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		<title>Revised Point-Spread Functions of AIA and their effect on DEM analyses</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Dbarrous: Created page with &amp;quot;{{Infobox Nugget |name = Nugget |title = Revised Point-Spread Functions of AIA and their effect on DEM analyses |number = 478 |first_author = Stefan HOFMEISTER, |second_author = Daniel Wolf SAVIN, and Michael HAHN  |next_nugget = Unrequited currents  |previous_nugget = {{#ask: Category:Nugget RHESSI Nugget Index::477}} }}  == Introduction ==  Since 2010, the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly  [https://aia.lmsal.com AIA] has been imaging the Sun in the extreme-ultravio...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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== Introduction ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Since 2010, the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly &lt;br /&gt;
[https://aia.lmsal.com AIA] has been imaging&lt;br /&gt;
the Sun in the extreme-ultraviolet &lt;br /&gt;
([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ultraviolet EUV]) range, &lt;br /&gt;
providing valuable&lt;br /&gt;
insights into the structure and dynamics of the solar corona.&lt;br /&gt;
These data have had an enormous influence across many branches of&lt;br /&gt;
solar physics.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
However, EUV imaging presents a unique challenge: the imaging&lt;br /&gt;
wavelength is rather close to the scale of the mirror&#039;s roughness,&lt;br /&gt;
which leads to significant long-distance instrumental &lt;br /&gt;
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scattering_from_rough_surfaces scattering].&lt;br /&gt;
This scattering can artificially increase observed intensities in&lt;br /&gt;
darker regions, such as the off-limb corona and coronal holes, while&lt;br /&gt;
reducing intensities in brighter areas, like active regions and&lt;br /&gt;
flares.&lt;br /&gt;
Scattering obviously can lead to a serious systematic bias in any quantitative&lt;br /&gt;
analysis of the beautiful AIA images.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== A new treatment of scattering ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Previously, it was difficult to quantify this scattering accurately,&lt;br /&gt;
limiting our ability to correct AIA images for these effects. &lt;br /&gt;
To address this we have revised AIA&#039;s point-spread &lt;br /&gt;
functions &lt;br /&gt;
([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_spread_function PSFs]), which &lt;br /&gt;
describe the imaging function of the optics, including its scattering behavior&lt;br /&gt;
(Ref. [1]).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Using partially&lt;br /&gt;
lunar-occulted AIA images, we refined the PSF tails and recalibrated&lt;br /&gt;
the diffraction patterns that arise from the meshes that support&lt;br /&gt;
the filters. &lt;br /&gt;
We demonstrate this in Figure 1 for the AIA 171 &amp;amp;Acirc; channel.&lt;br /&gt;
By comparing the scattered-light intensity in lunar-occulted areas&lt;br /&gt;
to the solar disk&#039;s intensity distribution, we first estimate the PSF.&lt;br /&gt;
Then, we test the accuracy of the PSF by predicting scattered light&lt;br /&gt;
in other lunar-occulted images, where a well-fitted PSF allows us to&lt;br /&gt;
accurately predict the observed scattered-light intensity in&lt;br /&gt;
the occulted regions. &lt;br /&gt;
In this example, our PSF follows the observed intensity profile well, &lt;br /&gt;
showing that the PSF is robust.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File: 478f1.png|thumb|center|700px|Figure 1: &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The 2016 Oct 30 eclipse. Left, an AIA 171 &amp;amp;Acirc; image of the eclipse. &lt;br /&gt;
Right, the measured and simulated intensity profiles in the occulted region&lt;br /&gt;
along the grey dashed line in the image. &lt;br /&gt;
The yellow line shows the measured&lt;br /&gt;
intensities; the red line the simulated intensities using our new&lt;br /&gt;
PSF; the green line using the AIA team PSF; and the blue line using&lt;br /&gt;
the commonly used PSF from Ref. [2].&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We applied this method across all AIA channels simultaneously, using&lt;br /&gt;
10 lunar-occulted images from 2010-2014 as input to increase the&lt;br /&gt;
robustness against calibration errors. &lt;br /&gt;
Each PSF and its uncertainty&lt;br /&gt;
were calculated by bootstrapping the lunar-occulted images 100 times&lt;br /&gt;
and then validated on lunar-occulted images from 2015-2023 and on&lt;br /&gt;
flare images. &lt;br /&gt;
Our findings reveals that AIA scatters and diffracts&lt;br /&gt;
approximately 37-55% of light over medium-to-long distances, depending&lt;br /&gt;
on the AIA channel (see Figure 2). &lt;br /&gt;
The uncertainties in each AIA&lt;br /&gt;
channel primarily stem from the dark-current calibration uncertainties.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File: 478f2.png|thumb|center|700px|Figure 2: &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
(a) Amount of diffracted and scattered light by the AIA channels.&lt;br /&gt;
For each channel, the black vertical bar markes the median value,&lt;br /&gt;
the dark grey box the 1 sigma uncertainty, the light gray box the&lt;br /&gt;
2 sigma uncertainty, and the color-shaded areas the associated&lt;br /&gt;
probability distribution. &lt;br /&gt;
Each of the vertical gray and white stripes&lt;br /&gt;
mark AIA channels that are on the same of the four AIA telescopes.&lt;br /&gt;
(b) Cylindrically averaged AIA 171 PSF weights as a function of&lt;br /&gt;
distance to the PSF center. &lt;br /&gt;
(c) Amount of light that is scattered and diffracted farther than &lt;br /&gt;
a given distance.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We further evaluated the impact of the updated PSFs on the image&lt;br /&gt;
quality and subsequent analysis (illustrated in Figure 3). &lt;br /&gt;
As expected, dark regions become significantly darker, with up to 90%&lt;br /&gt;
of the observed intensity in coronal holes (at 193 &amp;amp;Acirc;) found to be&lt;br /&gt;
instrumental scatter (not shown here). &lt;br /&gt;
Bright regions, such as&lt;br /&gt;
active regions and flares, increase in brightness by about 30%.&lt;br /&gt;
When applying a differential emission measure (DEM) analysis using&lt;br /&gt;
the Hannah-Kontar method (Ref. [3]) to the corrected images, off-limb regions&lt;br /&gt;
showed a faster decreases in emission measure (EM) with distance&lt;br /&gt;
to the solar disk and slight shifts in the DEM-averaged temperature.&lt;br /&gt;
For flares, the low-temperature DEM peak remains largely unchanged,&lt;br /&gt;
but the flare DEM peak increases by about 50% in height, suggesting&lt;br /&gt;
that PSF corrections do not just increase the image brightness but&lt;br /&gt;
also lead the DEM algorithm to converge on a solution with a higher&lt;br /&gt;
plasma content.  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File: 478f3.png|thumb|center|700px|Figure 3: &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Comparison of DEM results for solar regions using different PSF&lt;br /&gt;
deconvolutions. &lt;br /&gt;
(a) AIA 193 &amp;amp;Acirc; quiet Sun off-limb region. &lt;br /&gt;
(b) EM and&lt;br /&gt;
DEM-averaged temperature along the green box marked in (a). &lt;br /&gt;
(g) AIA 94 &amp;amp;Acirc; flare image. &lt;br /&gt;
(h) DEM of the flaring region marked in green in (g). &lt;br /&gt;
In (b) and (h), the blue lines give the DEM results using the&lt;br /&gt;
original AIA images as input; the orange line using our new PSF;&lt;br /&gt;
the green line using the AIA team PSF; and the PSF from Ref. [2].&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Conclusion ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
EUV imagers like AIA scatter a significant fraction of photons over&lt;br /&gt;
large angular distances. &lt;br /&gt;
Correcting for these effects is often important.&lt;br /&gt;
With PSF deconvolution, dark regions such as coronal holes and&lt;br /&gt;
off-limb areas appear significantly darker, while bright regions&lt;br /&gt;
like active regions, flares, and coronal bright points become notably&lt;br /&gt;
brighter. &lt;br /&gt;
The improvements described here should have a quantitative impact on &lt;br /&gt;
analyses of AIA data, especially including DEM studies.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The revised PSFs for AIA, including a description how to use them correctly,&lt;br /&gt;
can be found [https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/DYT4ZL here].&lt;br /&gt;
For full details, see Ref. [1].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[1] [https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024arXiv241008967H &amp;quot;Revised Point-Spread Functions for the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory&amp;quot;]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[2] [https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013ApJ...765..144P &amp;quot;Point-spread Functions for the Extreme-ultraviolet Channels of SDO/AIA Telescopes&amp;quot;]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[3] [https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012A&amp;amp;A...539A.146H &amp;quot;Differential emission measures from the regularized inversion of Hinode and SDO data&amp;quot;]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Dbarrous: Created page with &amp;quot;{{Infobox Nugget |name = Nugget |title = How much of the energy in flare-accelerated electrons reaches the chromosphere? |number = 477 |first_author = M. ALAOUI |second_author = G. HOLMAN  |next_nugget = AIA point-spread function and DEM |previous_nugget = {{#ask: Category:Nugget RHESSI Nugget Index::476}} }}  == Introduction ==  Weakly relativistic electrons play an important role in  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_flare solar flares]  as a mechanism for e...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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|first_author = M. ALAOUI&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = G. HOLMAN &lt;br /&gt;
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== Introduction ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Weakly relativistic electrons play an important role in &lt;br /&gt;
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_flare solar flares] &lt;br /&gt;
as a mechanism for energy transport.&lt;br /&gt;
We often treat these electrons as in a thick-target laboratory &lt;br /&gt;
X-ray source, in which the fast electrons come to a complete stop as&lt;br /&gt;
they radiate&lt;br /&gt;
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremsstrahlung bremsstrahlung] photons.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In both the standard (cold) collisional thick target model (CTTM)&lt;br /&gt;
and the warm-CTTM, Coulomb collisions between the flare-accelerated&lt;br /&gt;
energetic electron beam and ambient plasma electrons are the&lt;br /&gt;
primary energy loss mechanism from the injection site down to the&lt;br /&gt;
chromosphere. &lt;br /&gt;
However, since these energetic electrons must typically&lt;br /&gt;
have very large fluxes (on the order of &lt;br /&gt;
10&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;34&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;-10&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;36&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt; electrons/s)&lt;br /&gt;
and propagate from their acceleration site at the looptop to the lower solar&lt;br /&gt;
atmosphere, they must be accompanied by an oppositely directed&lt;br /&gt;
return current which is generated as a result of the large&lt;br /&gt;
charge displacement in the solar corona. &lt;br /&gt;
The impact of the return current on&lt;br /&gt;
the beams energy losses has been studied extensively assuming that&lt;br /&gt;
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohm%27s_law Ohm&#039;s law] governs the &lt;br /&gt;
dynamics of the interaction. &lt;br /&gt;
Our work (Ref. [1],[2]) examines the conditions&lt;br /&gt;
under which this is a good assumption and conditions where collisionless&lt;br /&gt;
effects, especially the acceleration of runaway electrons out of&lt;br /&gt;
the ambient RC plasma, need to be taken into account. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Energy deposition in the corona &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;vs.&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; the chromosphere ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Our earlier work (Ref. [1]) calculates the steady-state field-aligned energy losses in a 1D&lt;br /&gt;
model, considering Coulomb collisions and return-current deceleration.&lt;br /&gt;
