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We present the first joint spectral and imaging analysis of hard X-ray (HXR) emission from 3 microflares observed by the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope ARray (NuSTAR) and Solar Orbiter/Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX). We…

Quantitative and analytical analysis of modulation process of the collimator is a great challenge, and is also of great value to the design and development of Fourier transform imaging telescopes. The Hard X-ray Imager (HXI), as one of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 Xian-Kai Jiang , Jian Wu , Deng-Yi Chen , Yi-Ming Hu , Hao-Xiang Wang , Wei Liu , Zhe Zhang

During its commissioning phase in 2020, the Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX) on board the Solar Orbiter spacecraft observed 69 microflares. The two most significant events from this set (of GOES class B2 and B6) were…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 J. Saqri , A. M. Veronig , A. Warmuth , E. C. M. Dickson , A. F. Battaglia , T. Podladchikova , H. Xiao , M. Battaglia , G. J. Hurford , S. Krucker

During the next solar maximum, two upcoming space-borne X-ray missions, STIX on board Solar Orbiter and MiSolFA, will perform stereoscopic X-ray observations of solar flares at two different locations: STIX at 0.28 AU (at perihelion) and up…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-27 Diego Casadei , Natasha L. S. Jeffrey , Eduard P. Kontar

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) solar soft X-ray (SXR) irradiance in the 1-8{\AA} wavelength range is a long-standing measure of solar activity, used to define the classification of flare strengths. As a result,…

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

Solar flares are the most powerful events in the solar system and the brightest sources of X-rays, often associated with emission of particles reaching the Earth and causing geomagnetic storms, giving problems to communication, airplanes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-05 Diego Casadei

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…

It is well known among the scientific community that solar flare activity often begins well before the main impulsive energy release. Our aim is to investigate the earliest phase of four distinct flares observed by Solar Orbiter/STIX and…

We describe two inversion methods for the reconstruction of hard X-ray solar images. The methods are tested against experimental visibilities recorded by the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) and synthetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Anna Maria Massone , Federica Sciacchitano , Michele Piana , Alberto Sorrentino

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…

In this paper we present new optimization strategies for the reconstruction of X-ray images of solar flares by means of the data collected by the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI). The imaging concept of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-26 S. Bonettini , M. Prato

The Solar Orbiter mission, to be launched in July 2017, will carry a suite of remote sensing and in-situ instruments, including the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI). PHI will deliver high-cadence images of the Sun in intensity and…

Reconstructing an image from sparsely sampled Fourier data is an ill-posed inverse problem that occurs in a variety of subjects within science, including the data analysis for Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) and the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-22 Hendrik Müller , Paolo Massa , Alejandro Mus , Jong-Seo Kim , Emma Perracchione

In previous works we have developed a method to convert solar X-ray data, collected with the Yohkoh/SXT, into templates of stellar coronal observations. Here we apply the method to several solar flares, for comparison with stellar X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 F. Reale , G. Peres , S. Orlando

A space-borne hard X-ray collimator, comprising 91 pairs of grids, has been developed for the Hard X-ray Imager (HXI). The HXI is one of the three scientific instruments onboard the first Chinese solar mission: the Advanced Space-based…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-19 Chen Dengyi , Hu Yiming , Ma Tao , Su Yang , Yang Jianfeng , Wang Jianping , Xu Guangzhou , Jiang Xiankai , Guo Jianhua , Zhang Yongqiang , Zhang Yan , Chen Wei , Chang Jin , Zhang Zhe

Solar flare activity is characterised by different classification systems, both in optical and X-ray ranges. The most generally accepted classifications of solar flares describe important parameters of flares such as the maximum of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-28 Elena Bruevich

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

One way of imaging X-ray emission from solar flares is to measure Fourier components of the spatial X-ray source distribution. We present a new Compressed Sensing-based algorithm named VIS_CS, which reconstructs the spatial distribution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 Simon Felix , Roman Bolzern , Marina Battaglia

Context. We present an analysis of a GOES M1.8 flare with excellent observational coverage in UV, EUV, and X-ray, including observations from the instruments IRIS, SDO with AIA, Hinode/EIS, Hinode/XRT, and Solar Orbiter with the…