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This paper analyzes hard X-ray radiation of solar flares detected by Konus-Wind and RHESSI spacecrafts. X-ray quanta are measured using high energy, time (Konus-Wind), and spatial (RHESSI) resolution. Spectra of accelerated electrons are calculated from the spectra of hard X-rays both via the forward-fitting method and the Tikhonov reconstruction method. The X-ray data for the solar flare of July 8, 2013, 0120:24 UT are analyzed. In Konus-Wind data the irregularities and inversions are detected in the energy spectrum. According to RHESSI data, the hard X-ray (HXR) energy spectrum is smoother, although it contains breaks. The X-ray energy spectrum determined by the forward-fitting method is hard at the peak of the flux, and the spectrum index is γ ≈ 3.5. Over time, the HXR spectrum is significantly softened, and the spectrum index increases to γ ≈ 7.5. X-ray time delays are determined by a correlation analysis of the time series of different energies. The time delay spectrum is U-shaped with a 47-keV break in the energy for the Konus-Wind data and 57 keV for the RHESSI data.
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The work of Charikov, Shabalin, Lysenko, and Ovchinnikova was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 17-12-01378. The work of Kuznetsov (the synthesis of radio data from the observations on the Nobeyama radioheliograph) was partially supported by the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 16-12-10448.
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Charikov, Y.E., Shabalin, A.N., Ovchinnikova, E.P. et al. Energy Spectra and Time Delays of Hard X-Rays of Solar Flares in Konus-Wind and RHESSI Experiments. Geomagn. Aeron. 58, 1050–1056 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793218080030
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