Abstract
<i>Aims. <i/>We investigate whether the so-called kappa distribution, often used to fit electron distributions detected in situ in the solar wind, can describe electrons producing the hard X-ray emission in solar flares.<i>Methods. <i/>Using Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic imager (RHESSI) flare data we fit spatially- and feature-integrated spectra, assuming a kappa distribution for the mean electron flux spectrum.<i>Results. <i/>We show that a single kappa distribution generally cannot describe spatially integrated X-ray emission composed of both footpoint and coronal sources. In contrast, the kappa distribution is consistent with mean electron spectra producing hard X-ray emission in some coronal sources.
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