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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.  If you are looking for older Nuggets than please visit the [http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/nuggets/ <b>original series</b> of  RHESSI Science Nuggets] and use the search facilities there; for this new series of Nuggets in the Wiki format, use your browser's search facility for title words or authors.
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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]].  If you are looking for older Nuggets than please visit the [http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/nuggets/ <b>original series</b> of  RHESSI Science Nuggets] and use the search facilities there; for this new series of Nuggets in the Wiki format, use your browser's search facility for title words or authors.
We welcome volunteer authors - please see our page of [http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/Help:For_Authors help for authors].
We welcome volunteer authors - please see our page of [http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/Help:For_Authors help for authors].

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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 alphabetical list of wiki Nuggets is also available as well as yearly lists. If you are looking for older Nuggets than please visit the original series of RHESSI Science Nuggets and use the search facilities there; for this new series of Nuggets in the Wiki format, use your browser's search facility for title words or authors. We welcome volunteer authors - please see our page of help for authors.

312 Hunting for Hidden Tiny Flares
27 November 2017 by Shin-nosuke ISHIKAWA
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FOXSI-2 says that episodic energy releases are still viable as a part of the coronal heating problem.. Click the title to read more.
311 Unusual Type III Burst Dynamics Produced by Diverging Magnetic Fields
20 November 2017 by Patrick McCauley
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Unusual type III bursts follow coronal separatrix structures.. Click the title to read more.
310 Valderrama in the 21st Century
31 October 2017 by Hugh Hudson
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A newly-described white-light flare from the 19th century!... Click the title to read more.
309 Electron Scattering in the Flaring Corona
24 October 2017 by Sophie Musset
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Diffusive transport may contribute to the trapping of electrons in coronal X-ray sources. Click the title to read more.
308 The Power of Turbulence
25 September 2017 by Nic Bian
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Turbulent energy content may underlie flare energy transfer, magnetic reconnection, and particle acceleration. Click the title to read more.
307 The Kelvin Force and Loop-Top Concentration
18 September 2017 by Kiyoto SHIBASAKI
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New physics can explain the perplexing overpressure at the flare looptop regions. Click the title to read more.
306 The Last Best Flare of Cycle 24?
11 September 2017 by Säm Krucker and Hugh Hudson
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Right on schedule, Cycle 24 has produced a great flare (with a GLE). Click the title to read more.
305 Electric Current Neutralization and Solar Eruption in Active Regions
28 August 2017 by Yang LIU
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Active current systems in the solar corona don't have return currents. Click the title to read more.
304 RHESSI and the Megamovie
31 July 2017 by Hugh Hudson, Laura Peticolas, and Juan Carlos Martínez Oliveros
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A wholly new way to view a solar eclipse, and to do solar astrometry. Click the title to read more.
303 Bastille Day 2017
24 July 2017 by Hugh Hudson and Säm Krucker
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Interesting flares really do happen on Bastille Day.... Click the title to read more.
302 The Solar X-ray Limb III
12 June 2017 by Marina Battaglia and Gordon Hurford
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RHESSI succeeds with a wholly new way to measure the solar diameter. Click the title to read more.
301 Double Coronal X-ray and Microwave Sources Associated With A Magnetic Breakout Solar Eruption
29 May 2017 by Yao CHEN
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A different explanation of the double coronal hard X-ray sources. Click the title to read more.
300 A Lasso Model for Solar Gamma-ray Events
15 May 2017 by Hugh Hudson
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A toy model hoping to explain the SEP/LAT relationship. Click the title to read more.
299 High Resolution Temporal and Spatial Structure of a White Light Flare
30 April 2017 by Vasyl Yurchyshyn
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The biggest solar telescope finds still smaller scales for white-light flaring - and more. Click the title to read more.
298 Multi-Instrument Solar Flare Observations II: A SC24 retrospective
10 April 2017 by Ryan Milligan and Jack Ireland
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Retrospective searches for other useful observations of your favorite flare - how the widget did in Cycle 24. Click the title to read more.
297 Multi-Instrument Solar Flare Observations I: Solar Flare Finder
3 April 2017 by Ryan Milligan and Kim Tolbert
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Retrospective searches for other useful observations of your favorite flare. Click the title to read more.
