Announcing RHESSI Science Nugget No.238

"The Formation of Kappa Distributions in Solar Flares," by Nicolas Bian and Duncan Stackhouse. It turns out that a kappa distribution can arise naturally from Coulomb collisions, as in a coronal thick target.

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listing the current series, 2008-present, and

http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/nuggets/

for the original series, 2005-2008.

We publish these at roughly two-week intervals and welcome contributions, which should be related, at least loosely, to RHESSI science.