Using SDO’s AIA to investigate energy transport from a flare’s energy release site to the chromosphere

Context. Coordinated observations of a GOES B4.8 microflare with SDO’s Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) and the Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) on 2010 July 31 show that emission in all seven of AIA’s EUV channels brightened simultaneously nearly 6 min before RHESSI or GOES detected emission from plasma at temperatures around 10 MK.