296 Suppression of Hydrogen Emission in an X-class White-light Solar Flare
20 March 2017 by Ondřej Procházka and Ryan Milligan
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The absence of hydrogen emission lines in a white-light flare suggests an origin in the deep solar atmosphere.. Click the title to read more.
295 Radio Emissions from Double RHESSI TGFs
13 March 2017 by Andrey Mezentsev and Thomas Gjesteland
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Lightning helps with microsecond timing calibrations, and is really interesting as a phenomenon of high-energy astrophysics.. Click the title to read more.
294 Edward Chupp
6 March 2017 by RHESSI
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. Click the title to read more.
293 Pierre Kaufmann
19 February 2017 by RHESSI
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. Click the title to read more.
292 RHESSI's 15th Anniversary
13 February 2017 by Brian Dennis, Säm Krucker and Albert Shih
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RHESSI celebrates 15 years in orbit. Click the title to read more.
291 Hard X-ray Emission from Partially Occulted Solar Flares
30 January 2017 by Frederic Effenberger and Fatima Rubio da Costa
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Systematic use of occultation lets us observe the corona in hard X-rays. Click the title to read more.
290 GOES Hard X-rays?
16 January 2017 by Hugh Hudson, Janet Machol, and Rodney Viereck
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Solar minimum conditions reveal interesting properties of the GOES X-ray observations. Click the title to read more.
289 Syrovatskii's "constant density" approximation
30 December 2016 by Hugh Hudson and Paulo Simões
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Remembering S.I. Syrovatskii; the relevance of the Shmeleva-Syrovatskii “constant density” approximation has been verified by modern high-resolution observations. Click the title to read more.
288 Statistical Link Between Electrons Emitting X-rays and Type III Radio Bursts
19 December 2016 by Hamish Reid and Nicole Vilmer
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Correlations across the radio and X-ray spectra imply related populations of source electrons. Click the title to read more.
287 KW-Sun: The Konus/WIND Hard X-ray Solar Flare Database
20 November 2016 by Alexandra Lysenko and the Konus/WIND Team
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A Hale Cycle's worth of hard X-ray and soft gamma-ray flare observations. Click the title to read more.
286 Microwave Emission from Twisted Magnetic Fields
13 November 2016 by Mykola Gordovskyy and Philippa Browning
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The inherent magnetic twist of a flaring loop can be inferred from microwave polarization signatures.. Click the title to read more.
285 Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Flare Hard X-ray Pulsations
31 October 2016 by Ivan Zimovets, Sergey Kuznetsov, Alexander Morgachev, and Alexei Struminsky
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In pulsating flare energy release, the hard X-ray source peaks have different locations.. Click the title to read more.
284 Flare-induced Impulsive Sunspot Rotation caught in High Resolution‎
24 October 2016 by Chang Liu and Haimin Wang
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The tail wags the dog - short time scales for coronal stresses on sunspot structure. Click the title to read more.
283 Hard X-ray Polarimetry from Tian Gong 2‎
20 October 2016 by Wojtek Hajdas
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A novel hard X-ray polarimeter achieves solar "first light". Click the title to read more.
282 A flare in the deep solar atmosphere
26 September 2016 by Richard Schwartz and Hugh Hudson
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RHESSI recently spotted a very fast, very compact, and hot flare event in the deep atmosphere. Click the title to read more.
281 To be or not to be - the role of projection effects in EUV imaging
16 August 2016 by Karin Dissauer and Manuela Temmer
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Perspective matters - application of STEREO views to coronal dimming. Click the title to read more.
280 Solar flare neutrons observed on the ground and in space
12 August 2016 by Alexander MacKinnon
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There has been dramatic progress in studying the Sun via its emission of energetic neutrons. Click the title to read more.
279 Unexpected intensity distributions of solar electrons in the heliosphere
13 July 2016 by Andreas Klassen and the SEPT/STEREO team
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Solar energetic electrons may have complicated and informative distributions in the interplanetary medium. Click the title to read more.
278 Initiation of a type II radio burst without a CME
4 July 2016 by Pankaj Kumar, Davina Innes, and Kyung-Suk Cho
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A global coronal shock wave without a CME driver. Click the title to read more.
277 Spotlessness returns
27 June 2016 by Hugh Hudson
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The Sun had no spots for extended periods in June, 2016. Click the title to read more.
