Aditya-L1 Detects Early Warning Signs of Solar Flares

Recently, scientists using India’s Aditya-L1 solar observatory identified small, short-lived brightenings in the Sun’s atmosphere that appear hours before major solar flares and cluster near the region where the flare subsequently erupts.

What Did Aditya-L1 Observe?

Researchers analysed solar flare events using simultaneous ultraviolet and X-ray observations from three Aditya-L1 payloads.

  • SUIT (Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope): Detected transient brightenings in the Sun’s lower atmosphere, particularly through its Mg II h filter.
  • SoLEXS and HEL1OS: Recorded corresponding X-ray emissions associated with energetic processes in the solar corona.

The clustering of these pre-flare events suggests that repeated small-scale releases of magnetic energy may progressively destabilise ....

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