From: Hugh Hudson hhudson@ssl.berkeley.edu

New RHESSI Science Nugget

http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/Two_phases_of_X-ray_emission_in_a_solar_eruptive_flare

This Nugget asks an important question – can the early non-thermal phase of a solar flare, as found in the RHESSI data, be explained by Somov’s “Rainbow Reconnection Model”?