276 RHESSI has resumed operations
20 June 2016 by Albert Shih, Brian Dennis and Säm Krucker
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A successful anneal and RHESSI continues to provide data. Click the title to read more.
275 Non-thermal recombination in solar flares and microflares
6 June 2016 by Jeffrey Reep and John Brown
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A heretofore unrecognized emission mechanism for solar hard X-rays. Click the title to read more.
274 Data-driven radiative hydrodynamic modeling of SOL2014-03-29
10 May 2016 by Fatima Rubio da Costa
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Intense pulses of energy modeled with RADYN. Click the title to read more.
273 Electron acceleration and hard X-ray emission from SOL2013-11-09
5 May 2016 by Yuri Tsap and Galina Motorina
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Testing the thick-target model in an interesting flare. Click the title to read more.
272 Extreme events, stellar evolution, and magnetic reconnection
30 April 2016 by Hugh Hudson
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Stellar activity measured by flare rates over the eons. Click the title to read more.
271 Radio polarization signatures in twisted flare loops
25 April 2016 by Ivan Sharykin and Alexei Kuznetsov
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Flux-rope geometry via radio polarization signs. Click the title to read more.
270 An Unreported White-light Prominence
28 March 2016 by Matt Penn and Hugh Hudson
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Massive flare ejecta observed visually. Click the title to read more.
269 RHESSI's 5th Anneal
23 February 2016 by Albert Shih and Brian Dennis
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RHESSI has begun annealing its detectors, interrupting the flow of data for several weeks. Click the title to read more.
268 A new development in the Frost-Dennis paradigm
22 February 2016 by Hugh Hudson, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, and Larisa Kashapova
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The Fermi/LAT long-duration events look like SOL1969-03-30. Click the title to read more.
267 When the Earth’s atmosphere becomes dynamic…
13 February 2016 by Manuela Temmer, Sandro Krauss and Astrid Veronig
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The Earth's ionosphere reacts strongly to the occurrence of flares and CMEs. Click the title to read more.
266 Hard X-ray Directivity Measurements with STIX and MiSolFA‎
7 December 2015 by Diego Casadei and Hugh Hudson
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Precise stereoscopic observations of hard X-rays can reveal electron beams. Click the title to read more.
265 On the Correlation of HXR and WL Emission in Solar Flares‎
19 November 2015 by Matej Kuhar
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New data sharpen the correlations between hard X-rays and white light, but interesting questions remain open. Click the title to read more.
264 How to better determine the power in non-thermal electrons from observed X-ray spectra
9 November 2015 by Eduard Kontar, Gordon Emslie, Natasha Jeffrey, and Nic Bian
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Incorporation of energy diffusion for electron transport helps with flare energetics. Click the title to read more.
263 Soft and Hard X-rays, Flares, and the Corona
20 October 2015 by Hugh Hudson
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Behavior of the X-ray Sun at low activity levels. Click the title to read more.
262 Fine Structure in Flare Soft X-ray Light Curves
21 September 2015 by Brian Dennis and Kim Tolbert
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A tool that we've had since 1976 now gives us surprisingly precise new information. Click the title to read more.
261 Photospheric Electric Fields and Energy Fluxes in the Eruptive Active Region NOAA 11158
14 September 2015 by Maria Kazachenko
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Flares need magnetic energy. We can now measure its arrival as Poynting flux across the solar photosphere.. Click the title to read more.
260 RHESSI and General Relativity
7 September 2015 by Bill Thompson and Hugh Hudson
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General-relativistic corrections to RHESSI source positions. Click the title to read more.
259 Return-current Model Spectra and Enhanced Plasma Resistivity
31 August 2015 by Meriem Alaoui and Gordon Holman
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A basic return-current model matches RHESSI hard X-ray spectra and implies a need for anomalous resistivity. Click the title to read more.
258 High Energies in the Inner Heliosphere
24 August 2015 by Hugh Hudson
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Cosmic rays measure the coronal magnetic field at the PFSS source surface itself. Click the title to read more.
257 A Two-ribbon White-light Flare Associated with a Failed Solar Eruption
13 July 2015 by Xin CHENG
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The ONSET facility in Yunnan observes an interesting flare event. Click the title to read more.
256 The Fastest Flare
29 June 2015 by Hugh Hudson and Paulo Simões
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A GOES soft X-ray burst lasting less than one minute - with hard X-rays and white-light continuum. Click the title to read more.
