Abstract
When analyzing YOHKOH/SXT, HXT (soft and hard X-ray) images of solar flares against the background of plasma with a temperature T≃6 MK, we detected localized (with minimum observed sizes of ≈2000 km) high-temperature structures (HTSs) with T≈(20–50) MK with a complex spatial-temporal dynamics. Quasi-stationary, stable HTSs form a chain of hot cores that encircles the flare region and coincides with the magnetic loop. No structures are seen in the emission measure. We reached conclusions about the reduced heat conductivity (a factor of ∼103 lower than the classical isotropic one) and high thermal insulation of HTSs. The flare plasma becomes collisionless in the hottest HTSs (T>20 MK). We confirm the previously investigated idea of spatial heat localization in the solar atmosphere in the form of HTSs during flare heating with a volume nonlocalized source. Based on localized soliton solutions of a nonlinear heat conduction equation with a generalized flare-heating source of a potential form including radiative cooling, we discuss the nature of HTSs.
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