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(abridged) The heating mechanism at high densities during M dwarf flares is poorly understood. Spectra of M dwarf flares in the optical and near-ultraviolet wavelength regimes have revealed three continuum components during the impulsive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Adam F. Kowalski , Suzanne L. Hawley , Mats Carlsson , Joel C. Allred , Han Uitenbroek , Rachel A. Osten , Gordon Holman

X-ray observations of solar flares routinely reveal an impulsive high-energy and a gradual low-energy emission component, whose relationship is one of the key issues of solar flare study. The gradual and impulsive emission components are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Jingnan Guo , Siming Liu , Lyndsay Fletcher , Eduard P. Kontar

In this paper we analyze the energy budgets of two single-loop solar flares under the assumption that non-thermal electrons are the only source of plasma heating during all phases of both events. The flares were observed by the Ramaty High…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 R. Falewicz , M. Siarkowski , P. Rudawy

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

Hard x-ray spectral breaks are explained in terms of a 1D model with a co-spatial return current. We study 19 flares observed by RHESSI (Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager) with strong spectral breaks at energies around a few…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-08 Meriem Alaoui , Gordon Holman

In this manuscript, a fluid model is utilized to calculate the density of plasma species assuming geometrically symmetric Ar/CF4 Radiofrequency Capacitively Coupled Plasmas. The electrodes are driven by a sinusoidal waefront with an…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 M. G. Elsheikh , Y. Abdella , T. El-Ashram , W. M. Moslem , M. Shihab

The spatial and spectral properties of three solar flare coronal X-ray loops are studied before, during and after the peak X-ray emission. Using observations from the Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI), we deduce the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Natasha L. S. Jeffrey , Eduard P. Kontar

In recent years, there are increasing evidence for a thermal emission component that accompanies the overall non-thermal spectra of the prompt emission phase in GRBs. Both the temperature and flux of the thermal emission show a well defined…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Asaf Pe'er

In some flares the thermal component appears much earlier than the nonthermal component in X-ray range. Using sensitive microwave observations we revisit this finding made by Battaglia et al. (2009) based on RHESSI data analysis. We have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Alexander A. Altyntsev , Gregory D. Fleishman , Sergey V. Lesovoi , Natalia S. Meshalkina

An X1.6 flare occurred in AR 12192 on 2014 October 22 at 14:02 UT and was observed by Hinode, IRIS, SDO, and RHESSI. We analyze a bright kernel which produces a white light (WL) flare with continuum enhancement and a hard X-ray (HXR) peak.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 Kyoung-Sun Lee , Shinsuke Imada , Kyoko Watanabe , Yumi Bamba , David H. Brooks

Magnetic reconnection is the key mechanism for energy release in solar eruptions, where the high-temperature emission is the primary diagnostic for investigating the plasma properties during the reconnection process. Non-thermal broadening…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-15 Chengcai Shen , Vanessa Polito , Katharine K. Reeves , Bin Chen , Sijie Yu , Xiaoyan Xie

Off-limb observations of the solar corona after Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) often show strong, compact, and persistent UV sources behind the eruption. They are primarily observed by the SOHO/UVCS instrument in the "hot" Fe XVIII…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Roberto Susino , Alessandro Bemporad , Säm Krucker

We investigate in detail the 21 May 2004 flare using simultaneous observations of the Nobeyama Radioheliograph, Nobeyama Radiopolarimeters, Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) and Solar and Heliospheric Observatory…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Alexey Kuznetsov , Eduard Kontar

The Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectrocopy Imager (RHESSI) $\gamma$-ray observations of the extraordinary GOES X25 flare SOL2003-10-28T11:10 are revisited to investigate previously reported conclusions that flare-accelerated electrons…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-05 Andrea Francesco Battaglia , Säm Krucker

The time evolution of the spectral index and the non-thermal flux in 24 impulsive solar hard X-ray flares of GOES class M was studied in RHESSI observations. The high spectral resolution allows for a clean separation of thermal and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo C. Grigis , Arnold O. Benz

The discovery of hard X-rays from tops of flaring loops by the HXT of YOHKOH represents a significant progress in the understanding of solar flares. This report describes the properties of 20 limb flares observed by YOHKOH from October 1991…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vahé Petrosian

We explore the energetics and plasma composition in FR II sources using a new simple method of combining shock dynamics and radiation spectrum. The hot spots are identified with the reverse shocked region of jets. With the one-dimensional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Motoki Kino , Fumio Takahara

Deriving a well-constrained differential emission measure (DEM) distribution for solar flares has historically been difficult, primarily because no single instrument is sensitive to the full range of coronal temperatures observed in flares,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-25 Amir Caspi , James M. McTiernan , Harry P. Warren

A multi-wavelength spatial and temporal analysis of solar high energy electrons is conducted using the August 20, 2002 flare of an unusually flat (gamma=1.8) hard X-ray spectrum. The flare is studied using RHESSI, Halpha, radio, TRACE, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Kasparova , M. Karlicky , E. P. Kontar , R. A. Schwartz , B. R. Dennis

The aim of the thesis is the study of properties of solar flares via reconstruction of energy distributions of accelerated/heated electrons, diagnostics of flare plasma based on EUV and X-ray observations, as well as the estimation of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-31 Galina G. Motorina
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