We include runaway electrons accelerated out of the ambient plasma, in a &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;warm-target&amp;quot; approximation (see &lt;br /&gt;
[https://research.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/How_to_better_determine_the_power_in_non-thermal_electrons_from_observed_X-ray_spectra&lt;br /&gt;
Nugget No. 264], for example). &lt;br /&gt;
This warm-target capability is especially important for lower (and higher) &lt;br /&gt;
values of the low-energy cutoff (and injected&lt;br /&gt;
electron power-law spectral index). &lt;br /&gt;
The calculations not only show the energy deposition in the corona&lt;br /&gt;
but also the total potential drop in the corona, which can be observed as &lt;br /&gt;
a flattening in hard X-ray spectra at lower photon energies.&lt;br /&gt;
We also discuss regions where the return-current losses can be&lt;br /&gt;
neglected altogether, and alternatively where RC losses are significant&lt;br /&gt;
and where runaway electrons also need to be included.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Additionally, in Ref. [2], we find&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Implications for initial conditions in atmospheric response calculations: Notice that at lower coronal temperatures and/or densities, collisionless effects are increasingly significant with the injected flux density.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* The conclusion that injected electron flux densities are inconsistent with negligible return current losses at the HXR peak times for two X-class RHESSI flares: SOL2002-Jul-23T00:20 and SOL2006-Dec-06T18:30.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Figure 1 summarizes this work.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File: 477f1.png|thumb|center|600px|Figure 1: &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Ratio of the nonthermal energy flux density at the transition region&lt;br /&gt;
to the injected energy flux density at the looptop.  &lt;br /&gt;
Each panel shows calculations using the same low-energy cutoff, &lt;br /&gt;
spectral index, loop length and coronal density as coronal temperature&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;vs.&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; injected electron energy flux. &lt;br /&gt;
The various curves represent the conditions for which: (1) the&lt;br /&gt;
fraction of the return current carried by runaway electrons at the&lt;br /&gt;
looptop is 1% and 30% (solid gray curves), (2) the maximum return-current&lt;br /&gt;
electric field magnitude normalized to the &lt;br /&gt;
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreicer_field Dreicer field]&lt;br /&gt;
is equal&lt;br /&gt;
to 0.15 (solid red); above this value even our quasi-collisional&lt;br /&gt;
model is insufficient to account for the dynamics. &lt;br /&gt;
The vertical dashed lines show the conditions for the energetic electron &lt;br /&gt;
density to be 10% of the ambient return-current density.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== What is the dominant collisionless effect? ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Collisionless effects include acceleration of runaway electrons&lt;br /&gt;
which are included in the model and current-driven instabilities,&lt;br /&gt;
which are not included so far. &lt;br /&gt;
However, we show the conditions where these do need to be taken into &lt;br /&gt;
account.  &lt;br /&gt;
The return-current  drift speed varies along the legs of the loop, but &lt;br /&gt;
comparing its maximum value to the&lt;br /&gt;
local electron thermal speed is sufficient to test whether the flux&lt;br /&gt;
density threshold for generating a current-driven instability is&lt;br /&gt;
met.  &lt;br /&gt;
Figure 2 shows that accelerating runaway electrons occurs for&lt;br /&gt;
lower injected electron flux densities compared to the lowest threshold&lt;br /&gt;
for a current-driven instability if the electron and ion temperatures&lt;br /&gt;
are equal.  Our results must be used to check for self-consistency&lt;br /&gt;
of the assumptions used in the interpretation of HXR spectra and&lt;br /&gt;
of the atmospheric response to the electron injection into the solar&lt;br /&gt;
plasma.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File: 477f2.png|thumb|center|400px|Figure 2: &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The ratio of maximum drift speed to electron thermal speed for a&lt;br /&gt;
range of injected energy flux densities (x-axis) and co- spatial&lt;br /&gt;
coronal temperatures (y-axis) and for two coronal density values&lt;br /&gt;
(3 x 10&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;9&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt; and 3 1x 10&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;10&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt; cm&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;-3&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;, on &lt;br /&gt;
the left and right panels, respectively.&lt;br /&gt;
Various curves are also overplotted that show (1) the conditions&lt;br /&gt;
for the return current to be carried by 1% runaway electrons.&lt;br /&gt;
This is a somewhat arbitrary number showing the limit between purely&lt;br /&gt;
collisional and quasi-collisionless propagation. &lt;br /&gt;
(2) The threshold for a current driven instability to be generated &lt;br /&gt;
if the electron and ion temperatures are equal. &lt;br /&gt;
Note that contrary to the runaway&lt;br /&gt;
acceleration, this threshold is not calculated self-consistently.&lt;br /&gt;
(3) The threshold for the quasi-collisionless model in our paper&lt;br /&gt;
to be a valid approximation for energy losses at a normalized RC&lt;br /&gt;
electric field of 0.15.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Conclusions ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Return currents are non-negligible under the conditions defined in&lt;br /&gt;
this paper. &lt;br /&gt;
Specifically, for sufficiently large injected flux&lt;br /&gt;
densities and/or sufficiently low temperatures, the return current&lt;br /&gt;
is a drifting Maxwellian or a Maxwellian with a runaway tail with&lt;br /&gt;
significant energy losses. &lt;br /&gt;
Additional work needs to be done to build&lt;br /&gt;
self-consistent models of the beam/return-current propagation especially at the&lt;br /&gt;
highest injected flux densities and/or sufficiently low co-spatial&lt;br /&gt;
temperatures and densities.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[1] [https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021ApJ...917...74A &amp;quot;Role of Suprathermal Runaway Electrons Returning to the Acceleration Region in Solar Flares&amp;quot;]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[2] [https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024ApJ...974..177A/abstract &amp;quot;Reduction of the Downward Energy Flux of Nonthermal Electrons in the Solar Flare Corona due to Cospatial Return-current Losses&amp;quot;]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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&lt;div&gt;Welcome to the [[RHESSI Science Nuggets]]: science notes from [[RHESSI]].  The following is a time-ordered list of the latest Nuggets added to the wiki.  An [[:Category:Nugget|alphabetical list of wiki Nuggets]] is also available as well as [[:Category:RHESSI Nugget List|yearly lists]]. We welcome volunteer authors - please see our page of [[Help:For_Authors| help for authors]]&lt;br /&gt;
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|first_author =Stefan HOFMEISTER,&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = Daniel Wolf SAVIN, and Michael HAHN&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  18 November 2024&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Substantial revisions of the AIA point-response functions&lt;br /&gt;
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|title = How much of the energy in flare-accelerated electrons reaches the chromosphere?&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 477&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Meriem ALAOUI&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = and Gordon HOLMAN&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  11 November 2024&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Keeping flare-accelerated electrons out of the chromosphere&lt;br /&gt;
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|first_author = Andy S. H. TO&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  4 November 2024&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Reconnection outflow feeds abundance variations&lt;br /&gt;
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|first_author = Hugh HUDSON&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = and Alphonse STERLING&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  28 October 2024&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Hot onsets appear even in the most active solar conditions&lt;br /&gt;
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|number = 474&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Ross PALLISTER&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = and Natasha JEFFREY&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  21 October 2024&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Getting closer to an understanding of how solar energetic particles &amp;quot;escape&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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|first_author = Ioannis KONTOGIANNIS&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  14 October 2024&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Large non-neutralized electric currents flow through the active-region corona&lt;br /&gt;
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|first_author = Hugh HUDSON&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  7 October 2024&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  The geomagnetic effect (SFE/crochet) that will calibrate the Carrington flare&lt;br /&gt;
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|number = 471&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Andrea Francesco BATTAGLIA&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  30 September 2024&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Microflares with hard X-ray spectra are a well-defined class, and invariably have one footpoint embedded in a sunspot &lt;br /&gt;
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|number = 470&lt;br /&gt;
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|publish_date =  16 September 2024&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  A self-consistent treatment of non-thermal electron spectra points to kappa distributions&lt;br /&gt;
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|publish_date =  15 March 2024&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Filament eruptions/Hyder flares/&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;disparitions brusques&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; may all show HOPE &lt;br /&gt;
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|number = 467&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Takato OTSU &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  19 February 2024&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Whole-Sun spectroscopic observations can readily detect ejecta &lt;br /&gt;
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|first_author = Bruno ARSIOLI and Elena ORLANDO&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  15 January 2024&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  The high-energy solar gamma radiation shows inexplicable but fascinating properties&lt;br /&gt;
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|first_author = Ivan ZIMOVETS&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  25 December 2023&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Pulsations precede a flare, but seem unrelated&lt;br /&gt;
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|first_author = Malcolm DRUETT&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  18 December 2023&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Fitting beam electrons into multi-dimensional models&lt;br /&gt;
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|first_author = Galina G. MOTORINA&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  11 December 2023&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  A flare with an increasing sub-THz spectrum and sub-THZ precursor information&lt;br /&gt;
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|publish_date =  27 November 2023&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Bright EUV rowel-like structures can result from null-point reconnection&lt;br /&gt;
