Fine Structure in Solar Flares

Details Fine Structure in Solar Flares Fine Structure in Solar Flares

Jun 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000apj...536l.105w&link_type=abstract

The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 536, Issue 2, pp. L105-L108.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Sun: Corona, Sun: Flares

Scientific paper

We present observations of several large two-ribbon flares observed with both the Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) and the soft X-ray telescope on Yohkoh. The high spatial resolution TRACE observations show that solar flare plasma is generally not confined to a single loop or even a few isolated loops but to a multitude of fine coronal structures. These observations also suggest that the high-temperature flare plasma generally appears diffuse while the cooler (<~2 MK) postflare plasma is looplike. We conjecture that the diffuse appearance of the high-temperature flare emission seen with TRACE is due to a combination of the emission measure structure of these flares and the instrumental temperature response and does not reflect fundamental differences in plasma morphology at the different temperatures.

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