the heliosphere. Despite over a century of study, many unresolved questions surrounding solar flares are still…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 Graham S. Kerr

The impact of solar-stellar activity on planetary environments is a topic of great interest within the Sun-Earth system as well as exoplanetary systems. In particular, extreme events such as flares and coronal mass ejections have a profound…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-17 Priyansh Jaswal , Suvadip Sinha , Dibyendu Nandy

The spot evolution on the Sun and solar-type stars is important for understanding the nature of consequential flaring activity. This study statistically investigates the variance of flare occurrence rate through the time evolution of spots…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-23 Takato Tokuno , Kosuke Namekata , Hiroyuki Maehara , Shin Toriumi

Context: Solar flares release a large fraction of their energy into non-thermal electrons, but it is not clear where and how. Bremsstrahlung X-rays are observed from the corona and chromosphere. Aims: We aim to characterize the acceleration…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Marina Battaglia , Arnold O. Benz

The Neupert effect refers to the strong correlation between the soft X-ray (SXR) light curve and the time-integrated hard X-rays (HXR) or microwave flux, which is frequently observed in solar flares. In this article, we therefore utilized…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-04 Dong Li , Hanyang Dong , Wei Chen , Yang Su , Yu Huang , Zongjun Ning

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

We report solar flare plasma to be multi-thermal in nature based on the theoretical model and study of the energy-dependent timing of thermal emission in ten M-class flares. We employ high-resolution X-ray spectra observed by the Si…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-30 Rajmal Jain , Arun Kumar Awasthi , Arvind Singh Rajpurohit , Markus J. Aschwanden