255 High-energy Electrons and Electric Currents during a Flare
22 June 2015 by Sophie Musset, Nicole Vilmer and Véronique Bommier
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Photospheric vertical currents linked to sites of electron acceleration in the corona. Click the title to read more.
254 High Dispersion Spectroscopy of solar-type superflare stars
8 June 2015 by Yuta Notsu
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Researching the properties of Kepler's solar-type superflare stars. Click the title to read more.
253 "Superflares" on solar-type stars observed with Kepler
1 June 2015 by Hiroyuki Maehara
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Flare energies 10-1000 times those of the most powerful solar flares. Click the title to read more.
252 EOVSA Coverage of a Recent Gamma-Ray Flare
11 May 2015 by Dale Gary and Gregory Fleishman
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A recent gamma-ray flare observed with Owens Valley microwave imaging spectroscopy. Click the title to read more.
251 Ionospheric Effects, Flare History, and Dick Donnelly
27 April 2015 by Hugh Hudson and Peter Gallagher
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Recognizing the world’s largest X-ray detector, its ionosphere. Click the title to read more.
250 RHESSI Detection of X-ray Emission from a Quiet-Sun Filament Eruption
13 April 2015 by Gordon Holman and Adi Foord
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A RHESSI X-ray flare is detected outside an active region. Click the title to read more.
249 Soft X-ray emission in kink-unstable coronal loops‎
30 March 2015 by Rui Pinto, Nicole Vilmer, and Sacha Brun
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Kinking flux ropes can create flare emission, but their detection may be deceptive. Click the title to read more.
248 Daily solar mm-observations at Aalto University Metsähovi Radio Observatory
16 March 2015 by Juha Kallunki and Minttu Uunila
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Systematic microwave and mm-wave solar observations from Finland. Click the title to read more.
247 Solar Physics during the March 2015 Solar Eclipse‎
9 March 2015 by Hamish Reid and Hugh Hudson
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A total solar eclipse is coming on 2015 March 20, a good opportunity for many observatories. Click the title to read more.
246 Glasgow Callisto and CMEless type II bursts
16 February 2015 by Peter Wakeford and Hugh Hudson
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The Glasgow Callisto telescope observes rare type II bursts without CME drivers. Click the title to read more.
245 Flare Heating by Mildly Non-thermal Particles
26 January 2015 by Jeffrey Reep
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Sorting out nonthermal distributions via HYDRAD models. Click the title to read more.
244 Above-the-Looptop Sources
12 January 2015 by Mitsuo Oka and Säm Krucker
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Electron distribution functions in coronal sources. Click the title to read more.
243 The IAU Solar Target Identifier - A Good Thing
29 December 2014 by Hugh Hudson and John Leibacher
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Standardized names for flares help a lot. Click the title to read more.
242 The Low-High-Low Starting Frequency Trend in Groups of Type III Bursts
23 December 2014 by Hamish Reid
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The type III radio bursts echo the pattern of flare energy release. Click the title to read more.
241 The Solar X-ray Limb II
24 November 2014 by Marina Battaglia and Hugh Hudson
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X-raying the mass distribution at the limb of the Sun: the true solar radius. Click the title to read more.
240 Back from the Far Side
17 November 2014 by Hugh Hudson and Greg Slater
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Active region 2192 has returned as 2209, still no CMEs. Click the title to read more.
239 A Record-Setting CMEless Flare
27 October 2014 by Sam Freeland and Greg Slater
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Active region 2192 produced many huge flares, but no CMEs. Click the title to read more.
238 The Formation of Kappa Distributions in Solar Flares
13 October 2014 by Nicolas Bian and Duncan Stackhouse
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Kappa distributions may form naturally in certain flare environments. Click the title to read more.
237 The Balmer continuum observed from IRIS!
29 September 2014 by Petr Heinzel and Lucia Kleint
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For the first time we have clear and direct observations of the Balmer continuum, from space. Click the title to read more.
236 Energy goes up... but doesn't come back down! Coronal heating?
22 September 2014 by Brian Welsch
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The Poynting flux responsible for coronal heating may have been spotted. Click the title to read more.
235 Which detectors can I use to analyze this flare?
15 September 2014 by Brian Dennis and Kim Tolbert
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A new Browser feature helps to answer this question. Click the title to read more.
