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most citedThe Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package

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astro-ph.SR2026

Non-thermal Sources from Stereoscopic Hard X-ray and Earth-based Microwave Observations in a Data-Constrained Magnetohydrodynamic Simulation

Keitarou Matsumoto, Satoshi Inoue, Meiqi Wang +5

We analyze the X7.1 flare on 2024 October 1 from NOAA AR 13842 using hard X-ray (HXR) imaging, microwave observations by the Expanded Owens Valley Solar Array (EOVSA), and a three-…

astro-ph.SR2026★ 1 cited

Small-Scale and Transient EUV Kernels in Solar Flare Ribbons

Hannah Collier, Säm Krucker, Laura A. Hayes +3

Flare ribbons form when energy released by coronal magnetic reconnection is deposited in the low solar atmosphere, so by studying the dynamics of flare ribbons, one obtains an indi…

astro-ph.SR2026

Modeling brightness temperature of sunspots using ALMA single-dish observations

F. Matković, R. Brajša, A. O. Benz +5

We model sunspot brightness temperature in the wavelength range 0.3-10mm using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) single-dish measurements together with other…

astro-ph.SR2026

The Non-Eruptive Reconfiguration of a Quiescent Filament After a Nearby Active Region Emergence

James McKevitt, Louise Harra, Gherardo Valori +13

The unpredictability of solar filament eruptions presents major challenges for forecasting space weather, as such eruptions frequently drive coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that impa…

astro-ph.SR2026★ 1 cited

Quiet Sun impulsive events observed with NuSTAR during solar minimum

Sarah Paterson, Iain G. Hannah, Brian W. Grefenstette +6

The investigation of small-scale energy release in the Sun's atmosphere is important in understanding how the corona is heated. Previous work has been able to study small EUV and S…

astro-ph.SR2025

Radio, X-ray, and EUV signatures of internal and external reconnection of an erupting flux rope

Jana Kašparová, Jaroslav Dudík, Marian Karlický +5

We analyse imaging (EUV, X-ray) and spectral (radio, X-ray) data obtained by ground based and space instruments on board space missions both on Earth (Fermi, Hinode, Solar Dynamics…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

Spectral component imaging of solar X-ray flares

Muriel Zoë Stiefel, Paolo Massa, Alessia Guidetti +2

Solar hard X-ray observations provide diagnostics of the hottest plasmas and of nonthermal electron populations present during solar flares and coronal mass ejections. HXR images o…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

Superhot (> 30 MK) flare observations with STIX: Joint spectral fitting

Muriel Zoë Stiefel, Natália Bajnoková, Säm Krucker

Spectroscopic analysis of large flares (>X1) in the hard X-ray (HXR) range offers unique insights into the hottest (> 30 MK) flare plasma, the so-called superhot thermal component.…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 3 cited

Near-continuous tracking of solar active region NOAA 13664 over three solar rotations

I. Kontogiannis, Y. Zhu, K. Barczynski +6

Magnetic flux emergence and decay in the Sun span from days to months. However, their tracking is typically limited to about half a solar rotation when relying on single-vantage-po…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

Modeling brightness temperature of prominences on the solar disk using ALMA single-dish observations

F. Matković, R. Brajša, A. O. Benz +5

Prominences (PRs) are among the most common solar phenomena, yet their full physical picture, particularly their chromospheric mm emission, remains incomplete. The new Atacama Larg…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 6 cited

CoSEE-Cat: A Comprehensive Solar Energetic Electron event Catalogue obtained from combined in situ and remote-sensing observations from Solar Orbiter -- Catalogue description and first statistical results

A. Warmuth, F. Schuller, R. Gómez-Herrero +39

(abridged) The acceleration of particles at the Sun and their propagation through interplanetary space are key topics in heliophysics. Specifically, solar energetic electrons (SEEs…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

Enhancing Image Resolution of Solar Magnetograms: A Latent Diffusion Model Approach

