New Insights from Imaging Spectroscopy of Solar Radio Emission

DE Gary - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Newly available high-resolution imaging of solar radio emission at many closely spaced
frequencies and times provides new physical insight into the processes, structure, and …

Carrington events

HS Hudson - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The Carrington event in 1859, a solar flare with an associated geomagnetic storm, has
served as a prototype of possible superflare occurrence on the Sun. Recent geophysical …

Solar flare accelerates nearly all electrons in a large coronal volume

GD Fleishman, GM Nita, B Chen, S Yu, DE Gary - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Solar flares, driven by prompt release of free magnetic energy in the solar corona,, are
known to accelerate a substantial portion (ten per cent or more), of available electrons to …

Electron acceleration during macroscale magnetic reconnection

H Arnold, JF Drake, M Swisdak, F Guo, JT Dahlin… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
The first self-consistent simulations of electron acceleration during magnetic reconnection in
a macroscale system are presented. Consistent with solar flare observations, the spectra of …

Measurement of magnetic field and relativistic electrons along a solar flare current sheet

B Chen, C Shen, DE Gary, KK Reeves… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
In the standard model of solar flares, a large-scale reconnection current sheet is postulated
to be the central engine for powering the flare energy release,–and accelerating particles …

Decay of the coronal magnetic field can release sufficient energy to power a solar flare

GD Fleishman, DE Gary, B Chen, N Kuroda, S Yu… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Solar flares are powered by a rapid release of energy in the solar corona, thought to be
produced by the decay of the coronal magnetic field strength. Direct quantitative …

The origin of underdense plasma downflows associated with magnetic reconnection in solar flares

C Shen, B Chen, KK Reeves, S Yu, V Polito, X Xie - Nature Astronomy, 2022 - nature.com
Magnetic reconnection is a universal process that powers explosive energy-release events
such as solar flares, geomagnetic substorms and some astrophysical jets. A characteristic …

Microwave and hard X-ray observations of the 2017 September 10 solar limb flare

DE Gary, B Chen, BR Dennis… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the first science results from the newly completed Expanded Owens Valley Solar
Array (EOVSA), which obtained excellent microwave (MW) imaging spectroscopy …

Probing the physics of the solar atmosphere with the multi-slit solar explorer (MUSE). II. flares and eruptions

MCM Cheung, J Martínez-Sykora, P Testa… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Current state-of-the-art spectrographs cannot resolve the fundamental spatial
(subarcseconds) and temporal (less than a few tens of seconds) scales of the coronal …

Magnetic reconnection during the post-impulsive phase of a long-duration solar flare: bidirectional outflows as a cause of microwave and X-ray bursts

S Yu, B Chen, KK Reeves, DE Gary… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetic reconnection plays a crucial role in powering solar flares, production of energetic
particles, and plasma heating. However, where the magnetic reconnections occur, how and …