Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
Nov 1981
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1981plap.rept..401s&link_type=abstract
In ESA Plasma Astrophys. p 401-404 (SEE N82-20030 10-88)
Physics
Plasma Physics
3
Bursts, Coronal Loops, Solar X-Rays, Stellar Models, Thermalization (Energy Absorption), Chromosphere, Conduction Electrons, Electron Plasma, Magnetic Field Configurations, Solar Magnetic Field
Scientific paper
Results for small loop thermal models of hard X-ray bursts are extended to large loops. In this model a magnetic arch with a coronal length of 45,000 km has the electrons near the top heated to temperatures above 1 billion K. The resulting conduction fronts which form are dominated by collisionless processes and travel down the arch to the transition region and chromosphere where they evaporate off part of the latter. This relatively cool material travels back up the loop and eventually quenches the source for energy injection times of order 10 sec. Most of the X-ray emission comes from the footpoints of the arch over most of the source lifetime and the spectrum is a power law with a typical spectral index of 3.0. Even though the efficiency gain in this model is only 2.8, it is much easier from the point of view of plasma physics to heat all the electrons in a plasma than to accelerate a substantial fraction of them.
Harmony D. W.
Smith Donelson F.
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