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LOPES (LOFAR Prototype Station) is an array of dipole antennas used for detection of radio emission from air showers. It is co-located and triggered by the KASCADE (Karlsruhe Shower Core and Array Detector) experiment, which also provides…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Petrovic , LOPES collaboration

We present a new analytical technique, combining Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) high-resolution imaging and spectroscopic observations, to visualize solar flare emission as a function of spectral component…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-15 Amir Caspi , Albert Y. Shih , James M. McTiernan , Säm Krucker

Solar X-ray spectra from the RESIK crystal spectrometer on the {\em CORONAS-F} spacecraft (spectral range $3.3-6.1$~\AA) are analyzed for thirty-three flares using a method to derive abundances of Si, S, Ar, and K, emission lines of which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 B. Sylwester , K. J. H. Phillips , J. Sylwester , A. Kepa

Identifying the source of the material within coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and understanding CME onset mechanisms are fundamental issues in solar and space physics. Parameters relating to plasma composition, such as charge states and He…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-09 Hui Fu , R. A. Harrison , J. A. Davies , LiDong Xia , XiaoShuai Zhu , Bo Li , ZhengHua Huang , D. Barnes

Solar energetic particle (SEP) events are one of the most crucial aspects of space weather. Their prediction depends on various factors including the source solar eruptions such as flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). The Geostationary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-16 Sumanth A. Rotti , Petrus C. Martens

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

Nanoflares, short and intense heat pulses within spatially unresolved magnetic strands, are now considered a leading candidate to solve the coronal heating problem. However, the frequent occurrence of nanoflares requires that flare-hot…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Fabio Reale , Paola Testa , James A. Klimchuk , Susanna Parenti

[Abridged]We present analysis of a pair of unusually energetic coronal hard X-ray (HXR) sources detected by RHESSI during the impulsive phase of an X3.9 class solar flare on 2003 November 3, which simultaneously shows two intense footpoint…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Qingrong Chen , Vahe Petrosian

We test the compatibility and biases of multi-thermal flare DEM (differential emission measure) peak temperatures determined with AIA with those determined by GOES and RHESSI using the isothermal assumption. In a set of 149 M- and X-class…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Daniel F. Ryan , Aidan M. O'Flannagain , Markus J. Aschwanden , Peter T. Gallagher

We present the analyses of intense X-ray flares detected on the active fast rotator AB Dor using observations from the XMM-Newton. A total of 21 flares are detected, and 13 flares are analysed in detail. The total X-ray energy of these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-23 Shweta Didel , Jeewan C. Pandey , A. K. Srivastava , Gurpreet Singh

Using Gaussian process methods, we analyzed the light curves of three extreme solar X-ray flares observed by the RHESSI satellite. Their variability characteristics were then compared with those of HXMT-HE X-ray burst (XRB; in SGR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-15 Haiyun Zhang , Dahai Yan , Lijuan Dong , Ping Zhang , Ruijing Tang , Jianeng Zhou , Lian Tao , Li Zhang , Niansheng Tang

Solar flares occur in complex sunspot groups, but it remains unclear how the probability of producing a flare of a given magnitude relates to the characteristics of the sunspot group. Here, we use Geostationary Operational Environmental…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-28 D. Shaun Bloomfield , Paul A. Higgins , R. T. James McAteer , Peter T. Gallagher

The steep power-law dependence of element abundance enhancements on the mass-to-charge ratios [A/Q] of the ions in impulsive solar energetic-particle (SEP) events causes these enhancements to reflect the temperature-dependent pattern of Q…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-05 Donald V. Reames , Edward W. Cliver , Stephen W. Kahler

Context. Hard X-ray (HXR) spikes refer to fine time structures on timescales of seconds to milliseconds in high-energy HXR emission profiles during solar flare eruptions. Aims. We present a preliminary statistical investigation of temporal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 J. X. Cheng , J. Qiu , M. D. Ding , H. Wang

According to the solar protons' data observed by Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) and neutron monitors on the ground of the Earth, and near-relativistic electrons data measured by the ACE spacecraft, the onset times…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Ming-Xian Zhao , Gui-Ming Le , Yu-Tian Chi

Red-shifted components of chromospheric emission lines in the hard X-ray impulsive phase of solar flares have recently been studied through their 30 s evolution with the high resolution of IRIS. Radiative-hydrodynamic flare models show that…

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

We performed high-spatial resolution spectropolarimetric observations of active region NOAA 13363 during a C-class flare with the Gregor Infrared Spectrograph (GRIS) on 16 July 2023. We examine the coupling between the photosphere and the…

FOXSI is a direct-imaging, hard X-ray (HXR) telescope optimized for solar flare observations. It detects hot plasma and energetic electrons in and near energy release sites in the solar corona via bremsstrahlung emission, measuring both…

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