Hard X-rays from Slow Flares

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Jun 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001ep%26s...53..581h&link_type=abstract

Earth, Planets and Space, Volume 53, p. 581-583.

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"Slow LDEs" are those for which the rise phase is slow, as well as the decay phase. Such flares follow the Neupert effect, which implies that the non-thermal energy release has a similar relationship to heating as in a normal impulsive flare. Based on a sample of 53 slow LDEs during the first nine years of Yohkoh observations, we find 19 for which substantial overlap occurs with BATSE hard X-ray observations. These events tend strongly to have extended hard X-ray emission even though their hard X-ray emission does not tend to be "impulsive" in the sense of rapid variation. The hard X-ray fluences for these 19 events correlate with the soft X-ray peak fluxes, implying strong non-thermal particle acceleration even for these relatively slow energy-release rates. These events often correspond to the occurrence of "supra-arcade downflows," a phenomenon consistent with the classical reconnection model for gradual-phase flare energy release. This correspondence suggests a close relationship, not depending strongly upon time scale, between large-scale reconnection and the acceleration of non-thermal electrons.

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