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Mercury mission MESSENGER's %(MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging Solar Assembly for X-rays (SAX) observed almost 700 solar flares between May 28, 2007 and August 19, 2013, as cataloged by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Erica Lastufka , Säm Krucker

We present the study of the X2-class flare which occurred on the 27 October 2014 and was observed with the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) and the EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) on board the Hinode satellite. Thanks to the high…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 V. Polito , J. W. Reep , K. K. Reeves , P. J. A. Simões , J. Dudík , G. Del Zanna , H. E. Mason , L. Golub

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

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

One of the main science questions of the Solar Orbiter and Parker Solar Probe missions deals with understanding how electrons in the lower solar corona are accelerated and how they subsequently access interplanetary space. We aim to…

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

Solar Orbiter conducted a series of flare-optimised observing campaigns in 2024 utilising the Major Flare Solar Orbiter Observing Plan (SOOP). Dedicated observations were performed during two distinct perihelia intervals in March/April and…

The Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX) on board Solar Orbiter (SolO) provides a unique opportunity to systematically perform stereoscopic X-ray observations of solar flares with current and upcoming X-ray missions at Earth.…

Solar eruptive events, including solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), are typically characterised by energetically significant X-ray emissions from flare-accelerated electrons and hot thermal plasmas. Occulted events, where the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-13 Laura A. Hayes , Säm Krucker , Hannah Collier , Daniel Ryan

Solar flares, along with other sun-originated events such as Coronal Mass Ejections, fast solar wind streams, and solar energetic particles are among the most relevant events in Space Weather. Moreover, solar flares are the most energetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-21 Nicola Plutino , Francesco Berrilli , Dario Del Moro , Luca Giovannelli

The Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX) is a hard X-ray imaging spectroscopy device to be mounted in the Solar Orbiter cluster with the aim of providing images and spectra of solar flaring regions at different photon energies…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-23 Sara Giordano , Nicola Pinamonti , Michele Piana , Anna Maria Massone

We present high-resolution and multi-line observations of a C2-class solar flare, occurred in NOAA AR 12740 on May 6, 2019. The rise, peak and decay phases of the flare were recorded continuously and quasi-simultaneously in the Ca II K line…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Rahul Yadav , C. J. D. Baso , J. de la Cruz Rodr'iguez , F. Calvo , R. Morosin

We present a multi-instrument study of the two precursor brightenings prior to the M6.5 flare (SOL2015-06-22T18:23) in the NOAA Active Region 12371, with a focus on the temperature (T), electron number density (n), and emission measure…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Nian Liu , Ju Jing , Yan Xu , Haimin Wang

In this research, we investigate Explosive Events (EEs) in the off-limb solar atmosphere, with simultaneous observations from the Si IV, Mg II k, and slit-jaw images (SJI) of the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), on 17 August…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-06 E. Tavabi , S. Zeighami , M. Heydari

The current fleet of space-based solar observatories offers us a wealth of opportunities to study solar flares over a range of wavelengths. Significant advances in our understanding of flare physics often come from coordinated observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 Ryan O. Milligan , Jack Ireland

The Bent Crystal Spectrometer (BCS) on the NASA Solar Maximum Mission spacecraft observed the X-ray spectra of numerous solar flares during the periods 1980 February to November and 1984~--~1989. The instrument, the first of its kind to use…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-19 J. Sylwester , B. Sylwester , K. J. H. Phillips , A. Kepa , C. G. Rapley

We present an analysis of soft X-ray (SXR) and extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) observations of solar flares with an approximate C8 GOES class. Our constraint on peak GOES SXR flux allows for the investigation of correlations between various flare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-09 Trevor A. Bowen , Paola Testa , Katharine K. Reeves

Non-thermal and thermal parameters of 85 solar flares of GOES class B1 to M6 (background subtracted classes A1 to M6) have been compared to each other. The hard X-ray flux has been measured by RHESSI and a spectral fitting provided flux and…

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

We investigate the spatial, temporal, and spectral properties of 10 microflares from AR12721 on 2018 September 9 and 10 observed in X-rays using the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope ARray (NuSTAR) and the Solar Dynamic Observatory's…

We conduct a wide-band X-ray spectral analysis in the energy range of 1.5-100 keV to study the time evolution of the M7.6 class flare of 2016 July 23, with the Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer (MinXSS) CubeSat and the Reuven Ramaty High…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Shunsaku Nagasawa , Tomoko Kawate , Noriyuki Narukage , Tadayuki Takahashi , Amir Caspi , Thomas N. Woods