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The First AGILE Solar Flare Catalog

Ursi A.
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Parmiggiani N.
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Messerotti M.
altro
D'Amico F.
2023
  • journal article

Periodico
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES
Abstract
We report the Astro-rivelatore Gamma a Immagini LEggero (AGILE) observations of solar flares, detected by the onboard anticoincidence system in the 80-200 keV energy range, from 2007 May 1 to 2022 August 31. In more than 15 yr, AGILE detected 5003 X-ray, minute-lasting transients, compatible with a solar origin. A cross-correlation of these transients with the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) official solar flare database allowed us to associate an intensity class (i.e., B, C, M, or X) to 3572 of them, for which we investigated the main temporal and intensity parameters. The AGILE data clearly revealed the solar activity covering the last stages of the 23rd cycle, the whole 24th cycle, and the beginning of the current 25th cycle. In order to compare our results with other space missions operating in the high-energy range, we also analyzed the public lists of solar flares reported by RHESSI and Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor. This catalog reports 1424 events not contained in the GOES official data set, which, after statistical comparisons, are compatible with low-intensity, short-duration solar flares. Besides providing a further data set of solar flares detected in the hard X-ray range, this study allowed to point out two main features: a longer persistence of the decay phase in the high-energy regime, with respect to the soft X-rays, and a tendency of the flare maximum to be reached earlier in the soft X-rays with respect to the hard X-rays. Both these aspects support a two-phase acceleration mechanism of electrons in the solar atmosphere.
DOI
10.3847/1538-4365/acd4b6
WOS
WOS:001022577100001
Archivio
https://hdl.handle.net/11368/3075301
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/scopus/2-s2.0-85164660118
Diritti
open access
license:creative commons
license uri:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
FVG url
https://arts.units.it/bitstream/11368/3075301/2/Ursi_2023_ApJS_267_9.pdf
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  • High energy astrophys...

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