Physics
Scientific paper
Sep 1987
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987sici.symp....6n&link_type=abstract
In Alabama Univ., Huntsville. STIP Symposium on Physical Interpretation of Solar/Interplanetary and Cometary Intervals p 6 (SEE
Physics
Interplanetary Medium, Light (Visible Radiation), Light Emission, Solar Flares, Ultraviolet Radiation, Balmer Series, Embedding, Ribbons, X Ray Spectra
Scientific paper
The X13/3B flare of 25 April 1984, 0001 UT, was accompanied by intense white light emission that reached a peak power output approx 2x10 to the 29 erg/sec in the optical/near UV continuum; the total energy radiated in the continuum alone reached 10 to the 32 power ergs. This was the most powerful white light flare yet recorded, exceeding the peak output of the largest previously known event by more than one order of magnitude. The flare was a two-ribbon type with intense embedded kernels as observed in both Balmer-alpha line and Balmer continuum, and each of these flare ribbons covered separate umbrae shortly after the maximum of the event. The onset and peak of the white light emission coincided with the onset and peak of the associated E greater than 100 KeV hard X-ray burst, while the 1-8 angstrom soft X-ray emission reached its maximum 4 minutes after the peak in white light.
Grosser Hartmut
Kiplinger Alan L.
Neidig Donald F.
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