Takeo Kosugi

TL;DR: RHESSI as discussed by the authors is a Principal Investigator (PI) mission, where the PI is responsible for all aspects of the mission except the launch vehicle, and is designed to investigate particle acceleration and energy release in solar flares, through imaging and spectroscopy of hard X-ray/gamma-ray continua emitted by energetic electrons, and of gamma-ray lines produced by energetic ions.

TL;DR: The Hinode satellite as discussed by the authors is the successor to the Yohkoh mission, which aims to understand how magnetic energy gets transferred from the photosphere to the upper atmosphere and results in explosive energy releases.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify the reconnection region as the site of particle acceleration, suggesting that the basic physics of the magnetic reconnection process may be common to both types of flares.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors search for plasma ejections in eight impulsive compact-loop flares near the limb, which are selected in an unbiased manner and include also the Masuda flare, 1992 January 13 flare.

TL;DR: A 17 GHz radio interferometer dedicated for solar observations was constructed in two years at Nobeyama, Nagano as discussed by the authors, which consists of eighty-four 80cm-diameter antennas arranged in a tee-shaped array extending 490 m in east-west and 220 m in north-south directions.