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|number = 461&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Sijie YU&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  20 November 2023&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Maser action above a sunspot&lt;br /&gt;
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|number = 460&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Hugh HUDSON&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = and Jim McTiernan&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  13 November 2023&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Quantifying flare precursors on a few-minute time scale&lt;br /&gt;
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|number = 459&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Keitarou MATSUMOTO&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  6 November 2023&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Solar evidence for conservation of second adiabatic invariant in particle motion&lt;br /&gt;
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|first_author = Helle BAKKE&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  30 October 2023&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  The behavior of nanoflare fast electrons in Bifrost models&lt;br /&gt;
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|first_author = Paulo SIM&amp;amp;Otilde;ES et al.&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  23 October 2023&lt;br /&gt;
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|number = 456&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Hugh HUDSON&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = and Ed CLIVER&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  25 September 2023&lt;br /&gt;
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|first_author = Hugh HUDSON&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = and Gordon EMSLIE&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  11 September 2023&lt;br /&gt;
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|second_author = and John BEACOM&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  21 August 2023&lt;br /&gt;
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|publish_date =  12 June 2023&lt;br /&gt;
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|first_author = Nicole VILMER and Tomin JAMES&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  29 May 2023&lt;br /&gt;
|description = Linking electron populations escaping from the Sun with those that RHESSI detects.&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Solar flare hard X-rays from the anchor points of an eruptive filament &lt;br /&gt;
|number = 450&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Muriel STIEFEL&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  15 May 2023&lt;br /&gt;
|description = A rare &amp;quot;four-ribbon&amp;quot; flare has been detected in hard X-rays.&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Did a Solar Flare Accelerate all the Ambient Electrons in the Coronal Acceleration Region?...&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 449&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Gordon EMSLIE, Eduard KONTAR,&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = Galina MOTORINA, and Brian DENNIS&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  1 May 2023&lt;br /&gt;
|description = Considering SOL2017-09-10, probably not.&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Diagnostics of Spatially-Extended Turbulent Acceleration and Transport&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 448&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Morgan STORES&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  24 April 2023&lt;br /&gt;
|description = Drilling down into the detailed structure of solar-flare energy release by including turbulence with particle acceleration.&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   RHESSI&#039;s Re-entry&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 447&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Pascal SAINT-HILAIRE and&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = Hugh HUDSON&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  17 April 2023&lt;br /&gt;
|description = The final demise of RHESSI is this week&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   A Glasgow geomagnetic observation of a solar flare&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 446&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Hugh HUDSON, John MALONE-LEIGH,&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = Graham WOAN, and Chris OSBORNE &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  13 March 2023&lt;br /&gt;
|description = Irish and Scottish geomagnetic observatories see a crochet much like that of the Carrington event&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Particle Acceleration in Two Coronal Jets&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 445&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Yixian ZHANG&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  27 February 2023&lt;br /&gt;
|description = Coronal jets with hard X-ray sources at disjoint locations&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   The Curious First Sunquake of Solar Cycle 25‎&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 444&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Alexander KOSOVICHEV&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  13 February 2023&lt;br /&gt;
|description = A double whammy: two distinct sunquakes from SOL2022-05-10.&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Hard X-ray Pulsations via Gaussian Decomposition&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 443&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Hannah COLLIER and Laura HAYES&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  30 January 2023&lt;br /&gt;
|description = Flare hard X-ray time variations decomposed objectively&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   A possible coronal magnetic flare precursor&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 442&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Enrico LANDI&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  16 January 2023&lt;br /&gt;
|description = Novel measurements of the coronal magnetic field may help with flare prediction&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   A slow HOPE with microwave context&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 441&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Hugh HUDSON&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  12 December 2022&lt;br /&gt;
|description = A new microwave facility at Chashan Observatory, and a prototypical HOPE&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =    Rapid variations of Si IV spectra in a flare observed by IRIS at a sub-second cadence&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 440&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Juraj L&amp;amp;Ouml;RIN&amp;amp;#268;&amp;amp;Iacute;K&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  14 November 2022&lt;br /&gt;
|description = Transition-region lines in a flare have a Doppler component revealing quasi-periodic pulsations&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =    A Significant Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance Associated with a Massive Gamma-ray Burst&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 439&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Laura HAYES and Peter GALLAGHER&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  31 October 2022&lt;br /&gt;
|description = A first SID observed in broad daylight, from a source far far away&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =    Effects of Coronal Structures on the Dynamics of the Global Coronal Wave of SOL2017-09-10‎&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 438&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Huidong HU, Ying D. LIU, and Bei ZHU&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  17 October 2022&lt;br /&gt;
|description = The amazing global coronal wave of SOL2017-09-10 wrapped around the whole Sun, and displayed transmission and reflection at both polar coronal holes&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =    KW-Sun: The Konus-Wind Solar Flare Database in Hard X-Ray and Soft Gamma-Ray Ranges&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 437&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Alexandra LYSENKO&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  26 September 2022&lt;br /&gt;
|description = An unrivaled hard X-ray and gamma-ray database is entering its third activity maximum&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =    First Detection of Kink Oscillations with Solar Orbiter&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 436&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Sihui ZHONG et al.&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  19 September 2022&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  SolO sees coronal oscillations as well as AIA can, and even better&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =    Energetic Neutral Hydrogen from Large Solar Flares&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 435&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Glenn MASON&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  6 September 2022&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  A rediscovered data treasury reveals the occurrence of many flare/CME events producing solar high-energy neutral atoms&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Fifty-year Anniversary of the First Detection of Gamma rays from a Solar Flare&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 434&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Jim Ryan,&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = Brian Dennis, and Phil Dunphy&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  8 August 2022&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  The rich astrophysics of gamma-ray astronomy began with solar observations fifty years ago&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Fast Prograde Flows in Solar Active Regions&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 433&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Hugh HUDSON&lt;br /&gt;
 |publish_date =  25 July 2022&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Unexpected, unpredicted, and not modeled yet - weird flows in hot active-region loops&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Undetected Minority-polarity Flux, Moss, and Coronal Heating&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 432&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Yi-Ming WANG&lt;br /&gt;
 |publish_date =  11 July 2022&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  There&#039;s plenty of room in &amp;quot;unipolar&amp;quot; active regions for both polarities, and there is good evidence for them&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Thermal/Nonthermal with MinXSS and RHESSI&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 431&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Shunsaku NAGASAWA&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  13 June 2022&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Time-domain studies of improved X-ray spectra reveal a &amp;quot;super-hot&#039; component&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Sun-as-a-star spectroscopic observations of the line-of-sight velocity of a solar eruption on October 28, 2021&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 430&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Yu XU&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = and Hui TIAN&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  30 May 2022&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  The observation of the full 3d velocity of a CME, for an anniversary event&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Carl Størmer&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 429&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Hugh HUDSON&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = and Lyndsay FLETCHER&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  15 April 2022&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Størmer and the theory of trapping in loops&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Solar Hard X-rays with Insight&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 428&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Wei WANG&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = and Ping ZHANG&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  21 March 2022&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  A spectacular limb flare introduces Insight/HXMT, a new observational resource&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Probing chromospheric current sheets using SST and ALMA co-observations&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 427&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Jo&amp;amp;atilde;o da SILVA SANTOS&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  21 February 2022&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Emerging magnetic flux appears in ALMA images reflecting coronal current sheets&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   A demonstration of STIX hard X-ray imaging spectroscopy capabilities for an X-class flare (SOL2021-10-28)&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 426&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Andrea BATTAGLIA, Hannah COLLIER,&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = and S&amp;amp;auml;m KRUCKER&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  7 February 2022&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  STIX imaging of an X-class flare marks its success&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   A solar flare driven by thermal conduction observed in mid-infrared&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 425&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Guillermo GIM&amp;amp;Eacute;NEZ de CASTRO&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  24 January 2022&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Strong 10-micron emission from a GOES C2 flare suggests conductive heating&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Disk Occultation of a Lopsided Sun‎&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 424&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Hugh HUDSON,&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = Stephen WHITE and S&amp;amp;auml;m KRUCKER&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  10 January 2022&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Observing a spotless Sun can enable observations of the faint corona.