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Solar flares with a broadband emission in the white-light range of the electromagnetic spectrum belong to most enigmatic phenomena on the Sun. The origin of the white-light emission is not entirely understood. We aim to systematically study…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-06 L. Mravcova , M. Svanda

The calcium abundance in flare plasmas is estimated using X-ray spectra from the Solar Maximum Mission Bent Crystal Spectrometer (BCS) during the decays of 194 flares (GOES classifications from B6.4 to X13) occurring between 1980 and 1989.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 J. Sylwester , B. Sylwester , K. J. H. Phillips , A. Kepa

Context. The carbon monoxide (CO) molecular line at around 46655 A in solar infrared spectra is often used to investigate the dynamic behavior of the cold heart of the solar atmosphere, i.e., sunspot oscillation, especially at the sunspot…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 D. Li , X. Yang , X. Y. Bai , J. T. Su , Z. J. Ning , W. Cao , Y. Y. Deng

Radio and optical observations of the evolution of flare-associated phenomena have shown an initial and rapid burst at 0.4 THz only followed subsequently by a localized chromospheric heating producing an H{\alpha} brightening with later…

We assess the on-orbit performance of the flare event trigger for the Hinode EUV Imaging Spectrometer. Our goal is to understand the time-delay between the occurrence of a flare, as defined by a prompt rise in soft X-ray emission, and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-24 David H. Brooks , Jeffrey W. Reep , Ignacio Ugarte-Urra , Harry P. Warren

Flare ribbons serve as chromospheric footprints of energy deposition resulting from particle acceleration during magnetic reconnection. Their fine-scale structure provides a valuable tool for probing the dynamics of the flare reconnection…

High-resolution imaging observations from the Hinode spacecraft in the CaII H line are employed to study the dynamics of the chromosphere above a sunspot. We find that umbral flashes and other brightenings produced by the oscillation are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 H. Socas-Navarro , S. W. McIntosh , R. Centeno , A. G. de Wijn , B. W. Lites

We investigate the thermal properties of a solar flare by the observations of soft X-ray Telescope (XRT) on board Hinode and the Atmospheric Image Assembly on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO/AIA). Our analysis reveals a tenuous…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-22 Xiaoyan Xie , Anna Chen , Crisel Suarez , Katharine K. Reeves , Soumya Roy , Christopher S. Moore , Nishu Karna , Joy Velasquez

Flares are a major explosive event in our solar system. They are often followed by coronal mass ejection that has a potential to trigger the geomagnetic storms. There are various studies aiming to predict when and where the flares are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Shinsuke Imada , Yumi Bamba , Kanya Kusano

We study a sequence of eruptive events including filament eruption, a GOES C4.3 flare and a coronal mass ejection. We aim to identify the possible trigger(s) and precursor(s) of the filament destabilisation; investigate flare kernel…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-02 Z. Huang , M. S. Madjarska , K. Koleva , J. G. Doyle , P. Duchlev , M. Dechev , K. Reardon

Near-ultraviolet spectroscopic data obtained with the HST STIS instrument on the dMe flare star YZ Canis Minoris (YZ CMi) were analyzed. Flare and quiet intervals were identified from the broadband near-UV light curve, and the spectrum of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Suzanne L. Hawley , Lucianne M. Walkowicz , Joel C. Allred , Jeff A. Valenti

We present a study of high-resolution spectra of RS Canum Venaticorum (RS CVn), a prototype of active binary systems. Our data were obtained from 1998 to 2017 using different telescopes. We analyze the chromospheric activity indicators Ca…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-08 Dongtao Cao , Shenghong Gu , U. Wolter , M. Mittag , J. H. M. M. Schmitt , Dongyang Gao , Shaoming Hu

We illustrate some of the preliminary results obtained with a new sample of flares and a new analysis. In these proceedings we deal mainly with the analysis related to the flare energy and describe the work in progress to measure the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-15 G. Chincarini , R. Margutti , J. Mao , F. Pasotti , C. Guidorzi , S. Covino , P. D'avanzo

We aim to improve our picture of the low chromosphere in the quiet-Sun internetwork by investigating the intensity, horizontal velocity, size and lifetime variations of small bright points (BPs; diameter smaller than 0.3 arcsec) observed in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-29 S. Jafarzadeh , S. K. Solanki , A. Feller , A. Lagg , A. Pietarila , S. Danilovic , T. L. Riethmüller , V. Martínez Pillet

We report on a multi-wavelength analysis of the 26 January 2014 solar eruption involving a coronal mass ejection (CME) and a Type-II radio burst, performed by combining data from various space-and ground-based instruments. An increasing…

We apply multi-algorithm machine learning models to TESS 2-minute survey data from Sectors 1-72 to identify stellar flares. Models trained with Deep Neural Network, Random Forest, and XGBoost algorithms, respectively, utilized four flare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-24 Chia-Lung Lin , Daniel Apai , Mark S. Giampapa , Wing-Huen Ip

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

Solar flares result in an increase of the solar irradiance at all wavelengths. While the distribution of the flare fluence observed in coronal emission has been widely studied and found to scale as f(E) ~ E^{-\alpha}, with \alpha slightly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-08 M. Kretzschmar

Acceleration of particles and plasma heating is one of the fundamental problems in solar flare physics. An accurate determination of the spectrum of flare energized electrons over a broad energy range is crucial for our understanding of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-16 Marina Battaglia , Galina Motorina , Eduard P. Kontar

Spectroscopic observations of solar flares provide critical diagnostics of the physical conditions in the flaring atmosphere. Some key features in observed spectra have not yet been accounted for in existing flare models. Here we report a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 Fatima Rubio da Costa , Lucia Kleint , Vahé Petrosian , Wei Liu , Joel C. Allred