RHESSI Science Nuggets in December, 2016

No. 288, “Statistical Link Between Electrons Emitting X-rays and Type III Radio Bursts,” by Hamish Reid and Nicole Vilmer: understanding the statistical links between type III bursts and hard X-rays.

No. 289, “Syrovatskii’s ‘Constant Density’ approximation,” by Hugh Hudson and Paulo Simoes. Remembering S. I. Syrovatskii, and noting that the relevance of his “constant density” approximation has been verified by modern high-resolution observations.

See
http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/RHESSI_Science_Nuggets

listing the current series, 2008-present, and

http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/nuggets/

for the original series, 2005-2008.

We publish these at roughly two-week intervals and welcome contributions,
which should be related, at least loosely, to RHESSI science.