&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Resolving two distinct thermal X-ray components in a compound solar flare&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 423&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Zhenjun ZHOU&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = and Rui LIU&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  28 December 2021&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Superhot coronal sources may be independent loop systems&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Bridging solar flares to coronal mass ejections&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 422&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Markus ASCHWANDEN&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  14 December 2021&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  The Neupert effect allows us to trace coronal mass ejections seamlessly&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   The Jakimiec Diagnostic Diagram&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 421&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Hugh HUDSON&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  29 November 2021&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  The joint variation of GOES temperature and emission measure discloses new features via an old tool&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   First look at ALMA/HInode/IRIS microflares&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 420&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Toshifumi SHIMIZU&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = et al.&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  8 November 2021&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  High-resolution ALMA and multiwavelength observations of microflaring&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Thomson scattering near sunspots&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 419&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Pascal Saint-Hilaire&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = et al.&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  25 October 2021&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Completing the modeling of low-coronal Thomson polarimetry&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   A Non-PFSS Global Coronal Model&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 418&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Oliver RICE&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = and Anthony YEATES&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  11 October 2021&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Modeling as convenient as PFSS but much more realistic&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Manifold Nonthermality&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 417&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Marina BATTAGLIA&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = et al.&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  27 September 2021&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Even weak flares involve multiple sites of non thermal activity&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   X-Rays from a Type I Radio Burst&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 416&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = R.  RAMESH&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  20 September 2021&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  A first identification of type I radio emission with hot plasma&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Do Hot Onsets Predict Flare Magnitudes?&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 415&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Hugh HUDSON&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  30 August 2021&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Maybe we can tell how big a flare is going to be from its initial development...&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Confined or Eruptive?&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 414&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Ting LI et al.&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  16 August 2021&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Increased magnetic flux reduces CME eruptivity&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Impulsive and Gradual Eruptive Gamma Flares and Associated CMEs&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 413&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Alexey STRUMINSKY,&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = Irina GRIGORIEVA and Andrei SADOVSKI&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  19 July 2021&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Extreme behavior of flare/CME events explained by environment&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   The Morphology of Flare Time Profiles&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 412&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Larisa KASHAPOVA &lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = et al.&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  12 July 2021&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Systematic comparison of solar and stellar flaring time profiles&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Flare Pulsation and the Heliosphere&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 411&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Brendan CLARKE&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = et al.&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  5 July 2021&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Flare pulsations link closely to the distant heliosphere&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   STIX, the Hard X-Ray Telescope on board Solar Orbiter&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 410&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Andrea Francesco BATTAGLIA&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = and S&amp;amp;auml;m KRUCKER&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  28 June 2021&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  STIX is operational and producing great data&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Nonequilibrium Ionization of Flare Plasma Observed by Hinode/EIS&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 409&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Shinsuke IMADA&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  14 June 2021&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Evidence for non-equilibrium ionization in the current sheet of SOL2017-09-10&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Effects of Flares on Solar p-modes&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 408&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Maria-Cristina RABELLO SOARES&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = and Frederic BAUDIN&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  26 April 2021&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  No detectable p-mode amplitude changes due to solar flares&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Subsecond Spikes in Solar Flare X-ray Flux as Seen by Fermi GBM&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 407&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author =Trevor KNUTH &lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = and Lindsay GLESENER&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  19 April 2021&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  A new analysis technique pushes hard X-ray time scales to 0.1 sec or faster&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Negative He 10830 Flare Ribbons and Non-thermal Electrons&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 406&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Graham KERR &lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  12 April 2021&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  A 1D radiation hydrodynamics model can explain the dark leading edges of He I flare ribbons&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Tracing the sources of gradual solar energetic particle events&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 405&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = David H. BROOKS &lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = and Stephanie L. YARDLEY&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  29 March 2021&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Chemical abundances in SEPs suggest an origin in flare-related moss regions&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  The Superflare SOL2017-09-06: from submm to mid-IR&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 404&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Guillermo (Guigue) GIM&amp;amp;Eacute;NEZ DE CASTRO&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  15 March 2021&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Glimpsing the &amp;quot;missing decades&amp;quot; of the flare emission spectrum&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  The Neupert Effect Revisited&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 403&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Jiong QIU&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  8 March 2021&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Two time scales for heating individual flare strands&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  FLUKA as a tool for interpreting flare gamma-rays&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 402&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Alec MACKINNON&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  1 March 2021&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  The nuclear physics of solar flares captured in a detailed model&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  A Collective Study of 11 NuSTAR Microflares&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 401&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Jessie DUNCAN and&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = Lindsay GLESENER&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  22 February 2021&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Swarms of NuSTAR micro flares&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  A Solar FRB&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 400&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Dale GARY and&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = Hugh HUDSON&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  15 February 2021&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  A new frontier in the solar time domain&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Richard Schwartz&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 399&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Brian DENNIS and&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = Hugh HUDSON&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  25 January 2021&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Remembering a friend and colleague&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Observing Solar Flare X-ray Polarization with Prospective CubeSat Missions&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 398&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Natasha JEFFREY &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  4 January 2021&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  The polarization of the solar X-ray spectrum generally remains to be observed&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Solar effects in the local interstellar medium&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 397&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Don GURNETT and&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = Hugh HUDSON&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  14 December 2020&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Relativistic particle events observed _in situ_ in the interstellar medium&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Investigation of Small-Scale Energy Releases in Hard X-rays with ​FOXSI&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 396&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Subramania ATHIRAY and&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = Juliana VIEVERING&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  7 December 2020&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Hard X-rays and high temperatures from the feeblest microflares&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  What drives impulsive coronal heating?