Are solar gamma-ray-line flares different from other large flares?

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Gamma Ray Spectra, Solar Atmosphere, Solar Flares, Solar X-Rays, Comparison, Gamma Ray Spectrometers, Solar Electrons, Solar Maximum Mission, Solar Physics, Solar Protons, Spectral Correlation

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We reevaluate evidence indicating that gamma-ray-line (GRL) flares are fundamentally different from other large flares without detectable GRL emission and find no compelling support for this proposition. For large flares observed by the Solar Maximum Mission (SMM) from 1980 to 1982, we obtain a reasonably good correlation between 4-8 MeV GRL fluences and greater than 50 keV hard X-ray fluences and find no evidence for a distinct population of large hard X-ray flares that lack commensurate GRL emission. Our results are consistent with the acceleration of the bulk of the approximately 100 keV electrons and approximately 10 MeV protons (i.e., the populations of these species that interact in the solar atmosphere to produce hard X-ray and GRL emission) by a common process in large flares of both long and short durations.

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