AbstractThe Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) has been recording rotationally-modulated X-rays from solar flares since its launch on February 5, 2002. Its 9 grid pairs time-modulate the detected photon flux giving RHESSI spatial information on hard X-rays at 9 logarithmically-spaced angular scales ranging from 2.3 to 183 arcsec. Using the calibrated modulation profiles for a variety of flares, we present new information on the spatial profiles of the hard X-ray structures in flares. We find that the FWHM of cores of single-component flares range from 3 to 11″ in size. Most of the flares in this set show extended emission out to 2 to 3 times the radii of the cores, and these ‘halos’ contain up to 25% of the total flux.
Hard X-ray source profiles as determined by RHESSI
Advances in Space Research ; 32 , 12 ; 2477-2482
2002-12-19
6 pages
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English
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