&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 395&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Pradeep CHITTA&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = et al.&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  30 November 2020&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Impulsive footpoint emissions suggest magnetic reconnection in the chromosphere&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Probing the solar coronal heating function with slow magnetoacoustic waves&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 394&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Dmitrii KOLOTKOV&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = et al.&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  16 November 2020&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Coronal heating models meet damped slow magnetoacoustic waves&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Self-Consistent Flare Model&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 393&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Wenzhi RUAN&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = and Rony KEPPENS&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  2 November 2020&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Energy transport by fast particles made self-consistent with MHD flare modeling&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Hot Flare Onsets&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 392&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Hugh HUDSON&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = et al.&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  26 October 2020&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  The initial soft X-ray temperatures of solar flares tend to be in the 10-15 MK range&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Electric Current Neutralization and Eruption&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 391&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Ellis AVALLONE&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = and Xudong SUN&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  19 October 2020&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Coronal currents without neutralizing return currents appear to &lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Prediction of Solar Cycle 25&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 390&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Leif SVALGAARD&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  5 October 2020&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Now we know how big the next solar maximum will be&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Flare/CME Cartoon Archive&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 389&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Hugh HUDSON&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  27 September 2020&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  A new edition of the Flare/CME archive, nearly a half kilotoon now&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Submerged Flare Acoustic Sources&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 388&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Juan Camilo BUITRAGO CASAS&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = and Angel MART&amp;amp;Iacute;NEZ&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  13 September 2020&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Flare acoustic radiation emanates from a source _inside_ the Sun&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Circular Ribbon Flare at Microwaves&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 387&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Jeongwoo LEE&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  31 August 2020&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Breakout reconnection reveals itself via microwave polarization measurements.&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Relation of Non-neutralized electric currents and the activity in active regions&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 386&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = P. VEMAREDDY&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  24 August 2020&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Non-neutralized coronal current systems contribute to CME eruptions&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   White-light emission and photospheric magnetic field changes in flares&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 385&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = J. Sebasti&amp;amp;aacute;n CASTELLANOS DUR&amp;amp;Aacute;N &lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = and Lucia KLEINT&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  17 August 2020&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  There are strong correlations between white-light flare emissions and line-of-sight magnetic field changes&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Sunspot Differential Rotation in an X-class Flare&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 384&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Richard GRIMES,&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = Bal&amp;amp;aacute;zs PINT&amp;amp;Eacute;R and Huw MORGAN&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  10 August 2020&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Observations suggesting how the coronal tail can wag the photospheric dog&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Energy Partitioning in a Nonthermally Dominated Two-loop Solar Flare&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 383&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Galina MOTORINA&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = et al.&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  3 August 2020&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Modeling the propagation of energy via GX Simulator in an early-impulsive flare&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   SOL2013-11-10 Eruptive Circular-ribbon Flare with Extended Remote Brightenings&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 382&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Chang LIU&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = et al.&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  31 July 2020&lt;br /&gt;
|description = A circular-ribbon event can launch an eruption by breaking through its separatrix dome&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Extreme-Ultraviolet Late Phase of Solar Flares&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 381&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Rui LIU&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author =&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date =  22 June 2020&lt;br /&gt;
|description = Both arcade and circular-ribbon flares may sometimes spawn EUV late phase emission&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Energy transport by accelerated particles in the quiet solar atmosphere&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 380&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Lars FROGNER,&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = Boris GUDIKSEN and Helle BAKKE&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 15 June 2020&lt;br /&gt;
|description = A first study of non-thermal particles integrated into an MHD simulation of the solar atmosphere&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Quasi-periodic pulsations as indicators of oscillatory processes in solar flares&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 379&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Elena KUPRIYANOVA&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = et al.&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 11 May 2020&lt;br /&gt;
|description = Many, many QPPs&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Rejuvenating Solar Flare Termination Shocks as Particle Accelerators&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 378&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Bin CHEN&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 4 May 2020&lt;br /&gt;
|description = At  last, clear evidence for a long-predicted phenomenon&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Broad symmetrical Doppler-shifted Fe XXI line profiles&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 377&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Vanessa POLITO&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 20 April 2020&lt;br /&gt;
|description = It is difficult to explain &amp;quot;evaporation&amp;quot; line profiles by superposition of unresolved flows&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Phenomena in the unusually long pre-impulsive phase of SOL2011-06-07&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 376&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Marian KARLICK&amp;amp;Yacute;,&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = Jana KA&amp;amp;Scaron;PAROV&amp;amp;Aacute;, and Robert SYCH&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 13 April 2020&lt;br /&gt;
|description = A massive and slowly-rising filament eruption reveals important new signatures of the physics&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =    Evidence for a Coronal Shock Wave Origin for Relativistic Protons Producing Solar Gamma-Rays and Observed by Neutron Monitors at Earth‎&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 375&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Athanasios KOULOUMVAKOS&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = and Gerry SHARE&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 6 April 2020&lt;br /&gt;
|description = Successful modeling of prolonged solar gamma-ray emissions and terrestrial ground-level cosmic-ray events&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Using overlappogram data to find hot flare plasma&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 374&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Louise HARRA&lt;br /&gt;
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|publish_date = 23 March 2020&lt;br /&gt;
|description = Imaging Fe XXIV at high resolution with the EIS slot data&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   SOL2017-09-04 (M5.5) 2017 as a Source of Relativistic Electrons and Protons&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 373&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Alexei STRUMINSKII&lt;br /&gt;
| (see text)&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 16 March 2020&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Flare-accelerated particles, rather than SEPs, energize sustained gamma-ray emission&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Heating of the solar photosphere during a white-light flare‎&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 372&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Jan JURČÁK&lt;br /&gt;
