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Survey on Solar X-ray Flares and Associated Coherent Radio Emissions

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The radio emission during 201 selected X-ray solar flares was surveyed from 100 MHz to 4 GHz with the Phoenix-2 spectrometer of ETH Zürich. The selection includes all RHESSI flares larger than C5.0 jointly observed from launch until June 30, 2003. Detailed association rates of radio emission during X-ray flares are reported. In the decimeter wavelength range, type III bursts and the genuinely decimetric emissions (pulsations, continua, and narrowband spikes) were found equally frequently. Both occur predominantly in the peak phase of hard X-ray (HXR) emission, but are less in tune with HXRs than the high-frequency continuum exceeding 4 GHz, attributed to gyrosynchrotron radiation. In 10% of the HXR flares, an intense radiation of the above genuine decimetric types followed in the decay phase or later. Classic meter-wave type III bursts are associated in 33% of all HXR flares, but only in 4% are they the exclusive radio emission. Noise storms were the only radio emission in 5% of the HXR flares, some of them with extended duration. Despite the spatial association (same active region), the noise storm variations are found to be only loosely correlated in time with the X-ray flux. In a surprising 17% of the HXR flares, no coherent radio emission was found in the extremely broad band surveyed. The association but loose correlation between HXR and coherent radio emission is interpreted by multiple reconnection sites connected by common field lines.

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  1. Institute of Astronomy, ETH Zürich, CH-8092, Zürich, Switzerland

    Arnold O. Benz, Paolo C. Grigis, AndrÉ Csillaghy & Pascal Saint-Hilaire

  2. University of Applied Sciences, CH-5210, Windisch, Switzerland

    AndrÉ Csillaghy

  3. Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232, Villigen, Switzerland

    Pascal Saint-Hilaire

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Benz, A.O., Grigis, P.C., Csillaghy, A. et al. Survey on Solar X-ray Flares and Associated Coherent Radio Emissions. Sol Phys 226, 121–142 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-005-5254-5

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