234 RHESSI Resumes Observations
1 September 2014 by Albert Shih and Säm Krucker
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Back to normal, the anneal was a success. Click the title to read more.
233 EUNIS Sees Pervasive Faint Fe XIX Emission: Evidence for Nanoflare Heating
18 August 2014 by Jeff Brosius
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Faint emission at flare-like temperatures in a large coronal area. Click the title to read more.
232 Octupolar out-of-plane magnetic field structure generation during magnetic reconnection
11 August 2014 by Jan Graf von der Pahlen and David Tsiklauri
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A new characteristic marker of reconnection. Click the title to read more.
231 Flare Observed by a Dozen Instruments
28 July 2014 by Lucia Kleint and Kevin Reardon
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A wonderful flare observed by a grand set of instruments, including IRIS and IBIS. Click the title to read more.
230 The Redistribution of Nonthermal Electron Energy
14 July 2014 by Ryan Milligan
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Describing what we know about the dominant energy driving a solar flare. Click the title to read more.
229 RHESSI is Annealing Now
7 July2014 by Albert Shih and Martin Fivian
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A fourth repair job for RHESSI, smoothing out radiation damage. Click the title to read more.
228 Mysteries of Flare/CME Initiation
8 June 2014 by Shaun Bloomfield and Hugh Hudson
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Pairs of flares. Click the title to read more.
227 Solar Cosmic Rays, Neutrons, and Fermi Gamma-Rays
24 May 2014 by Hugh Hudson and Alec MacKinnon
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Exciting new solar high-energy observations. Click the title to read more.
226 The 3D standard model for eruptive flares‎
10 May 2014 by Miho Janvier
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Torus instability and slipping reconnection. Click the title to read more.
225 Microwave Images of a Single-Loop Flare: Observations and Simulations
28 April 2014 by Alexey Kuznetsov and Eduard Kontar
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A flare analysis making use of the new GX Simulator modeling software. Click the title to read more.
224 Abundances in Solar Flares
21 April 2014 by Harry Warren
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Wrinkles in the FIP effect for flares. Click the title to read more.
223 Homing in on Flare Energy
14 April 2014 by Hugh Hudson and Ryan Milligan
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Representing the spectral energy distribution of a flare. Click the title to read more.
222 Empirical Constructs and Cartoons
24 March 2014 by Forrest Mozer and Hugh Hudson
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How our mental images may relate to what's really going on. Click the title to read more.
221 Imaging Quasi-Periodic Oscillations in a Simple Flare‎
17 March 2014 by Zongjun Ning and Hugh Hudson
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Time-series imaging spectroscopy in a B8 flare. Click the title to read more.
220 A Wonderful Cycle 24 Flare
3 March 2014 by Säm Krucker and Hugh Hudson
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There have been quite a few Cycle 24 X-class flares, and this was one of the nicest. Click the title to read more.
218 Instantaneous Flare Properties
10 February 2014 by Hugh Hudson
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Let's look at the derivative. Click the title to read more.
217 Reflection of Coronal Global Waves
13 January 2014 by Ines Kienreich and Hugh Hudson
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A homologous series of global coronal waves reflects at a coronal-hole boundary. Click the title to read more.
216 Flare Coronal Rain
23 December 2013 by Hugh Hudson and Säm Krucker
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Thermal collapse in flare loops seen in a wonderful new way. Click the title to read more.
215 The HEROES Mission: High Energy Replicated Optics to Explore the Sun
16 December 2013 by Steven Christe and Albert Shih
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Focusing optics to explore the high-energy Sun. Click the title to read more.
214 CMEs on young, solar-type stars
9 December 2013 by Alicia Aarnio
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Stellar flares and CMEs behave like solar ones. Click the title to read more.
213 The 1859 Space Weather Event Revisited
25 November 2013 by Ed Cliver
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Assessing the greatest space-weather events over the centuries. Click the title to read more.
212 Hard X-ray Footpoint Asymmetry
7 November 2013 by Ya-Hui YANG
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The behavior of conjugacy in flare footpoints. Click the title to read more.
211 The Halloween Flares and Large-Scale Correlations
28 October 2013 by Richard Schwartz and Hugh Hudson
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Flares bunch up strikingly. Click the title to read more.
