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Evidence that Synchrotron Emission from Nonthermal Electrons Produces the Increasing Submillimeter Spectral Component in Solar Flares
We investigate the origin of the increasing spectra observed at submillimeter wavelengths detected in the flare on 2 November 2003 starting at 17:17 UT. This flare, classified as an X8.3 and 2B event, was sim...
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RHESSI Observation of Atmospheric Gamma Rays from Impact of Solar Energetic Particles on 21 April 2002
The RHESSI high-resolution spectrometer detected γ-ray lines and continuum emitted by the Earth’s atmosphere during impact of solar energetic particles in the south polar region from 16:00–17:00 UT on 21 April 20...
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RHESSI Observation of Atmospheric Gamma Rays from Impact of Solar Energetic Particles on 21 April 2002
The RHESSI high-resolution spectrometer detected γ-ray lines and continuum emitted by the Earth's atmosphere during impact of solar energetic particles in the south polar region from 16:00–17:00 UT on 21 April...
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Gamma-Ray Line Observations of the 2000 July 14 Flare and SEP Impact on the Earth
The HXS and GRS detectors on Yohkoh observed the 14 July 2000, X5.7 flare, beginning at ∼ 10:20 UT, ∼ 4 min before the peak in soft X-rays. The hard X-rays and γ-rays peaked ∼ 3 min later at ∼ 10:27 UT. Solar γ-r...
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Limits on Radiative Capture γ-Ray Lines and Implications for Energy Content in Flare-Accelerated Protons
Measurements of radiative-capture γ-ray lines can provide information on both the energy content of nonthermal protons below 1 MeV and the temperature in the region where they interact. We have derived upper l...
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Solar-Terrestrial and Terrestrial Science
Ironically, one of the more predictable outcomes of a mission into new territory is the discovery of exciting science in places not targeted by the mission planners. Such was the case with the Solar Maximum Missi...
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Cosmic Studies
Prior to the launch of the Solar Maximum Mission (SMM), experimenters on the Hard X-Ray Burst Spectrometer (HXRBS) and Gamma-Ray Spectrometer (GRS) teams anticipated that their instruments would provide useful da...
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BATSE/OSSE rapid burst response
The BATSE and OSSE instrument teams have modified flight software to promptly (within 2 min of trigger) slew the OSSE detectors to burst locations determined on-board by BATSE. This enables OSSE to make sensit...
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Osse limits on pre- and post-burst emission
The existence of either pre- or post-burst emission can provide substantial new information about the burst source and its local environment. We have data from serveral events serendipitously in or near the OS...
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Upper limit on the steady emission of the 2.223 MeV neutron capture γ-ray line from the Sun
Data accumulated by the Solar Maximum Mission Gamma Ray Spectrometer (GRS) have been searched for evidence of the 2.223 MeV neutron capture line from the Sun, outside the times of γ-ray-emitting solar flares. ...
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Gamma-ray line emission from SN1987A
The gamma-ray spectrometer (GRS) on NASA's Solar Maximum Mission satellite (SMM) has observed a significant (>5δ) net line flux at ˜847 keV in the background-subtracted spectrum of SN1987A—accumulated between ...
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A 154-day periodicity in the occurrence of hard solar flares?
Since the launch of the Solar Maximum Mission (SMM) satellite on 1980 February 14, the Gamma-Ray Spectrometer (GRS)1 has been monitoring the Sun in the energy range 0.3–100 MeV. Because of its large geometric are...
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Spectral feature of 31 December 1981 γ-ray burst not confirmed
The emission lines reported at 400–500 keV in the spectra of γ-ray bursts1 have been interpreted as redshifted positron annihilation lines, and, together with the lower-energy cyclotron lines1, are the most direc...
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X-ray emission from γ-ray sources in the galactic anticentre region
An X-ray survey of three high-energy γ-ray sources in the galactic anticentre region has been conducted using the large area sky survey (LASS) instrument on HEAO 1. The sensitivity of this survey ≲0.5 Uhuru flux ...
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GX339–4: a new black hole candidate
THE large area survey instrument on HEAO 1 has observed that the galactic X-ray source GX339–4 (4U1658–48) varies on time scales from tens of milliseconds to hundreds of days. Its long term variability was kno...
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Discovery of two cosmic X-ray bursts in 1970
Two bursts of high-energy photons have been discovered during analysis of 2 1/2 years of data from NRL's solar X-ray detector on OSO-6. Both bursts were simultaneously observed by the OGO-5 hard X-ray spectrom...
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Experiment to detect Pulsed γ-Rays from the Crab Nebula
A BALLOON-BORNE experiment using a telescope sensitive to γ-radiation between 10 and 150 MeV was successfully flown on October 25, 1969, from Palestine, Texas, and was oriented to within 2° of the Crab Nebula....