Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Oct 2003
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003a%26a...409.1107m&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.409, p.1107-1125 (2003)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Sun: Flares, Sun: X-Rays, Gamma Rays
Scientific paper
The aspect camera of the Soft X-ray Telescope (SXT) on Yohkoh provided the first systematic survey of white-light flares from an observatory in space. The observations were made in the Fraunhofer g-band at a pixel size of 2.46 arcsec and a typical sample interval on the order of ten seconds. A total of 28 flares with clear white-light signatures were detected, corresponding to GOES events down to the C7.8 level in one case. Above the X-class threshold, all 5 events observed by SXT were observed in white light, and the maximum average contrast observed was 30% relative to the pre-flare continuum brightness of the flare location. We have made comprehensive comparisons of Yohkoh soft X-ray and hard X-ray data for this list of flares. In addition we compare the properties of the WLF sample to a sample of 31 flares that showed no white-light emission. These comparisons show that while white-light continuum emission has a strong association with hard X-ray emission it is also strongly related to coronal overpressure, as determined from the soft X-ray spectrum, indicating a component with a thermal, rather than non-thermal origin.
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Hudson Hugh S.
Matthews Sarah A.
Nitta Nariaki V.
van Driel-Gesztelyi Lidia
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