This is a $330,224.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Montana State University to study the heating and cooling of solar flare loops and estimate the total energy used to heat these loops in a large sample of solar flares. The research will analyze observations from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), Hinode, and the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) missions. The goal is to quantify the energy input in solar flares and study how the flare heating energy and its temporal and spatial distribution is related to magnetic properties in active regions. This research aligns with the science goals of the SDO, Hinode, and RHESSI missions, as well as the Solar and Space Physics Decadal Survey.
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