Francesco Pio Ramunno, Paolo Massa, Vitaliy Kinakh +3

The spatial properties of the solar magnetic field are crucial to decoding the physical processes in the solar interior and their interplanetary effects. However, observations from…

astro-ph.SR2025

Euclid: Quick Data Release (Q1) -- Ultracool dwarfs in the Euclid Deep Fields

A. Mohandasan, R. L. Smart, C. Reylé +180

Ultracool dwarfs (UCDs) encompass the lowest-mass stars and brown dwarfs at the substellar boundary. These intrinsically faint objects are challenging to detect, but the wide cover…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 9 cited

A magnetic avalanche as the central engine powering a solar flare

L. P. Chitta, D. I. Pontin, E. R. Priest +17

Solar flares are the most powerful, magnetically driven, explosions in the heliosphere. The nature of magnetic energy release in the solar corona that heats the plasma and accelera…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 10 cited

New insights into the proton precipitation sites in solar flares

Andrea Francesco Battaglia, Säm Krucker

The Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectrocopy Imager (RHESSI) -ray observations of the extraordinary GOES X25 flare SOL2003-10-28T11:10 are revisited to investigate previously…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 13 cited

Using the STIX background detector as a proxy for GOES

Muriel Zoë Stiefel, Matej Kuhar, Olivier Limousin +4

Context. The Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-Rays (STIX) onboard Solar Orbiter was designed to observe solar flares in the X-ray range of 4-150 keV, providing spectral, tempor…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 1 cited

Observation of an Extraordinary Type V Solar Radio Burst: Nonlinear Evolution of the Electron Two-Stream Instability

Arnold O. Benz, Clemens R. Huber, Vincenzo Timmel +1

Solar type V radio bursts are associated with type III bursts. Several processes have been proposed to interpret the association, electron distribution, and emission. We present th…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 9 cited

Solar flares in the Solar Orbiter era: Short-exposure EUI/FSI observations of STIX flares

Hannah Collier, Laura A. Hayes, Stefan Purkhart +10

Aims: This paper aims to demonstrate the importance of short-exposure extreme ultraviolet (EUV) observations of solar flares in the study of particle acceleration, heating and ener…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 1 cited

Euclid: High-precision imaging astrometry and photometry from Early Release Observations. I. Internal kinematics of NGC 6397 by combining Euclid and Gaia data

M. Libralato, L. R. Bedin, M. Griggio +175

The instruments at the focus of the Euclid space observatory offer superb, diffraction-limited imaging over an unprecedented (from space) wide field of view of 0.57 deg. This e…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 8 cited

The observational evidence that all microflares that accelerate electrons to high energies are rooted in sunspots

Andrea Francesco Battaglia, Säm Krucker, Astrid M. Veronig +6

In general, large solar flares are more efficient at accelerating high-energy electrons than microflares. Nonetheless, we sometimes observe microflares that accelerate electrons to…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 7 cited

First joint X-ray solar microflare observations with NuSTAR and Solar Orbiter/STIX

Natália Bajnoková, Iain G. Hannah, Kristopher Cooper +5

We present the first joint spectral and imaging analysis of hard X-ray (HXR) emission from 3 microflares observed by the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope ARray (NuSTAR) and Solar Or…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 4 cited

High-Energy Insights from an Escaping Coronal Mass Ejection with Solar Orbiter/STIX Observations

Laura A. Hayes, Säm Krucker, Hannah Collier +1

Solar eruptive events, including solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), are typically characterised by energetically significant X-ray emissions from flare-accelerated ele…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 1 cited

Hard X-rays from the deep solar atmosphere. An unusual UV burst with flare properties

L. P. Chitta, I. G. Hannah, L. Fletcher +4

Explosive transient events occur throughout the solar atmosphere. The differing manifestations range from coronal mass ejections to Ellerman bombs. The former may have negligible s…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 2 cited

Calculated brightness temperatures of solar structures compared with ALMA and Metsähovi measurements

F. Matković, R. Brajša, M. Kuhar +6

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) allows for solar observations in the wavelength range of 0.310 mm, giving us a new view of the chromosphere. The measured…