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Previous studies have shown that the energy release mechanism of some solar flares follow the Standard magnetic-reconnection model, but the detailed properties of high-energy electrons produced in the flare are still not well understood. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 Natsuha Kuroda , Haimin Wang , Dale E. Gary

Investigate particle acceleration and heating in a solar microflare. In a microflare with non-thermal emission to remarkably high energies ($>50$ keV), we investigate the hard X-rays with RHESSI imaging and spectroscopy and the resulting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-17 I. G. Hannah , S. Krucker , H. S. Hudson , S. Christe , R. P. Lin

Superflares on the solar type stars observed by \textit{Kepler} demonstrate the contrast in the optical continuum of the order 0.1--1 per cent. The mechanism of formation of this radiation is not firmly established. We consider a model…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-09 B. A. Nizamov

Solar flare accelerated electrons escaping into the interplanetary space and seen as type III solar radio bursts are often detected near the Earth. Using numerical simulations we consider the evolution of energetic electron spectrum in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-25 Hamish A. S. Reid , Eduard P. Kontar

Using a non-linear Monte-Carlo code we investigate the radiative response of an accretion disk corona system to static homogeneous flares. We model a flare by a rapid (comparable to the light crossing time) energy dissipation in the corona…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Julien Malzac , Elisabeth Jourdain

In energetic nonthermal sources such as gamma-ray bursts, AGN or galactic jet sources, etc., one expects both relativistic and transrelativistic shocks acompanied by violent motions of moderately relativistic plasma. We present general…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 A. Bykov , P. Meszaros

Loop-aligned hydrodynamic modelings help better understand the thermodynamic evolution of flaring plasma confined in solar flare loops. Conventional loop modelings typically assume a uniform loop cross section. With a variation of the cross…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Yu Dai , Shihan Li , Wenlong Tang , Zhen Li , Mingde Ding

Dynamics of an spatially limited electron beam in the inhomogeneous solar corona plasma is considered in the framework of weak turbulence theory when the temperature of the beam significantly exceeds that of surrounding plasma. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-22 Eduard P. Kontar

Context: Solar flares accelerate electrons, creating non-thermal energy distributions. However, the acceleration sites and dominant acceleration mechanisms remain largely unknown. Aims: We study the characteristics of electron acceleration…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Eilif S. Øyre , Boris V. Gudiksen , Lyndsay Fletcher

Blazars are known to emit a broad band emission from radio to gamma-rays with rapid time variations, particularly, in X- and gamma-rays. Synchrotron radiation and inverse Compton scattering are thought to play an important role in emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Kusunose , F. Takahara , H. Li

Observations of radio noise storms can act as sensitive probes of nonthermal electrons produced in small acceleration events in the solar corona. We use data from noise storm episodes observed jointly by the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-22 Tomin James , Prasad Subramanian

The sites of chromospheric excitation during solar flares are marked by extended extreme ultraviolet ribbons and hard X-ray footpoints. The standard interpretation is that these are the result of heating and bremsstrahlung emission from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-28 L. Fletcher , I. G. Hannah , H. S. Hudson , D. E. Innes

Suprathermal tails are a common feature of solar wind electron velocity distributions, and are expected in the solar corona. From the corona, suprathermal electrons can propagate through the steep temperature gradient of the transition…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-13 C. Vocks , E. Dzifcakova , G. Mann

We present the analysis of a compact flare that occurred on 2002/02/26 at 10:26 UT, seen by both RHESSI and TRACE. The size of the nearly circular hard X-ray source is determined to be 4.7(+-1.5)" from the modulation profiles of the RHESSI…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Saint-Hilaire , A. O. Benz

The low-energy spectra of gamma-ray bursts' (GRBs) prompt emission are closely related to the energy distribution of electrons, which is further regulated by their cooling processes. We develop a numerical code to calculate the evolution of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-16 Jin-Jun Geng , Yong-Feng Huang , Xue-Feng Wu , Bing Zhang , Hong-Shi Zong

We study the evolution of the spectral index and the normalization (flux) of the non-thermal component of the electron spectra observed by RHESSI during 24 solar hard X-ray flares. The quantitative evolution is confronted with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo C. Grigis , Arnold O. Benz

Possible entropy constraints on particle acceleration spectra are discussed. Solar flare models invoke a variety of initial distributions of the primary energy release over the particles of the flare plasma -- ie., the partition of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 John C Brown , Gregory Beekman , Norman Gray , Alexander L MacKinnon

Hard x-ray spectral breaks are explained in terms of a 1D model with a co-spatial return current. We study 19 flares observed by RHESSI (Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager) with strong spectral breaks at energies around a few…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-08 Meriem Alaoui , Gordon Holman

Recent observations and simulations indicate that solar flares undergo extremely complex three-dimensional (3D) evolution, making 3D particle transport models essential for understanding electron acceleration and interpreting flare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-19 Xiaocan Li , Chengcai Shen , Xiaoyan Xie , Fan Guo , Bin Chen , Ivan Oparin , Yuqian Wei , Sijie Yu , Jeongbhin Seo

Using a Monte Carlo ray-tracing code in full general relativity, we calculate the transport of photons from a geodesic hot spot emitter through a corona of hot electrons surrounding a black hole. Each photon is followed until it is either…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jeremy D. Schnittman