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A reconnecting current layer is a `heart' of a solar flare, because it is a place of magnetic-field energy release. However there are no direct observations of these layers. The aim of our work is to understand why we actually do not…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-18 A. V. Oreshina , I. V. Oreshina

In this paper, the energy budgets of two single-loop like flares observed in X- ray are analysed under the assumption that non-thermal electrons (NTEs) are the only source of plasma heating during all phases of both events. The flares were…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-19 R. Falewicz

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

RHESSI observations of a solar flare showing continuous motions of double hard X-ray sources interpreted as footpoints of magnetic loops are presented. The temporal evolution shows many distinct emission peaks of duration of some tens of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Paolo C. Grigis , Arnold O. Benz

One of the most important objectives of solar physics is the physical understanding of the solar atmosphere, the structure of which is also described in terms of the density (N) and temperature (T) distributions of the atmospheric matter.…

The aim of the thesis is the study of properties of solar flares via reconstruction of energy distributions of accelerated/heated electrons, diagnostics of flare plasma based on EUV and X-ray observations, as well as the estimation of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-31 Galina G. Motorina

Solar flares are explosive events in the solar corona, representing fast conversion of magnetic energy into thermal and kinetic energy, and hence radiation, due to magnetic reconnection. Modelling is essential for understanding and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 M. Gordovskyy , P. K. Browning , R. F. Pinto

We present new constraints on the high-temperature emission measure of a non-flaring solar active region using observations from the recently flown Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager sounding rocket payload. FOXSI has performed the first…

The spectrum of gyrosynchrotron emission from solar flares generally peaks in the microwave range. Its optically-thin, high-frequency component, above the spectral peak, is often used for diagnostics of the nonthermal electrons and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 Gregory D. Fleishman , Maria A. Loukitcheva , Varvara Yu. Kopnina , Gelu M. Nita , Dale E. Gary

Solar flares are large-scale releases of energy in the solar atmosphere, which are characterised by rapid changes in the hydrodynamic properties of plasma from the photosphere to the corona. Solar physicists have typically attempted to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-26 S. Adamakis , C. L. Raftery , R. W. Walsh , P. T. Gallagher

Coronal density, temperature and heat flux distributions for the equatorial and polar corona have been deduced by Lemaire [2012] from Saito's model of averaged coronal white light (WL) brightness and polarization observations. They are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 V. Pierrard , K. Borremans , J. F. Lemaire

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

Using a model of particle acceleration and transport in solar flares, we investigate the height distribution of coronal electrons by focusing on the energy-dependent pitch-angle scattering. When pitch-angle scattering is not included, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Takashi Minoshima , Satoshi Masuda , Yoshizumi Miyoshi , Kanya Kusano

Solar flares result from the rapid conversion of stored magnetic energy within the Sun's corona. These energy releases are associated with coronal magnetic loops, which are rooted in dense photospheric plasma and are passively transported…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 M. Berretti , S. Mestici , L. Giovannelli , D. Del Moro , M. Stangalini , F. Giannattasio , F. Berrilli

Spatially-resolved X-ray observations are the key to understanding electron acceleration in solar flares. Currently, the underlying processes that efficiently energize solar flare particles are poorly constrained. Abundant flare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-09 Morgan Stores , Natasha Jeffrey , Ewan Dickson , James McLaughlin , Eduard Kontar

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

The Sun's corona has interested researchers for multiple reasons, including the search for solution for the famous coronal heating problem and a purely practical consideration of predicting geomagnetic storms on Earth. There exist numerous…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-13 Dan Aksim , Alexey Melnikov , Dmitry Pavlov , Sergey Kurdubov

Gamma-ray emitting solar flares observed with Yohkoh were analyzed from a statistical viewpoint. The four-band hard X-ray (15--95 keV) photometric data, taken with the Hard X-ray Telescope onboard Yohkoh, were utilized in combination with…

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

This thesis strives to improve our understanding of solar activity, specifically the behaviour of solar flares and coronal mass ejections. An investigation into the hydrodynamic evolution of a confined solar flare was carried out using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-19 Claire L. Raftery