https://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php?title=Three_is_company&feed=atom&action=historyThree is company - Revision history2024-03-28T12:03:32ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.16.0https://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php?title=Three_is_company&diff=11029&oldid=prevSchriste at 17:53, 24 August 20182018-08-24T17:53:51Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[Category:Nugget]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">What stands behind this cryptic jargon? It is an abbreviation for "soft-hard-soft" and describes a feature in the time evolution of non-thermal flare spectra. It was first discovered by Parks & Winckler in 1969 and has been studied extensively since. In many flares, a hardening of the spectrum can be observed as the flux increases. A very nice picture illustrating this can be found in these earlier nuggets by Paolo Grigis and by Arnold Benz. In some cases, "soft-hard-harder" (SHH) is also observed; refer to this earlier nugget for a discussion of one such event.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">But back to SHS. The big question is now: Is this SHS phenomenon a feature of the particle acceleration mechanism, or is it instead caused by transport effects such as Coulomb collisions or an electric field? All previous studies have been made with full-sun spectra (no imaging), which are dominated by the footpoint emission at the relevant energies, so basically one has observed footpoint-SHS. RHESSI however provides the possibility of high-resolution imaging spectroscopy, so we can now analyze individual sources.</ins></div></td></tr>
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