210 Scattering Polarization in Solar Flares
21 October 2013 by Jiři Štěpán and Petr Heinzel
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Linear polarization produced by anisotropy, rather than particle-beam impact. Click the title to read more.
209 The Flare that Time Forgot
13 October 2013 by Paulo Simöes and Hugh Hudson
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A long-forgotten Masuda flare reappears. Click the title to read more.
208 The Post-Burst Increase
30 September 2013 by Hugh Hudson
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Tutorial on flare thermal sources seen in microwaves. Click the title to read more.
207 Peristaltic Shocks: a model
16 September 2013 by Dana Longcope and Roger Scott
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Reconciling reconnection with high preflare coronal densities. Click the title to read more.
206 Negative Microwave Bursts
3 September 2013 by Victor Grechnev and Hugh Hudson
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Negative microwave bursts happen, in association with flares and "Hyder flares," and modern instrumentation makes them very interesting again. Click the title to read more.
205 Acceleration-region Densities
6 August 2013 by Säm Krucker and Marina Battaglia
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Independent constraints on the densities of ions and non-thermal electrons reveal bulk acceleration. Click the title to read more.
204 Implosion and Oscillation
29 July 2013 by Paulo Simões and Hugh Hudson
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The flare implosion originates in the lower atmosphere and involves GOES soft X-rays. Click the title to read more.
203 Minoflares
1 July 2013 by Iain Hannah and Hugh Hudson
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Earmarks of widespread energetic events in the solar atmosphere. Click the title to read more.
202 Mars Odyssey/HEND and RHESSI
9 June 2013 by Vadim Vybornov and Michael A. Livshits
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An event from far behind the solar limb, observed at Mars. Click the title to read more.
201 Hard X-rays in Descent
27 May 2013 by Aidan O'Flannagain, John Brown and Peter Gallagher
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A novel test of the thick-target model. Click the title to read more.
200 Too few? Too many?
13 May 2013 by Paulo Simões and Eduard Kontar
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Too few electrons in the footpoints; too many electrons in the corona. Click the title to read more.
199 A huge gamma-ray burst
6 May 2013 by David Smith and André Csillaghy
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A wonderfully bright gamma-ray burst at Z = 0.34. Click the title to read more.
198 Three-phase life leads to corpulent X-ray loops
15 April 2013 by Natasha Jeffrey and Eduard Kontar
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RHESSI observations explore structural changes in flaring loops. Click the title to read more.
197 Antipodal Flares
1 April 2013 by B. Pecos and B. Paul
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Flares on a solar diameter suggest a new subatomic particle. Click the title to read more.
196 Observational evidence for breakout reconnection
18 March 2013 by Henry Aurass and Gordon Holman
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Coronal particle acceleration marks the eruption of a SEE. Click the title to read more.
195 Burst-on-Tail (BOT)
4 March 2013 by Alex Struminsky and Ivan Zimovets
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A "Burst-on-Tail" (BOT) phenomenon. Click the title to read more.
194 Electron re-acceleration and HXR emission
18 February 2013 by Heather Ratcliffe and Marian Karlický
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Can wave-particle interactions solve the electron number problem?. Click the title to read more.
193 Passages of Electron Beams
11 February 2013 by Bin Chen and Tim Bastian
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New VLA capability for imaging spectroscopy shows several remarkable features of type III bursts. Click the title to read more.
192 Kappa Distribution
21 January 2013 by Mitsuo Oka
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A simpler function fits both thermal and nonthermal RHESSI spectral ranges. Click the title to read more.
191 Hard X-ray Spikes Observed by RHESSI
7 January 2013 by Jiong Qiu
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New software allows RHESSI to study rapid time variations. Click the title to read more.
190 Flare Productivity
27 December 2012 by Hugh Hudson and Lyndsay Fletcher
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An anomalous change in flare productivity per active region. Click the title to read more.
189 FOXSI Success
27 December 2012 by Lindsay Glesener and Säm Krucker
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The FOXSI rocket soars, and a flare occurs on schedule. Click the title to read more.
188 "Impulse Response Flares" and Gamma Rays
13 November 2012 by Stephen White and Hugh Hudson
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A simplifying paradigm may describe acceleration to the highest energies in flares. Click the title to read more.
