RHESSI Science Nuggets
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The Good Guys and the Rascals
2008-10-13 • submitted by B. Dabrowski and A. Benz
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Solar decimetric radio bursts - but only the good guys - correlate well with RHESSI hard X-rays.
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RHESSI optical images
2008-09-29 • submitted by H. Jabran Zahid and Hugh Hudson
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RHESSI makes optical images as well as X-ray and gamma-ray ones. This Nugget explains how.
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Flare Plasma Abundances - New X-ray Observations
2008-09-15 • submitted by Brian Dennis and Richard Starr
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MESSENGER is now exploring Mercury. It is also helping RHESSI to understand the solar X-ray spectrum and measure elemental abundances in flares.
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Hard X-rays from a jet?
2008-08-27 • submitted by Hazel Miller Bain and Lyndsay Fletcher
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Observations during the rise phase of a M5.4 flare suggests that hard x-rays may be associated with a jet observed by TRACE.
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Are stellar flares like solar flares?
2008-08-11 • submitted by Hugh Hudson and Beate Stelzer
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In this nugget, we explore an extrasolar flare (aka stellar flare). These stellar and solar flares are similar but it is often in subtle differences that we may learn the most.
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