| (see text)&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 2 March 2020&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  The best-ever spectrum of the flare photosphere&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   A Hot Cusp-Shaped Confined Solar Flare&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 371&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Aaron HERNANDEZ-PEREZ&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 24 February 2020&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  A flare may have a prominent hot cusp with the help of any eruption&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   The Temporal and Spatial Extension of Gamma-ray Emission from the Sun&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 370&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Nat GOPALSWAMY&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 17 February 2020&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Sustained solar &amp;amp;gamma;-rays and solar cosmic rays&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   A PSP Perihelion&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 369&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Jessie DUNCAN&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = and Hugh Hudson&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 20 January 2020&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  The Parker Solar Probe enters its fourth perihelion already. Now&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Remembering John Brown&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 368&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Alec MacKINNON&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 13 January 2020&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  John passed away unexpectedly on 16 November 2019&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   A Global Survey of EUV Coronal Power Spectra&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 367&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Karl Battams&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 30 December 2019&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Time-series parameter maps of imaged power spectra from an AIA pipeline&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Cosmic Rays over the Rainbow Bridge &lt;br /&gt;
|number = 366&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Hugh Hudson&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = Alec MacKinnon&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 16 December 2019&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Cosmic rays approach the Sun&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Spectropolarimetric Insight into Plasma-Sheet Dynamics of a Solar Flare&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 365&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Ryan French&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 9 December 2019&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  CoMP polarization patterns in SOL2017-09-10 are amazing&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Lorentz Force Evolution Reveals the Energy Build-up Processes during Recurrent Eruptive Solar Flares‎&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 364&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Ranadeep Sarkar,&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = Nandita Srivastava and Astrid Veronig&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 18 November  2019&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  The net Lorentz force clearly exhibits a build-up and release pattern&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Flare waiting times depend on their magnitudes&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 363&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Hugh Hudson&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 11 November  2019&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Surprising new evidence for the flare build-up and release process&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Can magnetic reconnection cause solar rainstorms?‎&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 362&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Petra Kohutova &lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 4 November  2019&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Impulsive coronal heating resulting from reconnection can trigger coronal rain&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Non-radial jets on the edges of active regions&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 361&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Peter Wyper &lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 14 October 2019&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  The very common jet structures we see can naturally combine twist and breakout&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Searching SOLfully within the Nuggets&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 360&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Hugh Hudson &lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 7 October 2019&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  The IAU target identifier works well for finding items about a particular event&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Submillimeter Radiation as the Thermal Component of the Neupert Effect&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 359&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Guillermo Gim&amp;amp;eacute;nez de Castro &lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 31 September 2019&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Flare radiation at the highest frequencies can be bremsstrahlung&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  The &amp;quot;Last Best&amp;quot; Flares&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 358&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Hugh Hudson,&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = Ed Cliver, and Brian Dennis&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 24 September 2019&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Major flares tend to happen at the very ends of sunspot cycles&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Dynamic Processes of the Moreton Wave on 2014 March 29‎&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 357&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Denis Cabezas &lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = and the FMT team&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 16 September 2019&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  A beautiful Moreton wave excited by the best-observed flare ever&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  EVE-RHESSI DEM Models and the Low-energy Cutoff for Nonthermal Electrons&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 356&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Jim McTiernan&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 9 September 2019&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Characterizing flare temperature distributions helps to define the non-thermal energy release&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Stealth Coronal Mass Ejections from Active Regions&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 355&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Jennifer O&#039;Kane&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 26 August 2019&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Perhaps just feeble versions of the same magnetic disease...&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Do Kepler Superflare Stars Really Include Slowly Rotating Sun-like Stars?‎&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 354&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Yuta NOTSU&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 15 July 2019&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Kepler superflares hint at solar superflares&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Localized Microwave and EUV Bright Structures in an Eruptive Prominence&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 353&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Jing HUANG&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 22 June 2019&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Detailed correlations between EUV and microwaves in prominence fine structures &lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Broken-up hard X-ray spectra found for a loop-top source during a solar limb flare&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 352&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Hao NING,&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = Yao CHEN and Jeongwoo LEE&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 16 June 2019&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  SOL2017-09-10 coronal hard X-ray sources&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   The Cosmic-Ray Shadow and Coronal Magnetism&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 351&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Frederik Tenholt&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 27 May 2019&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  The coronal magnetic field measured in Antarctica&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Kristian Birkeland&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 350&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Hugh HUDSON&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = and  Lyndsay FLETCHER&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 6 May 2019&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Space weather a century ago: Kristian Birkeland&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Warm UV loops heated by small-scale cancellation events&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 349&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Seray ŞAHIN&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = and  Vasyl YURCHYSHYN&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 22 April 2019&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Precisely locating the footpoints of warm coronal loops helps identify their source(s) of excitation&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Multiple Regions of Shock-accelerated Particles during a Solar Coronal Mass Ejection&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 348&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Diana MOROSAN&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author =  &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 1 April 2019&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  LOFAR identifies herringbone sources within the flank of the SOL2017-09-10 shock - no joke&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Persistent Quasi-Periodic Pulsations Detected During the Large X8.2 Solar Flare&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 347&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Laura HAYES&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author =  and Peter GALLAGHER&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 25 March 2019&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  The most beautiful flare has the most beautiful pulsations&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Is the coronal magnetic field braiding?