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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

In this contribution we present a few selected examples of how the latest generation of space-based instrumentation -- NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Far-Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) -- are finally answering old…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. K. Strickland , T. M. Heckman , E. J. M. Colbert , C. G. Hoopes , K. A. Weaver

We investigated the intermittent energy-releasing processes by analyzing the long-period pulsations during a C2.8 flare on 2023 June 03. The C2.8 flare shows three successive and repetitive pulsations in soft X-ray (SXR) and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-05 Dong Li , Jianping Li , Jinhua Shen , Qiwu Song , Haisheng Ji , Zongjun Ning

Getman et al. (2021) reports the discovery, energetics, frequencies, and effects on environs of $>1000$ X-ray super-flares with X-ray energies $E_X \sim 10^{34}-10^{38}$~erg from pre-main sequence (PMS) stars identified in the $Chandra$…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-03 Konstantin V. Getman , Eric D. Feigelson , Gordon P. Garmire

Solar flares are rapid energy release phenomena that appear as bright ribbons in the chromosphere and high-temperature loops in the corona, respectively. Supra-arcade Downflows (SADs) are plasma voids that first come out above the flare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-21 Z. F. Li , X. Cheng , M. D. Ding , Katharine K. Reeves , DeOndre Kittrell , Mark Weber , David E. McKenzie

The new generations of multiwavelength radioheliographs with high spatial resolution will employ microwave imaging spectropolarimetry to recover flare topology and plasma parameters in the flare sources and along the wave propagation paths.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-27 A. Altyntsev , N. Meshalkina , I. Myshyakov , V. Pal`shin , G. Fleishman

Solar flares are a major driver of hazardous space weather, whose intense electromagnetic emissions and energetic particles can significantly disturb the near-Earth space environment. Therefore, understanding the physical processes during a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-25 Shihan Li , Jinhan Guo , Wensi Wang , Yu Dai , Brigitte Schmieder , Jaroslav DudÍk , Yang Guo , Mingde Ding

Solar flares result from the rapid conversion of stored magnetic energy within the Sun's corona. These energy releases are associated with coronal magnetic loops, which are rooted in dense photospheric plasma and are passively transported…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 M. Berretti , S. Mestici , L. Giovannelli , D. Del Moro , M. Stangalini , F. Giannattasio , F. Berrilli

Solar flares are highly energetic events that happen in the solar atmosphere. They are mostly observed as X-ray or gamma-ray bursts located on the Sun's surface. While they are known to be sites of particle acceleration, the acceleration…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-25 Jonathan Mauro , Gwenhaël de Wasseige

A solar flare is composed of impulsive energy release events by magnetic reconnection, which forms and heats flare loops. Recent studies have revealed a two-phase evolution pattern of UV 1600\AA\ emission at the feet of these loops: a rapid…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-16 Jiong Qiu , Zoe Sturrock , Dana W. Longcope , James A. Klimchuk , Wen-Juan , Liu

Solar observations in the infrared domain can bring important clues on the response of the low solar atmosphere to primary energy released during flares. At present the infrared continuum has been detected at 30 THz (10 $\mu$m) in only a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 G. Trottet , J. -P. Raulin , A. MacKinnon , G. Giménez de Castro , P. J. A. Simões , D. Cabezas , V. de La Luz , M. Luoni , P. Kaufmann

The fan-spine magnetic topology is believed to be responsible for many curious features in solar explosive events. A spine field line links distinct flux domains, but direct observation of such feature has been rare. Here we report a unique…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Xudong Sun , J. Todd Hoeksema , Yang Liu , Guillaume Aulanier , Yingna Su , Iain G. Hannah , Rachel A. Hock

Flares being partially occulted by the solar limb, are the best reservoir of our knowledge about hard X-ray loop-top sources. Recently, the survey of partially occulted flares observed by the RHESSI has been published (Krucker & Lin 2008).…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Tomczak

The disparate nature of thermal-nonthermal energy partition during flares, particularly during weak flares, is still an open issue. Following the Neupert effect, quantifying the relative yield of X-ray emission in different energy bands can…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-06 Arun Kumar Awasthi , Tomasz Mrozek , Sylwester Kołomański , Michalina Litwicka , Marek Stęślicki , Karol Kułaga

We study the magnetic field structures of hard X-ray sources and flare ribbons of the M1.1 flare in active region NOAA 10767 on 2005 May 27. We have found in a nonlinear force-free field extrapolation, over the same polarity inversion line,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Y. Guo , M. D. Ding , B. Schmieder , P. Démoulin , H. Li

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

X-ray spectroscopy of cooling-flow clusters reveal an unexpected deficit of soft X-ray emission lines from gas at ~1/3 of the ambient plasma temperature, across a wide range of X-ray luminosities and virial temperatures. We propose excess…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Peng Oh

We present the study of SOL2015-03-15 M1.2 flare, revealing acceleration of electrons and plasma heating in the sheared twisted magnetic structure in the polarity inversion line (PIL). The scope is to make the analysis of nonthermal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 I. N. Sharykin , I. V. Zimovets , I. I. Myshyakov , N. S. Meshalkina

A characteristic pattern of solar hard X-ray emission, first identified in SOL1969-03-30 by Frost & Dennis (1971), turns out to have a close association with the prolonged high-energy gamma-ray emission originally observed by Forrest et al.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 Hugh S. Hudson

We performed five pointing observations with Suzaku to search for hot gases associated with the junctions of galaxy filaments where no significant diffuse X-ray sources were detected so far. We discovered X-ray sources successfully in all…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Hajime Kawahara , Norio Sekiya , Shin Sasaki , Thierry Sousbie , Noriko Y. Yamasaki