Constraints on Stochastic Electron Acceleration Process from RHESSI Solar Flare Observations

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Dec 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011agufmsh51e..05c&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2011, abstract #SH51E-05

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Plasma Physics

[7509] Solar Physics, Astrophysics, And Astronomy / Corona, [7519] Solar Physics, Astrophysics, And Astronomy / Flares, [7554] Solar Physics, Astrophysics, And Astronomy / X-Rays, Gamma Rays, And Neutrinos, [7845] Space Plasma Physics / Particle Acceleration

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Bremsstrahlung hard X-ray (HXR) emission provides the most direct information for diagnosing the electron acceleration and transport processes in solar flares. HXR observations have indicated that the majority of nonthermal electrons are accelerated near the top of the flaring loop, as evidenced by the distinct coronal loop top (LT) source, and move downward along the loop to the footpoints (FPs). This can be naturally accounted for by the model of stochastic acceleration, in which electrons are scattered and accelerated near the LT region by plasma waves or turbulence. In this work, we aim to better understand the role of turbulence in scattering and accelerating electrons in solar flares based on imaging spectroscopic observations from the RHESSI satellite and theoretical modeling of the process of stochastic acceleration by turbulence. We show how the RHESSI observations can constrain some important characteristics of turbulence. In particular, we obtain the accelerated electron spectra from the LT source in the regularized electron maps, which is determined by the turbulence acceleration rate, and also obtain the escape time from the LT and FP spectral difference, which is related to the pitch angle scattering rate of electrons by turbulence. Furthermore, comparison of the electron spectra obtained from solution of the Fokker-Planck equation describing the acceleration process with the directly observed LT electron spectra in principle allows us to determine whether the required acceleration rate by turbulence is consistent with the scattering rate. We will present results from several RHESSI flares with different LT spectral hardness relative to the FPs and discuss the physical implication for the electron acceleration and transport processes.

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