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We report a NuSTAR observation of a solar microflare, SOL2015-09-01T04. Although it was too faint to be observed by the GOES X-ray Sensor, we estimate the event to be an A0.1 class flare in brightness. This microflare, with only 5 counts…

We investigate accelerated electron energy spectra for different sources in a large flare using simultaneous observations obtained with two instruments, the Nobeyama Radio Heliograph (NoRH) at 17 and 34 GHz, and the Reuven Ramaty High…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. R. Kundu , V. V. Grechnev , S. M. White , E. J. Schmahl , N. S. Meshalkina , L. K. Kashapova

Extending previous studies of nonthermal electron transport in solar flares which include the effects of collisional energy diffusion and thermalization of fast electrons, we present an analytic method to infer more accurate estimates of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 E. P. Kontar , N. L. S. Jeffrey , A. G. Emslie , N. H. Bian

Spectroscopic observations in X-ray wavelengths provide excellent diagnostics of the temperature distribution in solar flare plasma. The Solar X-ray Monitor (XSM) onboard the Chandrayaan-2 mission provides broad-band disk integrated soft…

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

We report the detection of emission from a non-thermal electron distribution in a small solar microflare (GOES class A5.7) observed by the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), with supporting observation by the Reuven Ramaty High…

Temporal and spectral characteristics of X-ray emission from 60 flares of intensity $\ge$C class observed by Solar X-ray Spectrometer (SOXS) during 2003-2011 are presented. We analyse the X-ray emission observed in four and three energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Veena Choithani , Rajmal Jain , Arun Kumar Awasthi , Geetanjali Singh , Sneha Chaudhari , Som Kumar Sharma

Recently, a number of peculiar flares have been reported, which demonstrate significant non-thermal particle signatures with a low, if any, thermal emission, that implies close association of the observed emission with the primary energy…

The energy of the thermal flare plasma and the kinetic energy of the non-thermal electrons in 14 hard X-ray peaks from 9 medium-sized solar flares have been determined from RHESSI observations. The emissions have been carefully separated in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pascal Saint-Hilaire , Arnold O. Benz

Nonthermal electrons accelerated in solar flares produce electromagnetic emission in two distinct, highly complementary domains - hard X-rays (HXRs) and microwaves (MWs). This paper reports MW imaging spectroscopy observations from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 Natsuha Kuroda , Gregory D. Fleishman , Dale E. Gary , Gelu M. Nita , Bin Chen , Sijie Yu

We studied electron spectral indices of nonthermal emissions seen in hard X-rays (HXRs) and in microwaves. We analyzed 12 flares observed by the Hard X-ray Telescope aboard {\it Yohkoh}, Nobeyama Radio Polarimeters (NoRP), and the Nobeyama…

In this paper, we discuss the temperature distribution and evolution of a microflare, simultaneously observed by Hinode XRT, EIS, and SDO AIA. We find using EIS lines that during peak emission the distribution is nearly isothermal and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Urmila Mitra-Kraev , Giulio Del Zanna

An important question in solar physics is whether solar microflares, the smallest currently observable flare events in X-rays, possess the same energetic properties as large flares. Recent surveys have suggested that microflares may be less…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 A. R. Inglis , S. Christe

The solar corona is full of dynamic phenomena, e.g., solar flares, micro flares in active regions, jets in coronal holes and in the polar regions, X-ray bright points in quiet regions, etc. They are accompanied by interesting physical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-15 Noriyuki Narukage , Shin-nosuke Ishikawa , Tomoko Kawate , Shinsuke Imada , Taro Sakao

We present a statistical analysis of properties of Soft X-Ray (SXR) emission, plasma temperature (T), and emission measure (EM), derived from GOES observations of flares in 2002-2017. The temperature and emission measures are obtained using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Viacheslav M Sadykov , Alexander G Kosovichev , Irina N Kitiashvili , Alexander Frolov

This paper presents a solely thermal flare, which we detected in the microwave range from the thermal gyro- and free-free emission it produced. An advantage of analyzing thermal gyro emission is its unique ability to precisely yield the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Gregory D. Fleishman , Gelu M. Nita , Dale E. Gary

We investigated the response of the solar atmosphere to non-thermal electron beam heating using the radiative transfer and hydrodynamics modelling code RADYN. The temporal evolution of the parameters that describe the non-thermal electron…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-10 Michael B. Kennedy , Ryan O. Milligan , Joel C. Allred , Mihalis Mathioudakis , Francis P. Keenan

The energy and spectral shape of radio bursts may help us understand the generation mechanism of solar eruptions, including solar flares, CMEs, eruptive filaments, and various scales of jets. The different kinds of flares may have different…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Chengming Tan , Karl-Ludwig Klein , Yihua Yan , Satoshi Masuda , Baolin Tan , Jing Huang , Guowu Yuan

X-ray observations are a direct diagnostic of fast electrons produced in solar flares, energized during the energy release process and directed towards the Sun. Since the properties of accelerated electrons can be substantially changed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 Natasha Jeffrey , Eduard Kontar , Gordon Emslie , Nicolas Bian

Soft X-ray solar bursts are studied. Weak bursts with powers up to 10-8 W/m2 were detected. All the events were confirmed by GOES observations. Parameters of these microflares are determined. A physical mechanism for the low-intensity solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-18 I. K. Mirzoeva