A solar burst with a spectral component observed only above 100 GHz during an M class flare

G. Cristiani, C. G. Giménez de Castro, C. H. Mandrini, M. E. Machado, I. de Benedetto e Silva, P. Kaufmann, M. G. Rovira

Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2008 · 20 citations · 30 references

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Context. Since the installation of submillimeter solar radio telescopes, a new spectral burst component was discovered at frequencies above 100 GHz, creating the THz burst category. In all the reported cases, the events were X-class flares and the THz component was increasing.

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