High-temperature flares observed in broadband soft X-rays |
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| Authors: | Howard A Garcia Patrick S McIntosh |
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| Institution: | (1) Space Environment Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Environmental Research Laboratories, 80303 Boulder, CO, U.S.A. |
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| Abstract: | Broadband soft solar X-rays monitored by the GOES satellites have been used to detect high-temperature flares (> 25 MK). The data suggest that there are two general categories of high-temperature flares: those that are intrinsically hot and recur repeatedly in particular active regions and those that show enhanced temperatures because of their proximity to the solar limb. Intrinsically hot flares associate with gamma-ray flares and impulsive hard X-ray flares. Hot flares show a small incidence with gradual hard X-ray flares, but those cases are either extremely intense flares or limb flares. The apparently hot flares occur near the visible limb, which suggests the strong thermal stratification of flare plasmas as demonstrated by over-the-limb events; even on the visible disk near the limb, the lower, cooler plasmas are somehow partially occulted. |
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