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== Introduction ==
== Introduction ==


Since RHESSI was launched in February 2002, it has observed thousands of solar flares (more than 46,000 in the latest reprocessing of the RHESSI flare list). It was noticed in 2002 that RHESSI was observing solar emission even  when there are no flares present (Ref. 1). The temperature required for this high energy emission is greater than 5 MK, a temperature range that is not often considered for solar active regions, mostly because the instruments used for T measurement of active regions, such as Yohkoh SXT, SOHO EIT or CDS, or didn't have much response to high T.
Since RHESSI was launched in February 2002, it has observed thousands of solar flares (more than 46,000 in the latest reprocessing of the RHESSI flare list). It was noticed in 2002 that RHESSI was observing solar emission even  when there are no flares present (Ref. 1). The temperature required for this high energy emission is greater than 5 MK, a temperature range that is not often considered for solar active regions, mostly because the instruments used for T measurement of active regions, such as Yohkoh SXT, SOHO EIT or CDS, or didn't have much response to high T. Here we have measured the T for approximately 7000 time intervals from Feb 2002 through August 2006.
 
== Background Subtraction ==
 
[[Image:97_jmm_Spd2006_fig1.png]]

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Nugget
Number: 97
1st Author: Jim McTiernan
2nd Author:
Published: 16 March 2009
Next Nugget: TBD
Previous Nugget: The Jakimiec Track



Introduction

Since RHESSI was launched in February 2002, it has observed thousands of solar flares (more than 46,000 in the latest reprocessing of the RHESSI flare list). It was noticed in 2002 that RHESSI was observing solar emission even when there are no flares present (Ref. 1). The temperature required for this high energy emission is greater than 5 MK, a temperature range that is not often considered for solar active regions, mostly because the instruments used for T measurement of active regions, such as Yohkoh SXT, SOHO EIT or CDS, or didn't have much response to high T. Here we have measured the T for approximately 7000 time intervals from Feb 2002 through August 2006.

Background Subtraction

97 jmm Spd2006 fig1.png