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The solar corona is full of dynamic phenomena, e.g., solar flares, micro flares in active regions, jets in coronal holes and in the polar regions, X-ray bright points in quiet regions, etc. They are accompanied by interesting physical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-15 Noriyuki Narukage , Shin-nosuke Ishikawa , Tomoko Kawate , Shinsuke Imada , Taro Sakao

A M-class behind-the-limb solar flare on 1 May 2013 (SOL2013-05-01T02:32), accompanied by a ($\sim$ 400 km/s) CME was observed by several space-based observatories with different viewing angles. We investigated the RHESSI-observed occulted…

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

Context: The common flare scenario comprises an acceleration site in the corona and particle transport to the chromosphere. Using satellites available to date it has become possible to distinguish between the two processes of acceleration…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-19 Marina Battaglia , Arnold O. Benz

We investigate accelerated electron energy spectra for different sources in a large flare using simultaneous observations obtained with two instruments, the Nobeyama Radio Heliograph (NoRH) at 17 and 34 GHz, and the Reuven Ramaty High…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. R. Kundu , V. V. Grechnev , S. M. White , E. J. Schmahl , N. S. Meshalkina , L. K. Kashapova

In the standard model of solar eruptive events, coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and flares are associated with each other through magnetic reconnection initiated by erupting flux ropes. Observations also reveal an increasing association ratio…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-24 Changxue Chen , Yang Su , Wei Chen , Jingwei Li , Fu Yu , Weiqun Gan

Solar flares are sudden energy release events in the solar corona, resulting from magnetic reconnection, that accelerates particles and heats the ambient plasma. During a flare, there are often multiple, temporally and spatially separated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Rohit Sharma , Marina Battaglia , Yingjie Luo , Bin Chen , Sijie Yu

We analyzed changes in the height of the coronal hard X-ray (HXR) source for flares SOL2013-05-13T01:50 and SOL2013-05-13T15:51. Analysis of the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager data revealed the downward motion of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-13 Alexander N. Shabalin , Evgeniia P. Ovchinnikova , Yuri E. Charikov

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

Observations with {\em RHESSI} have enabled the detailed study of the structure of dense hard X-ray coronal sources in solar flares. The variation of source extent with electron energy has been discussed in the context of streaming of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Natasha L. S. Jeffrey , Eduard P. Kontar , Nicolas H. Bian , A. Gordon Emslie

In the standard solar flare scenario, a large number of particles are accelerated in the corona. Nonthermal electrons emit both X-rays and radio waves. Thus, correlated signatures of the acceleration process are predicted at both…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Marina Battaglia , Arnold O. Benz

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

The detailed knowledge of plasma heating and acceleration region properties presents a major observational challenge in solar flare physics. Using the Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI), the high temperature differential…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-02 Natasha Jeffrey , Eduard Kontar , Brian Dennis

The soft X-ray emissions of solar flares come mainly from the bright coronal loops at the highest temperatures normally achieved in the flare process. Their ubiquity has led to their use as a standard measure of flare occurrence and energy,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Paulo J. A. Simões , Hugh S. Hudson , Lyndsay Fletcher

We present a multi-wavelength analysis of two flare-related jets on November 13, 2014, using data from SDO/AIA, RHESSI, Hinode/XRT, and IRIS. Unlike most coronal jets where hard X-ray (HXR) emissions are usually observed near the jet base,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-13 Yixian Zhang , Sophie Musset , Lindsay Glesener , Navdeep Panesar , Gregory Fleishman

The relationship between X-ray and UV emission during flares, particularly in the context of quasi-periodic pulsations, remains unclear. To address this, we study the impulsive X-ray and UV emission during the eruptive flare of 2011 June 7…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Andrew R. Inglis , Holly R. Gilbert

The evolution of an X2.7 solar flare, that occurred in a complex $\beta\gamma\delta$ magnetic configuration region on 2003 November 3 is discussed utilizing a multi-wavelength data set. The very first signature of pre-flare coronal activity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bhuwan Joshi , P. K. Manoharan , Astrid M. Veronig , P. Pant , Kavita Pandey

X-ray observations of solar flares routinely reveal an impulsive high-energy and a gradual low-energy emission component, whose relationship is one of the key issues of solar flare study. The gradual and impulsive emission components are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Jingnan Guo , Siming Liu , Lyndsay Fletcher , Eduard P. Kontar

We investigate the sequence of events leading to the solar X1 flare SOL2014-03-29T17:48. Because of the unprecedented joint observations of an X-flare with the ground-based Dunn Solar Telescope and the spacecraft IRIS, Hinode, RHESSI,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Lucia Kleint , Marina Battaglia , Kevin Reardon , Alberto Sainz Dalda , Peter R. Young , Säm Krucker

We present analyses of the spatial and spectral evolution of hard X-ray emission observed by {\it RHESSI} during the impulsive phase of an M1.7 flare on 2003 November 13. In general, as expected, the loop top (LT) source dominates at low…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Wei Liu , Siming Liu , Yan Wei Jiang , Vahe' Petrosian