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Modeling Images and Spectra of a Solar Flare Observed by RHESSI on 20 February 2002 |
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| Authors: | Sui Linhui Holman Gordon D. Dennis Brian R. Krucker Säm Schwartz Richard A. Tolbert Kim |
| Affiliation: | (1) CUA & Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, U.S.A.;(2) Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, U.S.A.;(3) Space Science Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, U.S.A;(4) SSAI & Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, U.S.A. |
| Abstract: | We have analyzed a C7.5 limb flare observed by RHESSI on 20 February 2002. The RHESSI images appear to show two footpoints and a loop-top source. Our goal was to determine if the data are consistent with a simple steady-state model in which high-energy electrons are continuously injected at the top of a semicircular flare loop. A comparison of the RHESSI images with simulated images from the model has made it possible for us to identify spurious sources and fluxes in the RHESSI images. We find that the RHESSI results are in many aspects consistent with the model if a thermal source is included between the loop footpoints, but there is a problem with the spectral index of the loop-top source. The thermal source between the footpoints is likely to be a low-lying loop interacting with the northern footpoint of a higher loop containing the loop-top source. |
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