Energetic Solar Electrons - Whistler Bootstrap, Magnetic Knots and Small-scale Reconnection

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Jun 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011iaus..274..178r&link_type=abstract

Advances in Plasma Astrophysics, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 274, p. 178-181

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Relativistic Electrons, Solar Flares, Knots, Reconnection

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The (near) relativistic electrons, emanating from the solar corona in long-lasting, gradual events, are generally observed at 1 AU as delayed vs the less energetic, type-III beams. The observations are consistent with the delayed electrons being energized along the stretched post-CME coronal field lines, when the tail of an anisotropic seed population, which is injected in conjunction to the observed radioheliograph bursts, interacts with the self-excited whistler waves (bootstrap mechanism). These bursts indicate efficient processes where suprathermal seed electrons are injected as a result of magnetic reconnection at the marginally stable coronal configuration left behind the emerging CME. The dependence of the bootstrap mechanism on the electron injection raises the general question of the MHD description and its deviation over the small electron skin-depth scale. The similarity between MHD and knot theories allows one to characterize any turbulent magnetic configuration through topological invariants, while deviation over electron skin-depth scale, characterized by the generalized vorticity, which is enhanced due to density inhomogeneity, creates the conditions for the potential injection sites.

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