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The large uncertainties associated with measuring the amount of high temperature emission in solar active regions represents a significant impediment to making progress on the coronal heating problem. Most current observations at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-20 Luca Teriaca , Harry Warren , Werner Curdt

We present a survey of coronal forbidden lines detected in Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) spectra of nearby stars. Two strong coronal features, Fe XVIII 974 A and Fe XIX 1118 A, are observed in 10 of the 26 stars in our…

Fe XXV lines at 1.85 A (6.70 keV) and nearby Fe XXIV satellites have been widely used for determining the temperature of the hottest parts of solar flare and tokamak plasmas, though the spectral region is crowded and the lines are blended…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. J. H. Phillips

The Interface Region Imaging Spectrometer (IRIS) is the first solar instrument to observe $\sim 10$ MK plasma at subarcsecond spatial resolution through imaging spectroscopy of the Fe XXI $\lambda$1354.1 forbidden line. IRIS observations of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Peter Young , Hui Tian , Sarah Jaeggli

In this Letter, we present Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph Fe XXI 1354.08 A forbidden line emission of two magnetic flux ropes (MFRs) that caused two fast coronal mass ejections with velocities of $\ge$1000 km s$^{-1}$ and strong…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 X. Cheng , M. D. Ding

In the present work we study the C8 flare occurred on September 26, 2000 at 19:49 UT and observed by the SOHO/SUMER spectrometer from the beginning of the impulsive phase to well beyond the disappearance in the X-rays. The emission first…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 F. Reale , E. Landi , S. Orlando

The spectroscopic observations presented here were acquired during the 2017 August 21 total solar eclipse with a three-channel partially multiplexed imaging spectrometer (3PAMIS) operating at extremely high orders ($>$ 50). The 4 $R_\odot$…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-18 Yingjie Zhu , Shadia R. Habbal , Adalbert Ding , Bryan Yamashiro , Enrico Landi , Benjamin Boe , Sage Constantinou , Michael Nassir

X-ray spectra in the range $1.5-8.5$~keV have been analyzed for 526 large flares detected with the Solar Assembly for X-rays (SAX) on the Mercury {\em MESSENGER} spacecraft between 2007 and 2013. For each flare, the temperature and emission…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 B. R. Dennis , K. J. H. Phillips , R. A. Schwartz , A. K. Tolbert , R. D. Starr , L. R. Nittler

The ratio of the Fe abundance in the photosphere to that in coronal flare plasmas is determined by X-ray lines within the complex at 6.7~keV (1.9~\AA) emitted during flares. The line complex includes the He-like Fe (\fexxv) resonance line…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 K. J. H. Phillips

Archived high-resolution X-ray spectra in the 13~\AA\ to 22~\AA\ range from the Flat Crystal Spectrometer (FCS), an instrument on the Solar Maximum Mission operating in the 1980s, are analyzed with reference to nonflaring active regions,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Kenneth J. H. Phillips , Barbara Sylwester , Janusz Sylwester

The aim of this study is to clarify if the assumption of ionization equilibrium and a Maxwellian electron energy distribution is valid in flaring solar plasmas. We analyze the 2014 December 20 X1.8 flare, in which the \ion{Fe}{xxi} 187~\AA,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-20 Tomoko Kawate , Francis P. Keenan , David B. Jess

In this study, we investigate motions in the hot plasma above the flare loops during the 2017 September 10 X8.2 flare event. We examine the region to the south of the main flare arcade, where there is data from the Interface Region Imaging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Katharine K. Reeves , Vanessa Polito , Bin Chen , Giselle Galan , Sijie Yu , Wei Liu , Gang Li

Previously, large discrepancies have been found between theory and observation for Fe XV emission line ratios in solar flare spectra covering the 224-327 A wavelength range, obtained by the Naval Research Laboratory's S082A instrument on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 F P Keenan , K M Aggarwal , D S Bloomfield , A Z Msezane , K G Widing

A class X1.5 flare started on the solar limb at 00:43 UT on 21 April 2002, which was associated with a CME observed at 01:27 UT by LASCO C2. The coordinated analyses of this flare include TRACE 195 {\AA} images and SUMER spectra in lines of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-29 T. J. Wang , S. K. Solanki , D. E. Innes , W. Curdt

We detected a giant X-ray flare from the RS-CVn type binary star UX Ari using MAXI on 2020 August 17 and started a series of NICER observations 89 minutes later. For a week, the entire duration of the flare was covered with 32 snapshot…

This paper investigates the temporal evolution of temperature, emission measure, energy loss and velocity in a C-class solar flare from both an observational and theoretical perspective. The properties of the flare were derived by following…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Claire L. Raftery , Peter T. Gallagher , Ryan O. Milligan , James A. Klimchuk

This paper presents a detailed study of excess line broadening in EUV emission lines during the impulsive phase of a C-class solar flare. In this work, which utilizes data from the EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) onboard Hinode, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-09 Ryan O. Milligan

Analysis of RHESSI 3--10 keV spectra for 27 solar flares is reported. This energy range includes thermal free--free and free--bound continuum and two line features, at 6.7keV and 8keV, principally due to highly ionized iron (Fe). We used…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 K. J. H. Phillips , C. Chifor , B. R. Dennis

Fully relativistic calculations of radiative rates and electron impact excitation cross sections for Fe X are used to derive theoretical emission-line ratios involving transitions in the 174-366 A wavelength range. A comparison of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F P Keenan , D B Jess , K M Aggarwal , R J Thomas , J W Brosius , J M Davila

The RS CVn type binary star GT Mus was observed during its quiescence using the Resolve X-ray microcalorimeter spectrometer onboard XRISM. The main and satellite lines of the Fe XXIV--XXVI K-shell transitions were resolved for the first…

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