3 papers
astro-ph.IM2025
Understanding Solar Flares and Energetic Events: Open questions, observational requirements, and instrumental needs over the coming decade
Malcolm K. Druett, Graham S. Kerr, Joel C. Allred +15
Solar flares are the largest energy-release events in the Solar System, allowing us to study fundamental physical phenomena under extreme conditions. Those include magnetic reconne…
astro-ph.SR2025
Solar Orbiter's 2024 Major Flare Campaigns: An Overview
Daniel F. Ryan, Laura A. Hayes, Hannah Collier +17
Solar Orbiter conducted a series of flare-optimised observing campaigns in 2024 utilising the Major Flare Solar Orbiter Observing Plan (SOOP). Dedicated observations were performed…
astro-ph.SR2025
Fe XVIII and Fe XX Forbidden Lines Observed by Solar Orbiter/SPICE
Peter R. Young, Andrew R. Inglis, Graham S. Kerr +2
The first simultaneous observations of the Fe XVIII 974.86 Å and Fe XX 721.56 Å forbidden lines from the Spectral Imaging of the Coronal Environment (SPICE) spectrograph on Solar O…