Plasma heating in the initial phase of solar flares

Details Plasma heating in the initial phase of solar flares Plasma heating in the initial phase of solar flares

Feb 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010iaus..264..282r&link_type=abstract

Solar and Stellar Variability: Impact on Earth and Planets, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium,

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Sun: Flares, Sun: X-Rays, Gamma Rays

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In this paper we analyze soft and hard X-ray emission of the 2002 September 20 M1.8 GOES class solar flare observed by RHESSI and GOES satellites, where soft X-ray emission precedes the onset of the main bulk hard X-ray emission by ~5 min. This suggests that an additional heating mechanism may be at work at the early beginning of the flare. However RHESSI spectra indicate presence of the non-thermal electrons also before impulsive phase. So, we assumed that a dominant energy transport mechanism during rise phase of solar flares is electron beam-driven evaporation. We used non-thermal electron beams derived from RHESSI spectra as the heating source in a hydrodynamic model of the analyzed flare. We showed that energy delivered by non-thermal electron beams is sufficient to heat the flare loop to temperatures in which it emits soft X-ray closely following the GOES 1-8 Å light-curve.

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