Achievements of Hinode in the first eleven years

Hinode Review Team, K Al-Janabi… - Publications of the …, 2019‏ - academic.oup.com
Hinode is Japan's third solar mission following Hinotori (1981–1982) and Yohkoh (1991–
2001): it was launched on 2006 September 22 and is in operation currently. Hinode carries …

Solar Flare Spectroscopy

L Fletcher - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2024‏ - annualreviews.org
This review covers the techniques, observations, and inferences of solar flare spectroscopy.
It is not a spectroscopist's view of solar flares but rather a solar flare physicist's view of …

Turbulent magnetic reconnection generated by intense lasers

Y **, J Zhong, X Wang, B Han, W Sun, Y Zhang… - Nature Physics, 2023‏ - nature.com
Turbulent magnetic reconnection is believed to occur in astrophysical plasmas, and it has
been suggested to be a trigger of solar flares. It often occurs in long stretched and …

A comprehensive three-dimensional radiative magnetohydrodynamic simulation of a solar flare

MCM Cheung, M Rempel, G Chintzoglou, F Chen… - Nature …, 2019‏ - nature.com
Solar and stellar flares are the most intense emitters of X-rays and extreme ultraviolet
radiation in planetary systems,. On the Sun, strong flares are usually found in newly …

[HTML][HTML] Interrogating solar flare loop models with IRIS observations 2: plasma properties, energy transport, and future directions

GS Kerr - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
During solar flares a tremendous amount of magnetic energy is released and transported
through the Sun's atmosphere and out into the heliosphere. Despite over a century of study …

Solar flare heating with turbulent suppression of thermal conduction

JC Allred, GS Kerr, AG Emslie - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022‏ - iopscience.iop.org
During solar flares, plasma is typically heated to very high temperatures, and the resulting
redistribution of energy via thermal conduction is a primary mechanism transporting energy …

3He-Rich Solar Energetic Particles: Solar Sources

R Bučík - Space Science Reviews, 2020‏ - Springer
Abstract 3 He-rich solar energetic particles (SEPs), showing up to a 10,000-fold abundance
enhancement of rare elements like 3 He or ultra-heavy nuclei, have been a puzzle for more …

Nonequilibrium Processes in the Solar Corona, Transition Region, Flares, and Solar Wind (Invited Review)

J Dudík, E Dzifčáková, N Meyer-Vernet, G Del Zanna… - Solar Physics, 2017‏ - Springer
We review the presence and signatures of the non-equilibrium processes, both non-
Maxwellian distributions and non-equilibrium ionization, in the solar transition region …

The spatial and temporal variations of turbulence in a solar flare

M Stores, NLS Jeffrey, EP Kontar - The Astrophysical Journal, 2021‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetohydrodynamic plasma turbulence is believed to play a vital role in the production of
energetic electrons during solar flares, and the nonthermal broadening of spectral lines is a …

Derivation of the entropic formula for the statistical mechanics of space plasmas

G Livadiotis - Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 2018‏ - npg.copernicus.org
Kappa distributions describe velocities and energies of plasma populations in space
plasmas. The statistical origin of these distributions is associated with the framework of …