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A number of double coronal X-ray sources have been observed during solar flares by RHESSI, where the two sources reside at different sides of the inferred reconnection site. However, where and how are these X-ray-emitting electrons…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Xiangliang Kong , Jing Ye , Bin Chen , Fan Guo , Chengcai Shen , Xiaocan Li , Sijie Yu , Yao Chen , Joe Giacalone

The interrelation of hard X-ray (HXR) emitting sources and the underlying physics of electron acceleration and transport presents one of the major questions in high-energy solar flare physics. Spatially resolved observations of solar flares…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Paulo J. A. Simões , Eduard P. Kontar

We investigate the effects of acceleration during non-linear electron-beam relaxation in magnetized plasma in the case of electron transport in solar flares. The evolution of electron distribution functions is computed using a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 M. Karlicky , E. P. Kontar

The Letter takes up a question of what radio emission is produced by electrons at the very acceleration site of a solar flare. Specifically, we calculate incoherent radio emission produced within two competing acceleration…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Yixuan Li , Gregory D. Fleishman

The content of hot material in the corona is not constant. Soft X-ray and high-temperature EUV line observations show that new material, apparently heated and evaporated from the chromosphere, is frequently injected into the corona both in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Arnold O. Benz , Paolo C. Grigis

As it was shown by many authors, a slow decrease in X-rays observed during the decay phase of long duration flares (LDE) can be explained only by a magnetic reconnection and energy release ceaselessly ongoing in the coronal part of a flare.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-08 Sylwester Kolomanski , Zbigniew Koltun , Tomasz Mrozek , Urszula Bak-Steslicka

Imaging spectroscopy in X-rays with RHESSI provide the possibility to investigate the spatial evolution of the X-ray emitting electron distribution and therefore to study the transport effects on energetic electrons during solar flares. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 S. Musset , E. P. Kontar , N. Vilmer

There are still debates whether particle acceleration in solar flares may occur due to interruption of electric currents flowing along magnetic loops. To contribute to this problem, we performed the first statistical study of relationships…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-25 I. V. Zimovets , I. N. Sharykin , W. Q. Gan

We study the non-thermal emissions in a solar flare occurring on 2003 May 29 by using RHESSI hard X-ray (HXR) and Nobeyama microwave observations. This flare shows several typical behaviors of the HXR and microwave emissions: time delay of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Minoshima , T. Yokoyama , N. Mitani

Solar flare hard X-ray spectra from RHESSI are normally interpreted in terms of purely collisional electron beam propagation, ignoring spatial evolution and collective effects. In this paper we present self-consistent numerical simulations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 I. G. Hannah , E. P. Kontar , O. K. Sirenko

Most theoretical descriptions of the production of solar flare bremsstrahlung radiation assume the collision of dilute accelerated particles with a cold, dense target plasma, neglecting interactions of the fast particles with each other.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 R. K. Galloway , P. Helander , A. L. MacKinnon , J. C. Brown

We study the energetics of nonthermal electrons produced in small acceleration episodes in the solar corona. We carried out an extensive survey spanning 2004--2015 and shortlisted 6 impulsive electron events detected at 1 AU that was not…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-20 Tomin James , Prasad Subramanian , Eduard P Kontar

X-rays are a valuable diagnostic tool for the study of high energy accelerated electrons. Bremsstrahlung X-rays produced by, and directly related to, high energy electrons accelerated during a flare, provide a powerful diagnostic tool for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-09 Natasha L. S. Jeffrey

We present observations of electron energization in magnetic reconnection outflows during the pre-impulsive phase of solar flare SOL2012-07-19T05:58. During a time-interval of about 20 minutes, starting 40 minutes before the onset of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 Marina Battaglia , Eduard P. Kontar , Galina Motorina

Solar flares are currently understood as the explosive release of energy stored in the form of stressed magnetic fields. In many cases, the released energy seems to take the form of large numbers of electrons accelerated to high energies or…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-18 George H. Fisher

Recently, in a few case studies we demonstrated that gyrosynchrotron microwave emission can be detected directly from the acceleration region when the trapped electron component is insignificant. For the statistical study reported here, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 Gregory D. Fleishman , Gelu M. Nita , Eduard P. Kontar , Dale E. Gary

X-ray and EUV observations are an important diagnostic of various plasma parameters of the solar atmosphere during solar flares. Soft X-ray and EUV observations often show coronal sources near the top of flaring loops, while hard X-ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Marina Battaglia , Eduard P. Kontar

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

Acceleration and transport of high-energy particles and fluid dynamics of atmospheric plasma are interrelated aspects of solar flares. We present here self-consistently combined Fokker-Planck modeling of particles and hydrodynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 Wei Liu , Vahe Petrosian , John T. Mariska

Observations relating the characteristics of electrons seen near Earth (SEPs) and those producing flare radiation show that in certain (prompt) events the origin of both population appears to be the flare site, which show strong correlation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 Vahe' Petrosian