Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

A circular white-light flare with impulsive and gradual white-light kernels

  • Q. Hao,
  • K. Yang,
  • X. Cheng,
  • Y. Guo,
  • C. Fang,
  • M. D. Ding,
  • P. F. Chen,
  • Z. Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02343-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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White-light flares are rare solar events entailing emission in the optical continuum. Here, the authors report a nearly circular white-light flare observed on March 10th 2015 that contains simultaneously both impulsive and gradual white-light kernels.