Flare gamma ray continuum emission from neutral pion decay

Details Flare gamma ray continuum emission from neutral pion decay Flare gamma ray continuum emission from neutral pion decay

Feb 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992nascp3137..523a&link_type=abstract

In NASA. Goddard Space Flight Center, The Compton Observatory Science Workshop p 523-527 (SEE N92-21874 12-90)

Computer Science

Continuous Radiation, Emission Spectra, Gamma Ray Bursts, Gamma Ray Spectra, Gamma Rays, Pions, Radioactive Decay, Solar Flares, Solar Radiation, Solar Spectra, Bessel Functions, Photons, Proton Energy, Protons, Solar Atmosphere, Stochastic Processes

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We investigate, in detail, the production of solar flare gamma ray emission above 100 MeV via the interaction of high energy protons with the ambient solar atmosphere. We restrict our considerations to the broadband gamma ray spectrum resulting from the decay of neutral pions produced in p-H reactions. Thick-target calculations are performed to determine the photon fluences. However, proton transport is not considered. Inferences about the form of the proton spectrum at 10-100 MeV have already been drawn from de-excitation gamma ray lines. Our aim is to constrain the proton spectrum at higher energies. Thus, the injected proton spectrum is assumed to have the form of a Bessel Function, characteristics of stochastic energy at higher energies. The detailed shape of the gamma ray spectra around 100 MeV is found to have a strong dependence on the spectral index of the power law and on the turnover energy (from Bessel function to power law). As would be expected, the harder the photon spectrum the wider the 100 MeV feature. The photon spectra are to be compared with observations and used to place limits upon the number of particles accelerated and to constrain acceleration models.

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