&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 346&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Markus ASCHWANDEN&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author =  &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 11 March 2019&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  This iconic cartoon does not relate well to the observations&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  An energetic pre-flare: electron distributions in magnetic reconnection outflows&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 345&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Marina BATTAGLIA,&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author =  Eduard KONTAR and Galina MOTORINA&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 18 February 2019&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Assessing energy partition in a pre-impulsive flare development&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Linear Polarization in H-alpha Flares&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 344&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Tomoko KAWATE&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author =  and Yoichiro HANAOKA&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 4 February 2019&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  H-alpha polarization is rarely observable but, in once case, very suggestive&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Short-Period Waves&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 343&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Sijie YU&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author =  and Bin CHEN&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 21 January 2019&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  New decimetric imaging spectroscopy suggests Alfv&amp;amp;eacute;nic energy transport in flares&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  The Interesting RHESSI/SAS Archive&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 342&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Hugh HUDSON&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author =  and Martin FIVIAN&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 8 January 2019&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  The full mission database shows RHESSI to have been very stable geometrically&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Homologous White Light Solar Flares‎&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 341&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Paolo ROMANO&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author =  and Abouazza ELMHAMDI&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 31 December 2018&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Homologous white-light flares, in rapid succession, and coronal null points&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  The flight of FOXSI-3&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 340&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Lindsay GLESENER&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author =  and Noriyuki NARUKAGE&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 10 December 2018&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Single-photon counting and direct focusing across hard and soft energies&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Stellar Flares and Starspots&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 339&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Lauren DOYLE&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author =  &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 3 December 2018&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Stellar flares don&#039;t spatially match their starspots&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Neutron Production in Solar Flares&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 338&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Ron MURPHY&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author =  and Gerry SHARE&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 26 November 2018&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Neutron astronomy helps us understand solar flares&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Cycle 25 Strikes Again&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 337&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Kamil BICZ&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author =  &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 20 November 2018&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  A second, larger Cycle 25 sunspot&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Remembering Marcos Machado via his research&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 336&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Hugh HUDSON&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author =  &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 13 November 2018&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Recalling a friend and colleague, and admiring his final paper&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  CORONAS/SPIRIT Mg XII and Nanoflares‎&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 335&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Anton REVA&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author =  &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 22 October 2018&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Monochromatic Mg XII spectroheliography sets severe limits on nanoflare heating models&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  White-light Emission and Non-thermal Electrons‎&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 334&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Kyoung-Sun LEE&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author =  &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 8 October 2018&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  An intimate relationship between accelerated electrons and visible flare continuum&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Coronal Hard X-ray Sources Revisited&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 333&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Brian DENNIS&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author =  &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 24 September 2018&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Reporting some over-interpretation of the evidence for &amp;quot;coronal thick targets&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Photospheric response to a flare&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 332&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Mike WHEATLAND&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author =  &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 17 September 2018&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Sudden changes in the magnetic field in the low atmosphere associated with particle acceleration&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   New Views of Global Solar Magnetic Field Evolution Over Four Solar Cycles&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 331&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = David WEBB&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author =  &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 27 August 2018&lt;br /&gt;
|description = A digital archive of Pat McIntosh&#039;s 44 years of solar synoptic observations  &lt;br /&gt;
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|title =   Understanding the co-spatial return current in solar flares&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 330&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Meriem ALAOUI&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author =  and Gordon HOLMAN&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 6 August 2018&lt;br /&gt;
|description = Completing the circuit in a thick-target model  &lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  3D Magnetic Reconnection at a Coronal Null Point&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 329&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Shane MALONEY,&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = Aidan O&#039;Flannagain and Peter Gallagher&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 30 July 2018&lt;br /&gt;
|description = Large-scale reconnection involved in Type I radio noise storm  &lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  The true dawn of multimessenger astronomy&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 328&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Hugh Hudson&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = &lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 23 July 2018&lt;br /&gt;
|description = Ever since the Carrington flare &lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Microwave Imaging Spectroscopy of Flares is Here‎&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 327&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Dale E. Gary,&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = EOVSA and RHESSI Teams&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 16 July 2018&lt;br /&gt;
|description = Microwave imaging spectroscopy takes a giant leap forward with SOL2017-09-10 &lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Coronal nanoflares powered by footpoint reconnection&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 326&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Pradeep Chitta,&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = Hardi Peter, and Sami Solanki&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 9 July 2018&lt;br /&gt;
|description = Coronal nanoflares in active region cores can be powered by the magnetic reconnection in the lower solar atmosphere &lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  A remarkable, but confused, coronal hard X-ray source&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 325&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Alexandra Lysenko,&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = Larisa Kashapova and Hugh Hudson&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 25 June 2018&lt;br /&gt;
|description = A remarkable flare in 1999 adds to our short list of extended coronal hard X-ray/microwave sources &lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Understanding HMI pseudocontinuum in white-light flares‎&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 324&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Michal &amp;amp;Scaron;vanda&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = et al.&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 28 May 2018&lt;br /&gt;
|description = The HMI pseudocontinuum (Ic) is ill-calibrated in regions with strong fields, i.e. for white-light flares &lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  To beam or not to beam - that is (still) the question&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 323&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Paulo Sim&amp;amp;otilde;es&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = and Hugh Hudson&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 14 May 2018&lt;br /&gt;
|description = Descriptions of the lower solar atmosphere of flares &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;ca.&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; Cycle 21 sound surprisingly current &lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Observation of Cosmic Ray Spallation Events from SoHO‎&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 322&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Serge Koutchmy&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = and Ehsan Tavabi&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 7 May 2018&lt;br /&gt;
|description = LASCO&#039;s images capture high-energy nuclear interactions from cosmic-ray hits &lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  A Sunspot from Cycle 25 for sure&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 321&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Tomek Mrozek&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = and Hugh Hudson&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 10 April 2018&lt;br /&gt;
|description = YES! Cycle 25 is here! &lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Blue-wing enhancement of the Mg II h and k lines in a flare&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 320&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Akiko TEI&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author =&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 9 April 2018&lt;br /&gt;
