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most citedThe Solar Orbiter Science Activity Plan: translating solar and heliospheric physics questions into action

112 citations · 501 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

Energy Evolution from the Chromosphere to the Heliosphere in the 2021 October 28 Solar Eruption

Katharine K. Reeves, Daniel B. Seaton, Cynthia Cattell +20

We perform a detailed study of the energetics for a well-observed solar eruption and flare that occurred on 28 October 2021. This event included a GOES class X1.0 flare, a global E…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 3 cited

Next-Generation Comprehensive Data-Driven Models of Solar Eruptive Events

Joel C. Allred, Graham S. Kerr, Meriem Alaoui +11

Solar flares and coronal mass ejections are interrelated phenomena that together are known as solar eruptive events. These are the main drivers of space weather and understanding t…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 17 cited

A multiple spacecraft detection of the 2 April 2022 M-class flare and filament eruption during the first close Solar Orbiter perihelion

M. Janvier, S. Mzerguat, P. R. Young +56

The Solar Orbiter mission completed its first remote-sensing observation windows in the spring of 2022. On 2/4/2022, an M-class flare followed by a filament eruption was seen both…

astro-ph.IM2023

The Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager (FOXSI)

Steven Christe, Meriem Alaoui, Joel Allred +26

FOXSI is a direct-imaging, hard X-ray (HXR) telescope optimized for solar flare observations. It detects hot plasma and energetic electrons in and near energy release sites in the…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 2 cited

Fundamentals of impulsive energy release in the corona

Albert Y. Shih, Lindsay Glesener, Säm Krucker +30

It is essential that there be coordinated and co-optimized observations in X-rays, gamma-rays, and EUV during the peak of solar cycle 26 (~2036) to significantly advance our unders…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 2 cited

The need for focused, hard X-ray investigations of the Sun

Lindsay Glesener, Albert Y. Shih, Amir Caspi +46

Understanding the nature of energetic particles in the solar atmosphere is one of the most important outstanding problems in heliophysics. Flare-accelerated particles compose a hug…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 15 cited

Source positions of an interplanetary type III radio burst and anisotropic radio-wave scattering

Xingyao Chen, Eduard P. Kontar, Nicolina Chrysaphi +7

Interplanetary solar radio type III bursts provide the means for remotely studying and tracking energetic electrons propagating in the interplanetary medium. Due to the lack of dir…

astro-ph.IM2023

Quantifying Energy Release in Solar Flares and Solar Eruptive Events: New Frontiers with a Next-Generation Solar Radio Facility

Bin Chen, Dale E. Gary, Sijie Yu +16

Solar flares and the often associated solar eruptive events serve as an outstanding laboratory to study the magnetic reconnection and the associated energy release and conversion p…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 1 cited

Observations of magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration locations in solar coronal jets

Yixian Zhang, Sophie Musset, Lindsay Glesener +2

We present a multi-wavelength analysis of two flare-related jets on November 13, 2014, using data from SDO/AIA, RHESSI, Hinode/XRT, and IRIS. Unlike most coronal jets where hard X-…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 3 cited

The Spectrometer Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX) on Solar Orbiter

Laura A. Hayes, Sophie Musset, Daniel M üller +1

The Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX) is one of the 10 instruments on-board the scientific payload of ESA's Solar Orbiter mission. STIX provides hard X-ray imaging s…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 9 cited

On the faintest solar coronal hard X-rays observed with FOXSI

Juan Camilo Buitrago-Casas, Lindsay Glesener, Steven Christe +23

Solar nanoflares are small eruptive events releasing magnetic energy in the quiet corona. If nanoflares follow the same physics as their larger counterparts, they should emit hard…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 29 cited

Simulations of radio-wave anisotropic scattering to interpret type III radio bursts measurements by Solar Orbiter, Parker Solar Probe, STEREO and Wind

S. Musset, M. Maksimovic, E. Kontar +9

We use multi-spacecraft observations of invididual type III radio bursts in order to calculate the directivity of the radio emission, to be compared to the results of ray-tracing s…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 23 cited

