Flare observations

AO Benz - Living reviews in solar physics, 2017 - Springer
Solar flares are observed at all wavelengths from decameter radio waves to gamma-rays
beyond 1 GeV. This review focuses on recent observations in EUV, soft and hard X-rays …

Implications of X-ray observations for electron acceleration and propagation in solar flares

GD Holman, MJ Aschwanden, H Aurass… - Space science …, 2011 - Springer
High-energy X-rays and γ-rays from solar flares were discovered just over fifty years ago.
Since that time, the standard for the interpretation of spatially integrated flare X-ray spectra at …

A unified computational model for solar and stellar flares

JC Allred, AF Kowalski, M Carlsson - The Astrophysical Journal, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a unified computational framework that can be used to describe impulsive flares
on the Sun and on dMe stars. The models assume that the flare impulsive phase is caused …

Physical processes in magnetically driven flares on the sun, stars, and young stellar objects

AO Benz, M Güdel - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
The first flare on the Sun was observed exactly 150 years ago. During most of the long
history, only secondary effects have been noticed, so flares remained a riddle. Now the …

Measurements of the coronal acceleration region of a solar flare

S Krucker, HS Hudson, L Glesener… - The Astrophysical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) and
the Nobeyama Radioheliograph (NoRH) are used to investigate coronal hard X-ray and …

The atmospheric response to high nonthermal electron beam fluxes in solar flares. I. Modeling the brightest NUV footpoints in the X1 solar flare of 2014 March 29

AF Kowalski, JC Allred, A Daw, G Cauzzi… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The 2014 March 29 X1 solar flare (SOL20140329T17: 48) produced bright continuum
emission in the far-and near-ultraviolet (NUV) and highly asymmetric chromospheric …

Modeling the transport of nonthermal particles in flares using Fokker–Planck kinetic theory

JC Allred, M Alaoui, AF Kowalski… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe a new approach for modeling the transport of high-energy particles accelerated
during flares from the acceleration region in the solar corona until their eventual …

Role of suprathermal runaway electrons returning to the acceleration region in solar flares

M Alaoui, GD Holman, JC Allred… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
During solar flares, a large flux of energetic electrons propagate from the tops of
reconnecting magnetic flux tubes toward the lower atmosphere. Over the course of the …

Understanding breaks in flare X-ray spectra: evaluation of a cospatial collisional return-current model

M Alaoui, GD Holman - The Astrophysical Journal, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Hard X-ray (HXR) spectral breaks are explained in terms of a one-dimensional model with a
cospatial return current. We study 19 flares observed by the Ramaty High Energy Solar …

Understanding the impact of return-current losses on the X-ray emission from solar flares

GD Holman - The Astrophysical Journal, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT I obtain and examine the implications of one-dimensional analytic solutions for
return-current losses on an initially power-law distribution of energetic electrons with a sharp …