|description = Flare loops involve a cool upflow preceding the hot evaporation flow &lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  NuSTAR detects X-ray flares in the quiet Sun&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 319&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Matej Kuhar&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = and S&amp;amp;auml;m Krucker&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 26 March 2018&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Quiet-Sun flares may not be powerful, but they look a lot like ordinary flares&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Homologous CME/flares from AR 12371&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 318&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Panditi Vemareddy&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = and Pascal Demoul&amp;amp;iacute;n&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 19 March 2018&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  An excellent set of homologous flare/CMEs analyzed and explained&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Non-Maxwellian Diagnostics from SDO/EVE Spectra of an X-class Flare&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 317&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Elena Dzif&amp;amp;#x10d;&amp;amp;aacute;kov&amp;amp;aacute;&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = and Jaroslav Dud&amp;amp;iacute;k&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 16 February 2018&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Ratios of high-excitation ions can readily detect &amp;amp;kappa;-distributions in flare plasmas&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Joint MinXSS and RHESSI Flare X-ray Spectra between 1 and 15 keV&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 316&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Chris Moore, Brian Dennis and the MinXSS Science Team&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 5 February 2018&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  MinXSS adds systematic views of flare soft X-ray spectra to RHESSI imagery&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Parameterized Flare Models with Chromospheric Compressions&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 315&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Adam Kowalski &amp;amp; Joel Allred&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 17 January 2018&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  A new approach to modeling the lower flare atmosphere&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  A Curious Sunspot Group in 2018&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 314&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Hugh Hudson&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 14 January 2018&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  The first new sunspot group of 2018 emerged at the wrong latitude&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Tecumseh&#039;s Eclipse and Astrophysics&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 313&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Hugh Hudson&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 25 December 2017&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  The solar corona was first recognized as such, and named, in an eclipse of 1806&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Hunting for Hidden Tiny Flares&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 312&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Shin-nosuke ISHIKAWA&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 27 November 2017&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  FOXSI-2 says that episodic energy releases are still viable as a part of the coronal heating problem.&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Unusual Type III Burst Dynamics Produced by Diverging Magnetic Fields&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 311&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Patrick McCauley&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 20 November 2017&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  Unusual type III bursts follow coronal separatrix structures.&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Valderrama in the 21st Century&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 310&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Hugh Hudson&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 31 October 2017&lt;br /&gt;
|description =  A newly-described white-light flare from the 19th century!..&lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  Electron Scattering in the Flaring Corona&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 309&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Sophie Musset&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 24 October 2017&lt;br /&gt;
|description = Diffusive transport may contribute to the trapping of electrons in coronal X-ray sources &lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  The Power of Turbulence&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 308&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Nic Bian&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 25 September 2017&lt;br /&gt;
|description = Turbulent energy content may underlie flare energy transfer, magnetic reconnection, and particle acceleration &lt;br /&gt;
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|title =  The Kelvin Force and Loop-Top Concentration&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 307&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = Kiyoto SHIBASAKI&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 18 September 2017&lt;br /&gt;
|description = New physics can explain the perplexing overpressure at the flare looptop regions&lt;br /&gt;
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|title = The Last Best Flare of Cycle 24?&lt;br /&gt;
|number = 306&lt;br /&gt;
|first_author = S&amp;amp;auml;m Krucker&lt;br /&gt;
|second_author = and Hugh Hudson&lt;br /&gt;
|publish_date = 11 September 2017&lt;br /&gt;
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		<title>Spatially resolved plasma composition evolution in a solar flare</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Dbarrous: Created page with &amp;quot;{{Infobox Nugget |name = Nugget |title = Spatially resolved plasma composition evolution in a solar flare: the effect of reconnection outflow |number = 476 |first_author =  Andy S. H. TO &amp;lt;I&amp;gt;et al.&amp;lt;/I&amp;gt; |next_nugget = Return currents |previous_nugget = {{#ask: Category:Nugget RHESSI Nugget Index::475}} }}  == Introduction ==  Solar flares can significantly affect the elemental composition in the corona.  The observed variations of elemental abundances reflect  the...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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== Introduction ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Solar flares can significantly affect the elemental composition in&lt;br /&gt;
the corona. &lt;br /&gt;
The observed variations of elemental abundances reflect &lt;br /&gt;
the First Ionization Potential (FIP) effect, where easily&lt;br /&gt;
ionized elements (low FIP, &amp;amp;lt; 10 eV) such as Ca and Fe show abundances&lt;br /&gt;
that are relative to high-FIP elements (&amp;amp;ge; 10 eV) like Ar and S. &lt;br /&gt;
The ratio between coronal and photospheric abundances of these elements,&lt;br /&gt;
known as the &amp;quot;FIP bias,&amp;quot; helps us understand the physical processes&lt;br /&gt;
occurring during flares. &lt;br /&gt;
Previous studies using Sun-as-a-star&lt;br /&gt;
measurements often show photospheric abundances during flares,&lt;br /&gt;
suggesting that chromospheric ablation pulls up low and high-FIP&lt;br /&gt;
element indiscriminantly.&lt;br /&gt;
The spatial variation of composition within flare structures &lt;br /&gt;
has thus remained poorly understood (e.g., Ref. [1]).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Observations ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We have analyzed the famous flare SOL2017-09-10 (X11.9) &lt;br /&gt;
using the Hinode/EIS instrument, which provided 12 spectroscopic&lt;br /&gt;
observations spanning 3.5 hours (Ref. [2]). &lt;br /&gt;
Using both Ca XIV/Ar XIV and Fe XVI/S XIII composition diagnostics, &lt;br /&gt;
we found consistently that: &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*  The flare loop tops maintained high FIP bias values (&amp;amp;gt; 2-6) throughout the observation period for both Ca/Ar and Fe/S; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*  FIP bias gradually decreased from loop tops toward footpoints, reaching photospheric values (FIP bias ~ 1); &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*  The temporal evolution showed higher FIP bias during the peak phase, gradually decreasing in later stages.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File: 476f1.png|thumb|center|600px|Figure 1:&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Flare images and time sequences for SOL2017-09-10. &lt;br /&gt;
Upper panel, abundance-ratio maps (left) and EUV intensities (right)&lt;br /&gt;
in each image pair.&lt;br /&gt;
See Ref. [2] for fuller details.&lt;br /&gt;
Middle, [https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/goes-x-ray-flux GOES] &lt;br /&gt;
soft X-ray time seriess; lower,&lt;br /&gt;
[https://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/rhessi3/ RHESSI] hard X-rays.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
These maps show FIP enhancements at the loop tops, closely matching&lt;br /&gt;
the images themselves; the footpoints of these loops instead &lt;br /&gt;
have normal photospheric abundances.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Discussion and Conclusions ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
to explain this striking discovery, we propose a scenario similar to that &lt;br /&gt;
for the loop plasma itself.&lt;br /&gt;
The persistent high FIP bias at loop tops results from plasma downflow from the&lt;br /&gt;
plasma sheet, where pre-existing coronal loops with high FIP bias&lt;br /&gt;
undergo reconnection; see Ref. [1] for a description of&lt;br /&gt;
composition in this current sheet.&lt;br /&gt;
This highly fractionated plasma (FIP bias &amp;amp;gt; 2) becomes&lt;br /&gt;
confined at loop tops, while chromospheric evaporation fills the&lt;br /&gt;
lower parts of loops with unfractionated plasma (FIP bias = 1).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File: 476f2.png|thumb|center|600px|Figure 2:&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Illustration of how plasma downflow following magnetic reconnection&lt;br /&gt;
can create high-FIP looptops, with lower FIP at the footpoints &lt;br /&gt;
resulting from evaporation.&lt;br /&gt;
Note that in Sun-as-a-star measurements, the looptop&lt;br /&gt;
high FIP bias is likely diluted due to the bright low FIP bias loop&lt;br /&gt;
footpoints, which dominate.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Our observations provide new insights into flare heating mechanisms&lt;br /&gt;
and the formation of bright loop-top &amp;quot;EUV knots&amp;quot; - dense plasma&lt;br /&gt;
concentrations commonly observed at flare loop tops. While the&lt;br /&gt;
standard flare model suggests heating through chromospheric&lt;br /&gt;
evaporation, our composition measurements reveal that flare heating&lt;br /&gt;
is more complex, involving both directly heated coronal plasma and&lt;br /&gt;
evaporated chromospheric material.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The high FIP bias we observe at loop tops contradicts models where&lt;br /&gt;
EUV knots form solely through colliding evaporation flows, as such&lt;br /&gt;
flows would carry photospheric composition plasma. Instead, our&lt;br /&gt;
results support scenarios where reconnection outflows contribute&lt;br /&gt;
to the formation of these bright loop-top features.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
This scenario helps explain several key observational features:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* The spatial gradient in composition along flare loops - from&lt;br /&gt;
highly fractionated plasma at loop tops to photospheric values at&lt;br /&gt;
footpoints&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* The remarkable persistence of high FIP bias at loop tops over 3.5&lt;br /&gt;
hours - maintained by continuous downflows from the current sheet&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Why Sun-as-a-star measurements typically show photospheric&lt;br /&gt;
abundances - the localized high FIP bias at loop tops is diluted&lt;br /&gt;
by bright footpoint emission in spatially-averaged observations&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* The formation mechanism of bright loop-top &amp;quot;EUV knots&amp;quot; - these&lt;br /&gt;
features arise from confined, highly&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Our findings demonstrate that flare plasma heating is more complex&lt;br /&gt;
than previously thought, involving both directly heated coronal&lt;br /&gt;
plasma and evaporated chromospheric material. This dual heating&lt;br /&gt;
mechanism provides new insights into how energy is transported and&lt;br /&gt;
dissipated during these powerful solar events, and highlights the&lt;br /&gt;
importance of spatially-resolved observations in understanding flare&lt;br /&gt;
processes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
For more details, see Ref. [2].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Acknowledegement ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
This Nugget and Ref. [2] are the work of the author and colleagues&lt;br /&gt;
David H. Brooks, Shinsuke Imada, Ryan J. French, Lidia van Driel-&lt;br /&gt;
Gesztelyi, Deborah Baker, David M. Long, William Ashfield IV, and&lt;br /&gt;
Laura A. Hayes&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[1] [https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018ApJ...853..178D/abstract &amp;quot;Photospheric and Coronal Abundances in an X8.3 Class Limb Flare&amp;quot;]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[2] [https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024A%26A...691A..95T/abstract &amp;quot;Spatially resolved plasma composition evolution in a solar flare - The effect of reconnection outflow&amp;quot;]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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