Connecting solar flare hard X-ray spectra to in situ electron spectra. A comparison of RHESSI and STEREO/SEPT observations

Nina Dresing, A. Warmuth, F. Effenberger +4

We compare the characteristics of flare-accelerated energetic electrons at the Sun with those injected into interplanetary space. We have identified 17 energetic electron events we…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 33 cited

STIX X-ray microflare observations during the Solar Orbiter commissioning phase

Andrea Francesco Battaglia, Jonas Saqri, Paolo Massa +34

The Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX) is the HXR instrument onboard Solar Orbiter designed to observe solar flares over a broad range of flare sizes, between 4-150 k…

astro-ph.SR2021

Constraints on the acceleration region of type III radio bursts from decimetric radio spikes and faint X-ray bursts

Sophie Musset, Eduard Kontar, Lindsay Glesener +2

We study the release of energy during the gradual phase of a flare, characterized by faint bursts of non-thermal hard X-ray (HXR) emission associated with decimetric radio spikes a…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 17 cited

FOXSI-2 Solar Microflares II: Hard X-ray Imaging Spectroscopy and Flare Energetics

Juliana T. Vievering, Lindsay Glesener, P. S. Athiray +7

We study the nature of energy release and transfer for two sub-A class solar microflares observed during the second flight of the Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager (FOXSI-2) sound…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 8 cited

Use of a ray-tracing simulation to characterize ghost rays in the FOXSI rocket experiment

J. C. Buitrago-Casas, S. Christe, L. Glesener +12

Imaging X-rays by direct focusing offers greater sensitivity and a higher dynamic range compared to techniques based on indirect imaging. The Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager (FO…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 112 cited

The Solar Orbiter Science Activity Plan: translating solar and heliospheric physics questions into action

I. Zouganelis, A. De Groof, A. P. Walsh +182

Solar Orbiter is the first space mission observing the solar plasma both in situ and remotely, from a close distance, in and out of the ecliptic. The ultimate goal is to understand…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 68 cited

Magnetic Reconnection During the Post-Impulsive Phase of a Long-Duration Solar Flare: Bi-Directional Outflows as a Cause of Microwave and X-ray Bursts

Sijie Yu, Bin Chen, Katharine K. Reeves +5

Magnetic reconnection plays a crucial role in powering solar flares, production of energetic particles, and plasma heating. However, where the magnetic reconnections occur, how and…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 23 cited

FOXSI-2 Solar Microflares I : Multi-instrument Differential Emission Measure Analysis and Thermal Energies

P. S. Athiray, Juliana Vievering, Lindsay Glesener +8

In this paper we present the differential emission measures (DEMs) of two sub-A class microflares observed in hard X-rays (HXRs) by the FOXSI-2 sounding rocket experiment, on 2014…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 52 cited

The Acceleration and Confinement of Energetic Electrons by a Termination Shock in a Magnetic Trap: An Explanation for Nonthermal Loop-top Sources during Solar Flares

Xiangliang Kong, Fan Guo, Chengcai Shen +6

Nonthermal loop-top sources in solar flares are the most prominent observational signature that suggests energy release and particle acceleration in the solar corona. Although seve…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 15 cited

Statistical study of hard X-ray emitting electrons associated with flare-related coronal jets

Sophie Musset, Mariana Jeunon, Lindsay Glesener

We present the statistical analysis of 33 flare-related coronal jets, and discuss the link between the jet and the flare properties in these events. We selected jets that were obse…

astro-ph.SR2018

Ion Traps at the Sun: Implications for Elemental Fractionation

Gregory Fleishman, Sophie Musset, Véronique Bommier +1

Why the tenuous solar outer atmosphere, or corona, is much hotter than the underlying layers remains one of the greatest challenge for solar modeling. Detailed diagnostics of the c…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 33 cited

Diffusive Transport of Energetic Electrons in the Solar Corona: X-ray and Radio Diagnostics

S. Musset, E. P. Kontar, N. Vilmer

Imaging spectroscopy in X-rays with RHESSI provide the possibility to investigate the spatial evolution of the X-ray emitting electron distribution and therefore to study the trans…