Abstract
Solar flares emit electromagnetic radiation within a very broad range of wavelengths; in extreme cases from 0.002 Å (2 × 10-11 cm, 6.1 MeV) up to more than 10 km (106 cm, 30 kHz). A schematic summary of all these kinds of radiation is given in Figure 1, and examples of the flare development curves at different wavelengths are shown in Figure 2. This radiation may be continuous emission in some parts of the spectrum, line emission in others, or a combination of both.
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Švestka, Z. (1976). Introduction. In: Solar Flares. Geophysics and Astrophysics Monographs, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1459-5_1
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