Analysis of some solar flares from optical, X-ray, and radio observations

Abstract

Using an improved isodensitometric technique it has been possible to study in great detail the photometric structure and the evolution of eight flares. A comparison has been made between the evolutive curves and the ones obtained from measurements of solar X-rays and radio fluxes at λλ 3·2 and 21 cm.A reduction of the flare areas (and of the emitted energies) before the flash phase and a continuous pulsation of the flare have been observed. Further it seems that the flares associated with radio bursts or X-ray events are those which show regions of a sufficiently high intensity, the emitting areas not being a very important parameter.The correlation in time between the various examined aspects of the AR seems to indicate that the sequence for the beginning of the different phenomena is, in general: optical flare, X-ray events, radio events.