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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

This review surveys the statistics of solar X-ray flares, emphasising the new views that RHESSI has given us of the weaker events (the microflares). The new data reveal that these microflares strongly resemble more energetic events in most…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-01 I. G. Hannah , H. S. Hudson , M. Battaglia , S. Christe , J. Kasparova , S. Krucker , M. R. Kundu , A. Veronig

We report the detection of emission from a non-thermal electron distribution in a small solar microflare (GOES class A5.7) observed by the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), with supporting observation by the Reuven Ramaty High…

Soft X-ray spectra 3.33 A - 6.15 A from the RESIK instrument on CORONAS-F constitute a unique database for the study of the physical conditions of solar flare plasmas, enabling the calculation of differential emission measures. The two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 A. Kepa , R. Falewicz , M. Siarkowski , M. Pietras

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

This Research Note is in response to the recent paper by S. M. Perriyil et al. (2026). They provide measurements of the time delay (delta t) between the hard X-ray and soft X-ray peak times for 96 flares observed with RHESSI and GOES. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-07 Brian R. Dennis , Hugh Hudson , Joel Allred

In this work we study the correlation between the soft (1.6--12.4 keV, mostly thermal) and the hard (20--40 and 60--80 keV, mostly non-thermal) X-ray emission in solar flares up to the most energetic events, spanning about 4 orders of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Isola , F. Favata , G. Micela , H. S. Hudson

We investigate the signature of the photospheric albedo contribution in solar flare hard X-ray spectra, the effect of low energy cutoffs in electron spectra, and the directivity of hard X-ray emission. Using Ramaty High Energy Solar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Kasparova , E. P. Kontar , J. C. Brown

Recent progress in the diagnosis of flare fast particles is critically discussed with the main emphasis on high resolution Hard X-Ray (HXR) data from RHESSI and coordinated data from other instruments. Spectacular new photon data findings…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 John C. Brown , Eduard P. Kontar

We present the detections of 19 solar flares detected in high-energy gamma rays (above 100 MeV) with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) during its first four years of operation. Interestingly, all flares are associated with fairly fast…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 LAT collaboration

We present the statistical analysis of 33 flare-related coronal jets, and discuss the link between the jet and the flare properties in these events. We selected jets that were observed between 2010 and 2016 by the Atmospheric Imaging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 Sophie Musset , Mariana Jeunon , Lindsay Glesener

We study the waiting time distributions of solar flares observed in hard X-rays with ISEE-3/ICE, HXRBS/SMM, WATCH/GRANAT, BATSE/CGRO, and RHESSI. Although discordant results and interpretations have been published earlier, based on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Markus J. Aschwanden , James M. McTiernan

Solar flares are known to be prolific electron accelerators, yet identifying the mechanism(s) for such efficient electron acceleration in solar flare (and similar astrophysical settings) presents a major challenge. This is due in part to a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-18 Eduard P. Kontar , A. Gordon Emslie , Galina G. Motorina , Brian R. Dennis

The GOES M2-class solar flare, SOL2010-06-12T00:57, was modest in many respects yet exhibited remarkable acceleration of energetic particles. The flare produced an ~50 s impulsive burst of hard X- and \gamma-ray emission up to at least 400…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 Fermi GBM Collaboration , Fermi LAT Collaboration , B. R. Dennis , R. A. Schwartz , A. K. Tolbert

[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 investigate the X-ray and UV emission detected by RHESSI and TRACE in the context of a solar flare on the 16th November 2002 with the goal of better understanding the evolution of the flare. We analysed the characteristics of the X-ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Hamish A. S. Reid , Nicole Vilmer , Guillaume Aulanier , Etienne Pariat

The degree of linear polarization in solar flares has not yet been precisely determined despite multiple attempts to measure it with different missions. The high energy range in particular has very rarely been explored, due to its greater…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Suarez-Garcia , W. Hajdas , C. Wigger , K. Arzner , M. Guedel , A. Zehnder , P. Grigis

We present systematic analysis of spatio-temporal evolution of sources of hard X-ray (HXR) pulsations in solar flares. We concentrate on disk flares whose impulsive phase are accompanied by a series of more than three peaks (pulsations) of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-25 S. A. Kuznetsov , I. V. Zimovets , A. S. Morgachev , A. B. Struminsky

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

Solar flares are complex phenomena emitting all types of electromagnetic radiation, and accelerating particles on timescales of minutes, converting magnetic energy to thermal, radiative, and kinetic energy through magnetic reconnections. As…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-01 Crisel Suarez , Christopher S. Moore