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We investigate the type III radio bursts and X-ray signatures of accelerated electrons in a well observed solar flare in order to find the spatial properties of the acceleration region. Combining simultaneous RHESSI hard X-ray flare data…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 H. A. S. Reid , N. Vilmer , E. P. Kontar

Aims: We investigate the electron acceleration in convective electric fields of cascading magnetic reconnection in a flaring solar corona and show the resulting hard X-ray (HXR) radiation spectra caused by Bremsstrahlung for the coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 X. Zhou , J. Büchner , M. Barta , W. Gan , S. Liu

The well-established notion of a "common population" of the accelerated electrons simultaneously producing the hard X-ray (HXR) and the microwave (MW) emission during the flare impulsive phase has been challenged by some studies reporting…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 Natsuha Kuroda , Dale E. Gary , Haimin Wang , Gregory Fleishman , Gelu M. Nita , Ju Jing

We analyze electron flux maps based on RHESSI hard X-ray imaging spectroscopy data for a number of extended coronal loop flare events. For each event, we determine the variation of the characteristic loop length $L$ with electron energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jingnan Guo , A. Gordon Emslie , Michele Piana

The rare phenomenon of ribbon-like hard X-ray (HXR) sources up to 100 keV found in the 2005 May 13 M8.0 flare observed with the \textit{Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager} provides detailed information on the spatial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chang Liu , Jeongwoo Lee , Ju Jing , Dale E. Gary , Haimin Wang

The acceleration and transport of energetic electrons during solar flares is one of the outstanding topics in solar physics. Recent X-ray and radio imaging and spectroscopy observations have provided diagnostics of the distribution of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 Xiangliang Kong , Bin Chen , Fan Guo , Chengcai Shen , Xiaocan Li , Jing Ye , Lulu Zhao , Zelong Jiang , Sijie Yu , Yao Chen , Joe Giacalone

Solar flare electron acceleration is an efficient process, but its properties (mechanism, location) are not well constrained. Via hard X-ray (HXR) emission, we routinely observe energetic electrons at the Sun, and sometimes we detect…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-09 Ross Pallister , Natasha L. S. Jeffrey

We investigate two microflares of GOES classes A9 and C1 (after background subtraction) observed by STIX onboard Solar Orbiter with exceptionally strong nonthermal emission. We complement the hard X-ray imaging and spectral analysis by STIX…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-12 Jonas Saqri , Astrid M. Veronig , Andrea Francesco Battaglia , Ewan C. M. Dickson , Dale E. Gary , Säm Krucker

Coronal hard X-ray (HXR) and continuum gamma-ray sources associated with the impulsive phase of solar flares have been the subject of renewed interest in recent years. They have been interpreted in terms of thin-target, nonthermal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Bin Chen , Timothy S. Bastian

Recently a distinctive class of hard X ray (HXR) sources located in the corona was found, which implies that the collisionally thick target model (CTTM) applies even to the corona. We investigated whether this idea can independently be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jeongwoo Lee , Daye Lim , G. S. Choe , Kap-Sung Kim , Minhwan Jang

Simultaneous observations of explosive chromospheric evaporation are presented using data from the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) and the Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer (CDS) onboard SOHO. For the first time,…

Observations of solar flares with RHESSI have shown X-ray sources traveling along flaring loops, from the corona down to the chromosphere and back up. The 28 November 2002 C1.1 flare, first observed with RHESSI by Sui et al. 2006 and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Jeffrey W. Reep , Stephen J. Bradshaw , Gordon D. Holman

The GOES X1.5 class flare that occurred on August 30,2002 at 1327:30 UT is one of the few events detected so far at submillimeter wavelengths. We present a detailed analysis of this flare combining radio observations from 1.5 to 212 GHz (an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. G. Gimenez de Castro , G. Trottet , A. Silva-Valio , S. Krucker , J. E. R. Costa , P. Kaufmann , E. Correia , H. Levato

A new estimation of the total number and energy of the non-thermal electrons produced in the giant ($>\text{X}17$) solar flare on 2003 October 28 is presented based on the analysis of the observations of the hard X-ray (HXR) emission by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 B. A. Nizamov , I. V. Zimovets , D. V. Golovin , A. B. Sanin , M. L. Litvak , V. I. Tretyakov , I. G. Mitrofanov , A. S. Kozyrev

X-ray observations provide important and valuable insights into the acceleration and propagation of nonthermal electrons during solar flares. Improved X-ray spectral analysis requires a deeper understanding of the dynamics of energetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-15 Yingjie Luo , Eduard P. Kontar , Debesh Bhattacharjee

The Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectrocopy Imager (RHESSI) $\gamma$-ray observations of the extraordinary GOES X25 flare SOL2003-10-28T11:10 are revisited to investigate previously reported conclusions that flare-accelerated electrons…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-05 Andrea Francesco Battaglia , Säm Krucker

At hard X-ray energies, the bright footpoint emission from solar flare loops often prevents a detailed analysis of the weaker loop-top source morphology due to the limited dynamic range available for X-ray imaging. Here, we study the X1.3…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 Frederic Effenberger , Fatima Rubio da Costa , Vahe Petrosian

We present a statistical study of chromospheric evaporation in solar flares using simultaneous observations by the RHESSI X-ray telescope and the IRIS UV spectrograph. The results are compared with radiation hydrodynamic flare models from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Viacheslav M Sadykov , Alexander G Kosovichev , Ivan N Sharykin , Graham S Kerr

During a solar flare, electrons are accelerated to non-thermal energies as a result of magnetic reconnection. These electrons then propagate upwards and downwards from the energy release site along magnetic field lines and produce radio and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-04 Shilpi Bhunia , Laura A. Hayes , Karl Ludwig Klein , Nicole Vilmer , Shane A. Maloney , Peter T. Gallagher

We use a statistically significant set of measurements to show that the field-aligned electron heat flux $q_\parallel$ in the solar wind at 1 AU is consistent with the Spitzer-H\"{a}rm collisional heat flux $q_{sh}$ for temperature gradient…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 S. D. Bale , M. Pulupa , C. Salem , C. H. K. Chen , E. Quataert
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