187 Glasgow Callisto optimistic: first light comes in focus
29 October 2012 by Heather Ratcliffe and Eduard Kontar
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The Glasgow Callisto radio observatory is on line. Click the title to read more.
186 Photospheric Temperature Gradient
22 October 2012 by Martin Fivian and Hugh Hudson
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RHESSI observes the photosphere with exquisite precision. Click the title to read more.
185 Energy Partition in Large Solar Eruptive Events
5 October 2012 by Gordon Emslie and Brian Dennis
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Where the flare energy comes from, and where it goes to.. Click the title to read more.
184 New TGFs Found in the RHESSI Data
10 September 2012 by Thomas Gjesteland and Nikolai Østgaard
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RHESSI sees many, many gamma-ray flashes from lightning. Click the title to read more.
183 The RHESSI Flare Catalog
29 August 2012 by Jim McTiernan and Hugh Hudson
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The Catalog is a powerful and easy-to-use access tool for the RHESSI flare observations. Click the title to read more.
182 RHESSI Catches Gamma-Ray Bursts
15 August 2012 by Jakub Ripa
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RHESSI catches gamma-ray bursts, and they come in three flavors. Click the title to read more.
181 Dense Loop Flares
6 August 2012 by Jingnan Guo and Gordon Emslie
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Direct electron mapping teaches us about the structure of electron acceleration in flares. Click the title to read more.
180 The Slowest Flare
23 July 2012 by Sam Freeland and Hugh Hudson
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A flare with an exceptionally slow rise phase, more than 5 hours in GOES 1-8 A soft X-rays. Click the title to read more.
179 Dimmings and Sustained Gamma-Ray Events
25 June 2012 by Hugh Hudson and Nicola Omodei
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Coronal disruptions reveal themselves as depletions and gamma-ray emissions. Click the title to read more.
178 Flare Nimbus
14 June 2012 by Susan McKenna-Lawlor
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The Flare Nimbus, its history and significance. Click the title to read more.
177 RHESSI and the Transit of Venus I
1 June 2012 by Hugh Hudson and Martin Fivian
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RHESSI prepares for the June 5/6 Venus transit. Click the title to read more.
176 Time Profiles of Solar Flare Densities
21 May 2012 by Ryan Milligan and Michael Kennedy
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Density-diagnostic line ratios in EVE spectra. Click the title to read more.
175 Solar energetic electron events over one solar cycle
7 May 2012 by Linghua Wang
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The statistics of SEP electrons. Click the title to read more.
174 A Shocking Type II
30 April 2012 by Hazel Bain, Säm Krucker and Lyndsay Glesener
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The properties of global coronal waves sorted out. Click the title to read more.
173 RHESSI and IRIS
16 April 2012 by Hugh Hudson
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Flare gold at the foot of the rainbow. Click the title to read more.
172 A New Day Dawns
26 March 2012 by Dale Gary
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Soon, true microwave imaging spectroscopy. Click the title to read more.
171 An Fe Cascade
12 March 2012 by Hugh Hudson
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Iron everywhere in the EVE spectra. Click the title to read more.
170 Do slow waves trigger pulsations in two-ribbon flares? An observational search‎
27 February 2012 by A. Inglis and B. Dennis
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Slow waves, QPPs, and hard X-rays. Click the title to read more.
169 RHESSI's Tenth Anniversary
15 February 2012 by B. Dennis and R. Lin
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On RHESSI's tenth, a top-ten discovery list. Click the title to read more.
168 Supra-Arcade Downflows
23 January 2012 by S. Savage and D. McKenzie
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A re-interpretation of the famous SAD tadpoles. Click the title to read more.
167 Flare Observations of the EUV Continua
16 January 2012 by R. Milligan
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The flare EUV continua now routinely observed. Click the title to read more.
166 No Hard X-rays from Comet Lovejoy
19 December 2011 by H. Hudson and P. Saint-Hilaire
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An amazing sungrazing comet, but not detectable at high energies. Click the title to read more.
165 Modelling spatially resolved X-ray polarization
12 December 2011 by N. Jeffrey and E. Kontar
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Spatial distribution of X-ray polarization, and its implications. Click the title to read more.
164 Slowly but surely towards the huge amount of energy II
28 November 2011 by S. Kołomański and T. Mrozek
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Analysis of the huge energies of loop-top sources in flares. Click the title to read more.
