The Solar Maximum Mission (SMM) has operated since 1980 with a package of instruments that cover the solar spectrum from optical to gamma-ray wavelengths. While these instruments were not specifically designed to gather data on flare energetics, the SMM can measure many of the terms in the energy budget of a flare that have not been possible to determine in the past, especially when SMM data are combined with complementary data from other spacecraft and ground-based observatories, as was done as part of the SMY. During the recent SMM workshops on solar flares, the energetics of the gradual phase of several well-observed flares were investigated. The results of these studies are reviewed in this presentation. The advances that have resulted from the SMM flare energetics studies are discussed in context of what still must be done observationally and theoretically to define the complete energy budget of a flare.
Energetics of the gradual phase of solar flares
Advances in Space Research ; 6 , 6 19
1986-01-01
Miscellaneous
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English
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