The Flare Emission of the May 4, 2022 Event and Its Millimeter Component

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Abstract

Based on observations at the RT-7.5 radio telescope of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University
at a wavelength of 3.2 mm (93 GHz), along with other ground-based and space instruments (Siberian
radioheliograph, Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), Metsähovi radio observatory), the origin of millimeter
radiation from a solar flare was investigated for the SOL2022-05-04T08:45 X-ray class M 5.7 flare. An
analysis of the time profiles of radiation in the X-ray and centimeter ranges showed that the millimeter emission
source is not associated with hot (5 × 105–107 K) coronal plasma. This is also evidenced by the estimate
of the sub-THz flux of radiating hot plasma according to the AIA/SDO data, which turned out to be much
less than the observed values. Indications were obtained of the development of thermal instability in flare
ultraviolet loops. The relationship between the millimeter emission of the flare and the heat source in the
solar chromosphere has been substantiated.

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V. V. Smirnova

Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: vvsvid.smirnova@yandex.ru
Nauchny, Russia

Yu. T. Tsap

Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: vvsvid.smirnova@yandex.ru
Nauchny, Russia

V. S. Ryzhov

Bauman Moscow State Technological University

Email: vvsvid.smirnova@yandex.ru
Moscow, Russia

G. G. Motorina

Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences; Ioffe Institute; Central Astronomical Observatory at Pulkovo of Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: vvsvid.smirnova@yandex.ru
Ondřejov, 251 65 Czech Republic; Polytekhnicheskaya, 26, St. Petersburg, 194021 Russia; St. Petersburg, 196140 Russia

A. S. Morgachev

Central Astronomical Observatory at Pulkovo of Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: vvsvid.smirnova@yandex.ru
St. Petersburg, 196140 Russia

M. Bárta

Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Author for correspondence.
Email: vvsvid.smirnova@yandex.ru
Ondřejov, 251 65 Czech Republic

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