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First results from PADRE/MeDDEA: X-rays from a flare and its CME
Muriel Zoë Stiefel, Säm Krucker, Olivier Limousin +22
The MeDDEA hard X-ray spectrometer onboard NASAs PADRE CubeSat operates four flight-spare detectors from the Solar Orbiter/STIX instrument. This paper aims to evaluate the accuracy…
The Integrating Miniature Piggyback for Impulsive Solar Hard X-rays (IMPISH): a spectrometer for the GRIPS-2 balloon campaign
Reed B. Masek, William Setterberg, Dorcas Oseni +9
The Integrating Miniature Piggyback for Impulsive Solar Hard X-rays (IMPISH) is a piggyback mission originally designed for the second flight of the Gamma-Ray Imager/Polarimeter fo…
Optimized scintillation configuration for IMPISH hard x-ray detection
Dorcas D. Oseni, William S. Setterberg, Reed B. Masek +9
The Integrating Miniature Piggyback for Impulsive Solar Hard X-rays (IMPISH) is a solar X-ray spectrometer that features large-area scintillators, fast readout electronics, and goo…
A Modelling Investigation for Solar Flare X-ray Stereoscopy with Solar Orbiter/STIX and Earth Orbiting Missions
Natasha L. S. Jeffrey, Säm Krucker, Morgan Stores +9
The Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX) on board Solar Orbiter (SolO) provides a unique opportunity to systematically perform stereoscopic X-ray observations of solar…
The Compton Spectrometer and Imager
John A. Tomsick, Steven E. Boggs, Andreas Zoglauer +72
The Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) is a NASA Small Explorer (SMEX) satellite mission in development with a planned launch in 2027. COSI is a wide-field gamma-ray telescope…
The cosipy library: COSI's high-level analysis software
Israel Martinez-Castellanos, Savitri Gallego, Chien-You Huang +72
The Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) is a selected Small Explorer (SMEX) mission launching in 2027. It consists of a large field-of-view Compton telescope that will probe wit…
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…
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…
Particle acceleration in solar flares with imaging-spectroscopy in soft X-rays
Mitsuo Oka, Amir Caspi, Bin Chen +15
Particles are accelerated to very high, non-thermal energies during explosive energy-release phenomena in space, solar, and astrophysical plasma environments. In the case of solar…
Magnetic Energy Powers the Corona: How We Can Understand its 3D Storage & Release
Amir Caspi, Daniel B. Seaton, Roberto Casini +12
The coronal magnetic field is the prime driver behind many as-yet unsolved mysteries: solar eruptions, coronal heating, and the solar wind, to name a few. It is, however, still poo…
Improving Multi-Dimensional Data Formats, Access, and Assimilation Tools for the Twenty-First Century
Daniel B. Seaton, Amir Caspi, Roberto Casini +12
Heliophysics image data largely relies on a forty-year-old ecosystem built on the venerable Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) data standard. While many in situ measurements us…
COMPLETE: A flagship mission for complete understanding of 3D coronal magnetic energy release
Amir Caspi, Daniel B. Seaton, Roberto Casini +12
COMPLETE is a flagship mission concept combining broadband spectroscopic imaging and comprehensive magnetography from multiple viewpoints around the Sun to enable tomographic recon…
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…
Radio Studies of the Middle Corona: Current State and New Prospects in the Next Decade
Bin Chen, Jason E. Kooi, David B. Wexler +13
The "middle corona," defined by West et al. (2022) as the region between ~1.5-6 solar radii, is a critical transition region that connects the highly structured lower corona to the…
Frequency Agile Solar Radiotelescope: A Next-Generation Radio Telescope for Solar Physics and Space Weather
Dale E. Gary, Bin Chen, James F. Drake +4
The Frequency Agile Solar Radiotelescope (FASR) has been strongly endorsed as a top community priority by both Astronomy & Astrophysics Decadal Surveys and Solar & Space Physics De…
Observations of Thomson scattering from a loop-prominence system
Juan Carlos Martínez Oliveros, Juan Camilo Guevara Gómez, Pascal Saint-Hilaire +2
We describe observations of the white-light structures in the low corona following the X8.2 flare SOL2017-09-10, as observed in full Stokes parameters by the Helioseismic and Magne…
Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI)
Brian R. Dennis, Albert Y. Shih, Gordon J. Hurford +1
This paper describes the X-ray and gamma-ray imaging spectroscopy capabilities of the Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI). It also outlines RHESSI's major scient…
The Compton Spectrometer and Imager Project for MeV Astronomy
John A. Tomsick, Steven E. Boggs, Andreas Zoglauer +33
The Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) is a 0.2-5 MeV Compton telescope capable of imaging, spectroscopy, and polarimetry of astrophysical sources. Such capabilities are made p…
Probing solar flare accelerated electron distributions with prospective X-ray polarimetry missions
Natasha L. S. Jeffrey, Pascal Saint-Hilaire, Eduard P. Kontar
Solar flare electron acceleration is an extremely efficient process, but the method of acceleration is not well constrained. Two of the essential diagnostics: electron anisotropy (…
Diagnostics of Space Weather Drivers Enabled by Radio Observations
Tim Bastian, Hazel Bain, Bin Chen +6
The Sun is an active star that can have a direct impact on the Earth, its magnetosphere, and the technological infrastructure on which modern society depends. Among the phenomena t…
Astro2020 Science White Paper: Probing Magnetic Reconnection in Solar Flares - New Perspectives from Radio Dynamic Imaging Spectroscopy
Bin Chen, Tim Bastian, Joel Dahlin +9
Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental physical process in many laboratory, space, and astrophysical plasma contexts. Solar flares serve as an outstanding laboratory to study the m…
Evidence of Significant Energy Input in the Late Phase of a Solar Flare from NuSTAR X-Ray Observations
Matej Kuhar, Säm Krucker, Iain G. Hannah +15
We present observations of the occulted active region AR12222 during the third {\em NuSTAR} solar campaign on 2014 December 11, with concurrent {\em SDO/}AIA and {\em FOXSI-2} soun…
Exploring impulsive solar magnetic energy release and particle acceleration with focused hard X-ray imaging spectroscopy
Steven Christe, Samuel Krucker, Lindsay Glesener +37
How impulsive magnetic energy release leads to solar eruptions and how those eruptions are energized and evolve are vital unsolved problems in Heliophysics. The standard model for…
Hard X-Ray Emission from Partially Occulted Solar Flares: RHESSI Observations in Two Solar Cycles
Frederic Effenberger, Fatima Rubio da Costa, Mitsuo Oka +5
Flares close to the solar limb, where the footpoints are occulted, can reveal the spectrum and structure of the coronal loop-top source in X-rays. We aim at studying the properties…