RHESSI Science Nuggets
science notes from RHESSI

Elementary Flares
2005-08-04 • submitted by Arnold Benz
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As experienced prospectors know, nuggets are often found in close proximity to one another. Thus, in the same flare containing the nugget presented by Paolo Grigis, we found another nugget.
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Bastille day encore 2005
2005-07-18 • submitted by Säm Krucker and Hugh Hudson
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As is (strangely) usual, Bastille day 2005 produced yet another large (X-class) solar flare. The Sun seems willing to disregard the solar cycle in order to celebrate the French revolution.
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Footpoint motions and what we can learn from them
2005-07-11 • submitted by Paolo Grigis
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Flare hard X-rays can show us both where magnetic energy is stored, and also where it is released. The RHESSI observations therefore give us some leverage on acceptable theories.
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RHESSI observes a magnetar
2005-07-05 • submitted by Hugh Hudson and Kevin Hurley
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By an extraordinary coincidence, the most powerful gamma-ray burst ever observed occurred quite close to the solar direction. Accordingly RHESSI got unique observations of a relativistic blackbody.
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RHESSI and Type III Radio Bursts
2005-04-09 • submitted by Steven Christe
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Do the solar energetic particles that we see in space near the Earth make X-rays on the way out? This nugget uses the RHESSI spectrogram tool, plus hard X-ray imaging, to study this problem.
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