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Electron-Electron Bremsstrahlung Emission and the Inference of Electron Flux Spectra in Solar Flares
Eduard P. Kontar, A. Gordon Emslie, Anna Maria Massone +3
Although both electron-ion and electron-electron bremsstrahlung contribute to the hard X-ray emission from solar flares, the latter is normally ignored. Such an omission is not jus…
Non-thermal recombination - a neglected source of flare hard X-rays and fast electron diagnostic
John C. Brown, Procheta C. V. Mallik
Context. Flare Hard X-Rays (HXRs) from non-thermal electrons are commonly treated as solely bremsstrahlung (f-f), recombination (f-b) being neglected. This assumption is shown to b…
Stereoscopic electron spectroscopy of solar hard X-ray flares with a single spacecraft
Eduard P. Kontar, John C. Brown
Hard X-ray (HXR) spectroscopy is the most direct method of diagnosing energetic electrons in solar flares. Here we present a technique which allows us to use a single HXR spectrum…
Compton backscattered and primary X-rays from solar flares: angle dependent Green's function correction for photospheric albedo
Eduard P. Kontar, Alec L. MacKinnon, Richard A. Schwartz +1
The observed hard X-ray (HXR) flux spectrum from solar flares is a combination of primary bremsstrahlung photons with a spectrally modified component from photosphe…
Solar Flare Hard X-ray Spectra Possibly Inconsistent with the Collisional Thick Target Model
Eduard P. Kontar, John C. Brown
Recent progress in solar Hard X-ray (HXR) observations with RHESSI data and methods for spectral inversion allow us to study model-independent mean electron flux spectra in solar f…
Problems and Progress in Flare Fast Particle Diagnostics
John C. Brown, Eduard P. Kontar
Recent progress in the diagnosis of flare fast particles is critically discussed with the main emphasis on high resolution Hard X-Ray (HXR) data from RHESSI and coordinated data fr…