163 X-ray and H-alpha Flare Impulses
14 November 2011 by K. Radziszewski and P. Rudawy
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Strikingly precise correlations of H-alpha kernels and hard X-ray bursts. Click the title to read more.
162 Slowly but surely towards the huge amount of energy I
31 October 2011 by Urszula Bąk-Stęślicka and Tomasz Mrozek, Sylwester Kołomański
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The energetics of "slow LDEs". Click the title to read more.
161 Quasi-Periodic Pulsations: Fermi/GBM Results
24 October 2011 by David Gruber and Pawel Lachowicz
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Dealing with red noise. Click the title to read more.
160 A Flare in 3D
10 October 2011 by Hugh Hudson and Juan Carlos Martinez Oliveros
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Solar astrometry in 3D. Click the title to read more.
159 Solar Max Arrives
28 September 2011 by Hugh Hudson and Richard Schwartz
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Seven X-class flares already in 2011. Click the title to read more.
158 Two-stage SEE Shows Reconnection
8 September 2011 by Yang Su and Brian Dennis
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Reconnection late in a flare. Click the title to read more.
157 Scattered Light: Inverse Compton Scattering and Coronal Hard X-ray Sources
17 August 2011 by B. Chen and T. S. Bastian
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Inverse Compton radiation - gaining momentum. Click the title to read more.
156 X-ray, EUV & WL emission heights observed by RHESSI & SDO
24 July 2011 by Marina Battaglia and Eduard Kontar
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A first - the relative height of hard X-ray and white-light flare sources. Click the title to read more.
155 Hard X-rays and Sympathy
13 July 2011 by Hugh Hudson
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A hard X-ray spike elicits a sympathetic response. Click the title to read more.
154 Suzaku Microflares
30 June 2011 by S. Ishikawa
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Microflares too have powerful particle acceleration. Click the title to read more.
153 Acceleration without Heating
13 June 2011 by G. Fleishman & E. Kontar
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Strong hard X-rays and weak soft X-rays - breaking the paradigm?. Click the title to read more.
152 DIY spectroscopy: Analyzing AIA diffraction patterns
30 May 2011 by C. L. Raftery & S. Krucker
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Imaging spectroscopy in the EUV, at AIA resolution. Click the title to read more.
151 EVE/ESP and the Neupert Effect
9 May 2011 by H. Hudson
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The Neupert Effect works, sort of, in a limb gamma-ray flare. Click the title to read more.
150 Decimetric pulsations and coronal X-ray sources
18 April 2011 by A. Benz, M. Battaglia, and N. Vilmer
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Radio pulsations may illuminate a strongly non-radial current sheet. Click the title to read more.
149 The Alfven Speed above a Sunspot, and Gamma-rays
12 April 2011 by H. Hudson and L. Fletcher
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Flare effects in sunspot umbrae. Click the title to read more.

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148 Slow Magnetoacoustic Waves in Two-Ribbon Flares
17 March 2011 by V. Nakariakov and I. Zimovets
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Wave dynamics explains arcade development. Click the title to read more.
147 First Sunquake of Solar Cycle 24 Observed by Solar Dynamics Observatory
7 March 2011 by A. G. Kosovichev
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An X-class flare - and a sunquake. Click the title to read more.
146 M is for Magnifique Part Deux
22 February 2011 by Steven Christe and Andrew Inglis
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A type II radio burst but no CME and introducing a new way to search for waves in SDO. (CORRECTION There is a CME!). Click the title to read more.
145 At last, the EUV Spectrum
8 February 2011 by Hugh Hudson
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The main flare radiated energy is not in the EUV. Click the title to read more.
144 Black and White Flares
24 January 2011 by Juan Carlos Martinez Oliveros and Charles Lindsey
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HMI sees a black-light flare (?). Click the title to read more.
143 The Flares of the RHESSI Monograph
11 January 2011 by Hugh Hudson and Gordon Emslie
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The top ten RHESSI flares thus far. Click the title to read more.
142 Brilliant Timing
20 December 2010 by Säm Krucker and Hugh Hudson
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Hinode and RHESSI observations strain the credibility of the thick-target model. Click the title to read more.
141 M is for Magnifique
6 December 2010 by Steven Christe and Andrew Inglis
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RHESSI and SDO see a remarkable flare. Click the title to read more.
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