energy-height relation for hard x-ray footpoint sources observed by rhessi

Energy-height relation for hard X-ray footpoint sources observed

by RHESSI.

TOMASZ MROZEK

ASTRONOMICAL INSTITUTE, WROCŁAW UNIVERSITY

The altitude of centroids (asterixs) above a reference level versus the energy of hard X-

rays. The power-law function fit is presented with dotted line.

2. METHOD

- Make images in the wide energy range divided into intervals of few keV, in steps of 1 keV.

- Determine positions of centroids

- Fit the power-law function:

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Aschwanden, M. J., Brown, J. C., and Kontar, E. P., 2002, Solar Phys. 210, 383

* C7.5

* N16W80

* NOAA 9825

Brown, J. C., Aschwanden, M. J., and Kontar, E. P., 2002, Solar Phys. 210, 373

3. RESULTS

• PseudoColor picture– the TRACE 171 Å image, obtained after the maximum; • contours – the TRACE 171 Å images obtained during the impulsive phase, the times

are given above each frame; • crosses – locations of centroids of hard X-ray sources, the times are the same as

above, brighter colours represent the higher energies; the solar limb is overplotted.

Relations made for consecutive 12s intervals covering the first, main peak.Time evolution is represented by the brightness. The first interval is the darkest one.

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Thick of the collisional-stopping region [km]

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Comparision between several models of density (Aschwanden et al. 2002) and densities obtained from RHESSI observations.

4. QUESTIONS

4. QUESTIONS

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